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MEF16: We have a winner!

Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet division details the multi-vendor Proof of Concept demo the team conducted with CenturyLink and ...

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5G on stage in Barcelona

The dynamic mobile networking industry will converge in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress (MWC) from February 25-28 to showcase ...

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Leading as your true self

In honor of Pride Month, Nicky Martin reflects on being a role model for others by being her true self at work and in every aspec ...

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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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What is Fiber Densification?

There is a new term that is increasingly cropping up in networking conversations: densification. Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains wha ...

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Reaching your career potential

As an experienced leader and professional, Kailem Anderson, VP, Portfolio and Engineering, reflects on his career journey and pro ...

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Ciena unveils WaveLogic Ai: Massive scale and aut ...

Ciena has unveiled WaveLogic Ai, our next generation WaveLogic coherent optical chipset. WaveLogic Ai delivers a combination of s ...

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Shannon’s Limit, or Opportunity?

There’s a looming limit to how many bits can be crammed into an optical fiber, known as the Shannon Limit. Ciena's Brian Lavallée ...

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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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SD-WAN: Threat or Opportunity?

Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet team says SD-WAN in its purest form can be considered a threat to a service provider's traditio ...

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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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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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Because you asked. Adaptive IP.

Ciena’s Scott McFeely explains how Adaptive IP is delivering IP differently by leveraging automation, openness, and simplicity to ...

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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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From Land to Sea to Cloud

It’s projected that Internet Content Providers will soon account for the majority of submarine traffic in all regions of the worl ...

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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 ...

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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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One PON to rule them all?

It seems like every networking article in the history of the tech world is talking about the exponential increase in bandwidth de ...

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Navigating vendor equipment swaps: Minimizing ris ...

Vendor equipment swaps are typically complex from a technical as well as an operational standpoint due to the need to ensure netw ...

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Women@Ciena cook for heart health

During International Women’s Day, Ciena hosted Chef Stephanie from The American Heart Association for a virtual cooking segment a ...

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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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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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Cables Network Automation Article | Ciena

Want to hear directly from cable executives about what is driving their network automation strategies? Broadband Success Partners ...

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What’s making the cloud so edge-y?

A new generation of cloud-native applications are arriving that are more compute-intensive and latency-sensitive. Learn how the m ...

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