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Winds of Change in Smart Cities?
Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda reflects on the evolution in what he’s hearing from CIOs and others in the smart city movement.
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | Februar ...
This week, we're discussing Pluggables and their role in coherent technology evolution, helping you understand why CDC with flexi ...
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | Novembe ...
This week, we're bringing 100GbE closer to reality, giving you a rare glimpse into Ciena’s early days, and helping you pick the r ...
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | August ...
This week, we're answering questions about the future of 5G, explaining where we are (and where we're going) on the road to auton ...
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Updated: 800G – nothing but the facts
If you have been following Ciena, you know 800G adoption is underway. With that comes a lot of interest and questions. Ciena’s He ...
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800G adoption soars in 2020
With the industry’s first programmable 800G solution in market this year, how fast have customers been embracing it? Ciena’s Hele ...
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | July 7, ...
This week, were busting a few myths, sharing 8 incredible facts you didn’t know about submarine networking, and sharing a tale of ...
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Spotlight on 5G midhaul networks
In the second part of Brian Lavallée’s series on xHaul networks, he takes a look at midhaul networks, what they are, and how they ...
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | June 30 ...
This week, we're reflecting on the smart city movement, discussing what lemon pie has to do with next-gen optical network archite ...
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Sharing Bandwidth with the Neighbors
Ciena's Wayne Hickey explains how Cable Operators can reduce sharing sizes to increase overall customer quality of experience.
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | March 1 ...
This week, we're discussing fiber densification without complexity, celebrating coherent optical turning 10, and taking our partn ...
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Celebrating the Rise of 400G
The era of 400G was in full force at OFC and we took some time to celebrate this milestone. Here are what our customers have to s ...
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Enabling Africa’s digital economy
Africa leads the globe in international bandwidth growth. With the fastest growth rate over the last four years and eight new cab ...
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Listen to understand, then act together
How we are using our employee surveys at Ciena to continue conversations and drive actions.
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What is Bandwidth on Demand?
Today, connectivity services are a mostly static experience, meaning that once the endpoints and service attributes are defined, ...
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The History of Carrier Ethernet
Ethernet has been around for decades and has claimed the title of the superior Local Area Networking (LAN) technology of choice.
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | October ...
This week, we're introducing you to the people who brought 400G to optical, sharing 7 key considerations when involving your R&E ...
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The future of PON at the edge
Omdia analyst Julie Kunstler on why PON’s role is expanding beyond traditional residential deployments to support convergence nee ...
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The need for universal aggregation
ABI Research’s Dimitris Mavrakis looks at why concepts like Universal Aggregation are necessary for service providers to continue ...
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | April 0 ...
This week, we're discussing how change management is the key to successful cable infrastructure modernization, sharing how 5G is ...
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4 Things We Learned at #OFC17
From 400G to DCI to software-enabled optical networks, OFC'17 was full of news and innovation. We surveyed our experts for their ...
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Standardizing Open Submarine Cables
Ciena’s Brian Lavallée sits down with our resident submarine networking expert, Priyanth Mehta, to get his view on the soon to be ...
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Why are TDM services still around?
TDM services are any service sold by operators to enterprises large and small, that uses a time-based method to multiplex service ...
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100G Access Article | Ciena
With Ciena’s new 5132 Router we will bring 100Gb/s service, demarcation, and coherent access to the business and wholesale enviro ...