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A Guide to Avoiding Automation Islands
Autonomous networking is all the rage. Networking vendors are touting their automation visions, and service providers are creatin ...
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A Guide to Avoiding Automation Islands
Autonomous networking is all the rage. Networking vendors are touting their automation visions, and service providers are creatin ...
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A Guide for Delivering Profitable DCI Services
Today’s cloud providers face the challenge of helping their customers migrate enormous amounts of content for data center back-up ...
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A DevOps Primer for Service Providers: 10 Key Tec ...
Looking to adopt DevOps concepts in your network? Ciena's Kevin Wade has 10 key technologies and tools you need to be familiar wi ...
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A DevOps Checklist for Traditional Service Provid ...
Can traditional services providers successfully implement a DevOps approach? There are five critical steps that need to be taken ...
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A day in Hanover with Building STEPS
Ciena hosted a group of high school students from Building STEPS at our office in Hanover to show them what it can look like to h ...
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A connection for the future
Ciena’s work with Zayo serves as an ideal model for providers looking to extend their networks and plan for the future.
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A closer look at CenturyLink’s Programmable Servi ...
Recep Ozdag details the work the Blue Planet team is doing with CenturyLink as part of their Programmable Services Backbone (PSB) ...
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A (Miserable) Day in the Life of a Submarine Fiel ...
Meet Erik. Erik is a submarine network field technician. Erik has a tough job. Let's look at all the challenges he faces in tryin ...
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9 questions answered about Ciena Blue Planet
Ciena answers 9 questions about its Blue Planet
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9 Bandwidth Facts from Mary Meeker's 2015 Interne ...
Nine facts and charts we've pulled from from Mary Meeker's 2015 report that focus specifically on bandwidth and Internet consumpt ...
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800G is here: pushing the boundaries of what your ...
The wait is over. 800G has been tested and proven in real production networks with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme. Learn about how t ...
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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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8 Warning Signs You Need A Better Data Center Int ...
These data centers are the heart of our In this post, Ciena's DCI expert outlines 8 key reasons it might be time for you to revis ...
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8 top technologies for modern DCI networks
As the number of data centers has grown and the DCI market has evolved, network operators have had to deploy new capacity rapidly ...
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8 Slides from Mary Meeker’s 2016 internet and ban ...
Richard van der Draay reviews some of the findings, focusing mainly on bandwidth growth and usage.
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8 Incredible Facts You Didn’t Know About Submarin ...
Ciena's subsea expert Brian Lavallée tests your knowledge of the world of submarine cable networks with this list of facts and fi ...
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7 Things to Look for When Choosing a DCI Solution
The stakes are high when it comes to securing the right DCI solution. Losing access to a data center can be disastrous, and one m ...
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7 Steps to Big Data Analytics and AI
Operators are turning to big data tools and analytics to analyze the vast amounts of information they’re accumulating in data lak ...
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7 Reasons Why You Need Business Ethernet Services ...
7 reasons why integrating business Ethernet services into your portfolio could be a lucrative new opportunity while providing an ...
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7 key takeaways from #MWC17
Our Ciena team spent the week talking to customers, speaking at sessions, and on the exhibit floor showing off our latest tech to ...
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7 key considerations when evolving your R&E N ...
Ciena's Vini Santos shares a list of fundamental pillars to consider in R&E network evolution planning. These pillars are importa ...
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7 key attributes for the new network edge
Gradual technology evolution won’t work for the multi-access edge, where new IoT apps, cloud services, and 5G services are creati ...
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7 invaluable ways to keep your submarine network ...
How can real-time analytics unlock new benefits to help you build and manage an ultra-resilient submarine network that exceeds yo ...