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Honoring Ciena’s Kim Roberts, recipient of the 20 ...
At OFC 2019 Ciena’s Kim Roberts was presented with the John Tyndall Award. In an article from Gazettabyte, Roy Rubenstein takes a ...
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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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5 Ways DCI Growth is Driving New Innovations in T ...
New technologies and capabilities, driven by data center interconnect (DCI) applications and capacity growth, are now available. ...
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Automate or Die: What Telecom Must Learn from the ...
This is the first in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.
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A peek inside CenturyLink’s National 100G Ultra L ...
CenturyLink began using Ciena’s 6500 platform in 2013 to modernize and upgrade its national network and offer high-speed services ...
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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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How well do you know Ciena’s 6500 Family of Packe ...
Sure you have heard of Ciena’s 6500 family of packet-optical platforms, but do you really know each member of the family and how ...
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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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Ciena’s new Waveserver: a dream machine for data ...
Ciena introduces the Waveserver™, a compact and purpose-built platform capable of enabling massive multi-terabit bandwidth for me ...
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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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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 ...
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SCTE Expo 2019 – the importance and opportunities ...
At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo this year there were a few aspects of moving to 10G that stood out: the importance of low latency, the ...
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Ciena and TELUS bring 800G to Canada, break world ...
Ciena’s Helen Xenos had a front row seat as TELUS and Ciena turned up the first single-wavelength 800G in Canada across TELUS’s n ...
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Keeping Your Options Open: How Ciena Brings Choic ...
Network operators need options and freedom to grow their networks. Kent Jordan details what Ciena has been doing to bring choice ...
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Why the Secret Behind Strong Early Adoption of 40 ...
400G is a hot topic these days – but how is it really being used? Ciena’s Optical expert Helen Xenos explains what we mean by 400 ...
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Q&A with Ron Kline: Predicting the Pace of Ch ...
Ciena's Ron Kline shares his perspective on the many factors that affect the pace of change in our industry and how companies mus ...
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Be the Hero of Your Network with Ciena’s Optical ...
Apply the collective knowledge of some of the world’s best and brightest optical minds to your network with Ciena’s Optical Netwo ...
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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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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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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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Pioneering the path for Quantum-Secured Long-Dist ...
What are the latest developments in quantum-secured communications and what could the future hold? Ciena’s Paulina Gomez sits dow ...
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Keep it simple – debating coherent plugs versus t ...
Coherent Routing is a hot topic in the industry due to the promise of greater scalability, flexibility, and sustainability in the ...
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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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Designing for programmable infrastructures – adva ...
In this article, Patricia Bower reviews the advances made in electro-optical component design, the other critical constituent of ...