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Tap into the fast-growing DCI opportunity and hel ...
By partnering with Ciena and Westcon, you can deliver the industry’s leading DCI solutions, helping you create new revenue stream ...

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Change is Good: How Ciena Services is evolving wi ...
From a dedicated and localized support team to an improved customer resource portal, Ciena's VP of Global Services, Greg Friesen, ...

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With big edge densification comes big metro respo ...
Ciena’s 8100 family is expanding in a big way by adding the 8190 for higher capacity aggregation. Ivana Lemos explains how you ca ...

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All the benefits of multi-vendor, converged netwo ...
The IP/Optical convergence trend is in full swing, yet there continue to be challenges on the network operations side. Lack of co ...

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What do DAA, Network Slicing, Scaling Optical Net ...
Learn about all that Ciena has planned for the upcoming SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2020 Virtual Experience and the forward-looking topic ...

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Things just got easier. Remove the guesswork and ...
A scalable, robust middle-mile infrastructure will be crucial to expanding broadband in rural areas. But how much bandwidth is ne ...

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My operational costs keep going up – how can I ma ...
Answer: Invest in products where you can, customize operations solutions where you must. Said differently, stop building custom t ...

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How the need for more and closer connectivity is ...
Emerging applications and the growing adoption of online behaviors are bringing new revenue opportunities and business models. Bu ...

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Why TLS/SSL encryption techniques are not enough ...
If your in-flight data encryption strategy relies on TLS and SSL, you may not be as secure as you think. That's because these tec ...

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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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CTO Notes from the Road: 3 take-aways from custom ...
Anup Changaroth of Ciena’s CTO Office in APAC highlights a few insights from Ciena’s recent six-country roadshow he participated ...

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The big easy – how Colt scores as the most custom ...
It still feels incredible how life suddenly became very different for everyone, and how people quickly changed the way they work. ...

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The Digital Telco: Leveraging transformation to i ...
In the third and final blog of our series focusing on the network modernisation and transformation journey communications service ...

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One year of Programmable 400G: Insights into how ...
It has been one year since we started shipping our WaveLogic Ai coherent optical technology! Ciena’s Helen Xenos takes a moment t ...

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New contenders join the race for lowest cost and ...
With all the buzz around 800G and 400ZR in the market, you might assume only large cloud and content providers see a need for the ...

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Ping is King: Why latency matters as much as netw ...
Ivan Polizzi, Ciena’s Regional Managing Director of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific, details why network latency is as critic ...

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Why Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) is critical for ...
To achieve a leadership position in the emerging 5G market, you need to upgrade transport infrastructure at hundreds or thousands ...

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Ciena joins Telecom Infra Project’s Disaggregated ...
Ciena has joined the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG) initiative. In addition, Ciena’s SAOS 10. ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Guide to improving ...
Over the past several years, coherent technology advancements have enabled providers to meet increasing capacity demands while co ...

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How Service Electric Cablevision is scaling up it ...
To provide their communities and customers with the level of connectivity needed for today’s pace of business and life, Service E ...

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Get Southeast Asian data centers up and running f ...
With the demand for online services surging throughout Southeast Asia, new data centers and network connectivity are being built ...

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Colt’s transatlantic 1.2Tb/s transmission is a th ...
Colt has achieved 1.2Tb/s per wavelength on its Grace Hopper transatlantic cable by adopting Ciena’s WL6e coherent optics innovat ...

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From natural disasters to cyber threats: The chal ...
Ivan Polizzi, Ciena’s Regional Managing Director of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific details the challenges Australasian s ...

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The next generation of HPC networks: how to adapt ...
How does the next generation of optical networking technologies allow high-performance computing (HPC) clusters to connect with p ...