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Traveling Farther Just Got Smarter with 300G 8QAM ...

Ciena, CANARIE and StarLight collaborate on a 300G trail over a live research network using 8QAM modulation.

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Trends and Insights from Heavy Reading's 5G Netwo ...

Heavy Reading recently published its 5G Network Strategies Operator Survey results. Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna digs into the num ...

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Two services to drive more performance from the n ...

Ciena's Joe Frendo highlights two performance-enhancing measures that should become routine best practices in your network lifecy ...

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Two tools to help visualize and simplify your dat ...

Amidst the rising complexity of networks, and influx of data, service providers are striving to keep operational complexity under ...

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U.S. broadband funding: Off to the races

The distribution of billions of dollars in U.S. federal funds towards broadband infrastructure has begun. Ciena’s Mitch Simcoe hi ...

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Uncovering the path to 5G connectivity

The race to deliver new, high value 5G services is all about how quickly you can evolve your existing 4G infrastructure into a sc ...

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Uncovering the path to 5G connectivity: part 2

Regardless where you may be in your 4G to 5G evolution journey, the huge expected growth in connected devices, data rates, and da ...

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Understanding the differences between virtual rea ...

Ciena's Loudon Blair explains what virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality are in relation to each other, as well a ...

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Understanding why CDC with flexible grid is so po ...

As Colorless-Directionless-Contentionless (CDC) with flexible grid (CDC-F) is becoming a reality for some network operators do yo ...

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Unearthing New Ways to Partner

Sondra Smith of Level 3 details the Giving Garden project undertaken by an enthusiastic team of volunteers, the Level 3 Foundatio ...

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Unifying legacy and modern packet-based services

Within the last decade, TDM to IP modernization is no longer a question of “if” but rather “when”, as converging legacy and moder ...

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Unique insights into your submarine network

What if cable operators could leverage software-based advancements to improve the operation and maintenance of their submarine ne ...

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Universal aggregation for Cable MSOs

In the second part of Wayne Hickey’s series on universal aggregation, he takes a look at Cable MSO networks, what they are, and h ...

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Universal aggregation for service providers

In the first two installments in this three-part series on universal aggregation, we looked at Mobile Network Operator (MNO) and ...

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Universal aggregation for wholesale network opera ...

Not sure what MNVO, MNVA, MVNE, or MNO wholesale is? How should MNOs and MNVx alike sell converged network services on a common t ...

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Unleash a full spectrum of submarine network serv ...

Our latest eBook helps you to better understand Spectrum Sharing so you can make more informed business and technology decisions.

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Unlocking the MACsec Puzzle

Is your network secure? With 10’s of millions of cyber attacks per day are you sure? Ciena’s Wayne Hickey discusses the fundament ...

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Unlocking your access fiber with universal aggreg ...

In the second and final part of Charles Ufongene’s series on Universal Aggregation, he takes a look at Operational Expense (OPEX) ...

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Up your IQ: Top 3 signs it’s time to deploy SDN a ...

Get up-to-speed on the Essentials of NFV and SDN with two experts from Ciena's Blue Planet team, and in additional you'll get a f ...

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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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Upskilling staff through disruptive times

As enterprises change how they architect networks, they must train staff. Everyone involved—vendors, partners, enterprises—must p ...

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Upskilling staff through disruptive times

As enterprises change how they architect networks, they must train staff. Everyone involved—vendors, partners, enterprises—must p ...

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Using “The 3 V’s of Automation” to maximize autom ...

For traditional Communications Service Providers (CSPs), the barriers to applying automation are coming down faster than ever bef ...

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Utilities are modernizing – here are three conver ...

Ciena's Malcolm Loro gives three recurring challenges he's hearing from Utilities providers as they look to modernize their techn ...

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