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Moving fast and maximising revenues in the high-s ...
How operators can transform their networks and organisations to bring new 10G, 100G, and 100G+ optical services to market faster ...
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CenturyLink announces network virtualization plan ...
Ciena's Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator is a key part of CenturyLink’s plan to virtualize 40% of its global IP core network location ...

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Q&A with Sven Freudenfeld of Lanner: Ciena’s ...
Ciena’s Brian Lavallée talks with Sven Freudenfeld of Lanner, Ciena’s newest Blue Orbit partner, about the company and the evolut ...

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Is your network putting the brakes on your intell ...
As intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications become more sophisticated, ensuring network uptime has become increasingl ...
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Infonetics: Ciena hitting on all cylinders, leads ...
Infonetics has just released its 2015 Optical Network Hardware Scorecard. In it, Ciena is described as hitting on all cylinders a ...

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How To Hack an Optical Fiber in Minutes… And How ...
Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption, is the most effective means to protect against a fiber optic tap, as it protects all in-flight data ...

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At Ciena work is not about when or where, but how ...
One Ciena employee discusses how the company’s flexible and inclusive culture empowers her to flourish in an on-demand world

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Countdown to the General Data Protection Regulati ...
Ciena’s Raffi Varoujian, Co-Lead for Global Compliance and Data Privacy, discusses the upcoming GDPR, what it means and how optic ...

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Karl Horne Q&A: MDSO is the Key to Rolling wi ...
Karl Horne—Ciena’s CTO for the Asia Pacific region —explains how multi-domain service orchestration (MDSO) is crucial to helping ...
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Ovum ranks Ciena #1 worldwide in booming market f ...
Global analyst firm Ovum unveiled new numbers on the rapidly growing market for data center interconnect with Ciena sitting atop ...

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4 challenges for data center operators in Japan, ...
Japan is a major submarine cable interconnection point between Asia and North America due to its geographical location. Adding to ...
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Announcing Emulation Cloud: The Ultimate DIY Play ...
If you’re fed up with sluggish development, disjointed software pieces and endless API cloud integration issues, then we have som ...

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ASEAN Light Bytes: Building Vietnam’s Optical Bac ...
Ciena has been a fixture in Vietnam for more than 20 years, preceding the company’s acquisition of Nortel. Throughout the past de ...

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Our involvement with AT&T’s 400GbE trial and ...
AT&T has successfully trialed 400GbE across its production network. Helen Xenos details how Ciena helped make it happen, and what ...

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Three key optimization strategies to resolve stat ...
What are the biggest challenges and priorities for state and local government networks? Daniele Loffreda shares insights from rec ...
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Ciena Waveserver and 5430 get high marks with Lig ...
Ciena brought home high marks from the Lightwave Innovation Awards. Both the Waveserver Data Center Interconnect and 5430 Packet- ...

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Predictions: Ciena CTO Steve Alexander on the key ...
Steve Alexander, Ciena SVP and CTO, talks through his predictions for the future of technologies like 5G, AI, software automation ...

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The journey to 1.6T: Understanding the technologi ...
Helen Xenos explains how the technology choices behind Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme 1.6 terabit coherent optics translate to optim ...

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Without an innovative new approach to xHaul, 5G m ...
Backhaul has traditionally been the afterthought when it comes to planning next-generation cellular networks. But in the 5G era, ...

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Why your Storage Area Network modernization shoul ...
Ciena’s Patrick Scully explains how flexible, programmable DCI infrastructure helps enterprises keep pace with today’s growing da ...
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WaveLogic Encryption brings effortless in-flight ...
Ciena's new WaveLogic Encryption solution brings simple, in-flight data encryption to 100G and 200G speeds.

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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...
Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...

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Cable in 2020: The Role Virtualization and 'Fiber ...
A look at how virtualization and fiber deep will “bring it home” for MSOs in the OTT future

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IDC Survey: Optimization is key to Service Provid ...
IDC's Curtis Price shares insights from a recent Communication Service Provider Optimization Services survey that highlights the ...