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Standards Update: 200GbE, 400GbE and Beyond with ...
Ciena's Helen Xenos talks to Pete Anslow, our Ethernet standards guru, about the newly approved IEEE standards for 200GbE and 400 ...

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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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Why services are key to enabling open, scalable a ...
CSPs are evolving their network and RAN architectures as part of their 5G evolution, shifting to open, virtualized, automated, an ...

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Ciena's Blue Planet and ONAP: Embracing Openness ...
Ciena has officially joined the Linux Foundation's Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) project. Nirav Modi reporting from ...

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Does your enterprise lack the infrastructure nece ...
Daniele Loffreda explains what you need to consider when looking to use new artificial intelligence and machine learning technolo ...

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Career insights: From intern to leader, Pradap sh ...
Pradap Rajagopal began his career as an intern and has grown his experience in engineering and sales over the years. Now, he emba ...

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Empowering underserved students with digital skil ...
Ciena has committed $10 million over five years towards initiatives that aim to unlock new opportunities through its Digital Incl ...
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PTC'15: Ciena’s newest 100G tech further extends ...
Ciena has unveiled new capabilities for its GeoMesh submarine networks solution that further extends the capacity and distance ca ...

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How to build a sustainable, next-generation broad ...
Broadband is now everywhere, so cost-effective and sustainable network rollouts are a non-negotiable requirement. The good news i ...
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The 8700 Strikes Again: Two New Innovation Awards ...
Ciena’s new 8700 Packetwave Platform strikes again, back in the news after receiving two new industry innovation awards.

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5 awesome new technologies you’ll see on the Cien ...
Next week is the OFC’17 Conference in Los Angeles, and Ciena is bringing our Ciena Innovation Lab filled with all the newest tech ...

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Preparing coherent pluggables for prime time: pra ...
Through continued innovation, the use of coherent optical technology has expanded to support new networking applications and in n ...

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Five K-12 Trends That Will Make Life Interesting ...
A new year and a new administration meets a K-12 technology evolution that is rolling along full steam. Will there be changes tha ...
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DCI for Media – Interconnecting Manchester to sup ...
Colin Sempill, Managing Director at SSE Enterprise Telecoms, talks about how the media sector is undergoing a massive restructuri ...

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Grab your Guitars and Gigabits: It’s Time for Pac ...
Back by popular demand it’s Ciena’s Packet Networking Summer Camp, Music Camp edition. 4 Live Webinars and 3 Ciena experts make f ...

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Expanding business models of managed wave service ...
It goes without saying that no other method of network transport has ever surpassed the speed and performance that is delivered o ...

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Evolving towards multi-service enterprise edge co ...
What are the key trends are driving the need to move applications, content, and data closer to enterprise users? Ciena's Tushar J ...

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Keep ahead of demand with PlannerPlus—another win ...
Hoping for a way to build out network capacity incrementally to get the most return from capex as soon as possible? Marie Fiala e ...
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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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What’s new from Ciena in optical? The breadth of ...
Once again Ciena is breaking barriers across both performance and footprint-optimized coherent optics, learn about our latest opt ...

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Ciena unveils Liquid Spectrum: The future of soft ...
For all the “agile” innovation over the last decade, today's optical networks are still predominantly static. This changes with C ...

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Realizing the Digital Age: Why connecting the pla ...
Most of us share the firmly-held belief that by connecting the planet we will truly transform the world and improve both producti ...

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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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Ciena unveils new 6500 T-Series platform with 24 ...
Ciena today unveiled Ciena 6500 T-Series, a new higher density version of our cornerstone 6500 Packet Optical Platform, providing ...