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Modernizing your Storage Area Network? Don’t negl ...

Flash storage’s sub-millisecond latency uncovers insights by leveraging analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. ...

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More than a photon cannon: What iCAIR, UETN and C ...

iCAIR, UETN and Ciena were recently awarded the Best Long-Distance Performance and Overall Winner of the international Data Mover ...

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Move Over 200G, 400G is the New Sexy

The 400G era is here, with Ciena's new WaveLogic Ai chipset making news with some of the world's largest service providers. Ciena ...

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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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Multi-Terabit Submarine Cables… Too Big to Fail?

Report in 2010 found that nearly 100 percent of the world’s intercontinental electronic communications traffic is carried by the ...

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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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New Cignal AI report looks at past, present and f ...

Cignal AI has published a new report, “Tracking the Deployment of Third Generation Coherent”. Download and learn the latest trans ...

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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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New IHS Infonetics service provider survey puts C ...

IHS Infonetics has released the results from its annual Service Provider survey of Optical Equipment vendors. Here's how Ciena fa ...

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New tide of technologies tested on Facebook’s MAR ...

Brian Lavallée, Senior Director of Submarine Network Solutions Marketing at Ciena, sat down with Facebook's Steve Grubb, a key me ...

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Next-generation networks help DOT’s deliver quali ...

Converged packet-optical technology enhances Department of Transportation’s intelligent transportation systems while paving the w ...

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No network left behind: How network as a sensor d ...

The mission must continue – and that means networks must be up and secure, no matter what. Now more than ever before, networks ca ...

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No Time for Rest: Windstream’s Kelly Crosby detai ...

A fascinating Q/A with Windstream Senior Product Manager Kelly Crosby on their expanded Wave service, changing approaches to virt ...

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North Sea Pathways: Digital Oilfields to Ultra-Se ...

Tampnet, a Norwegian based global operator, uses Ciena gear to support the operation of the largest offshore multi-terabit, low l ...

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North to the future, via improved connectivity

Learn about how GCI, to better address the latest bandwidth rush from Alaskan wholesalers, the federal government, and content pr ...

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Northern Europe Goes Dark, and It’s a Good Thing

Eastern Light is a Swedish-based company that aims to change how bandwidth is carried around Northern Europe, a hotbed of data ce ...

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Of Oreos and Optical Networks: Ciena expands Wave ...

Ciena is extending the market reach of its industry-leading WaveLogic coherent modem technology by making it available to a range ...

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On the Submarine Network Horizon in 2019

Submarine networking operators continue to need new innovations in order to meet the evolving needs of this critical infrastructu ...

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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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ONOS framework builds out SDN ecosystem

Read Q&A conversation on Open Network Operating System – or ONOS – backed by ON.Lab.

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Opening Up Networks To Choice, At Last

In a world that was previously incapable of being software-driven, fully-integrated solutions once upon a time made sense.

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Optical Network Expert Series: Applying AI to max ...

David Côté explains how artificial intelligence is being applied to maximize network capacity and quality of transmission.

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Optical Network Expert Series: Designing programm ...

Ciena’s optical network expert, David Boertjes, discusses the programmable infrastructure needed to achieve a near-zero margin ne ...

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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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