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Vendor of the Year: Ciena brings home 3 MEF award ...

The future of both Ciena and the networking industry was on display this week at the MEF’s GEN15 in Dallas, Texas.

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Top 10 things utilities should know about packet ...

Utilities are in a time of transition. Legacy communications circuits are being discontinued by carriers and there is pressure fo ...

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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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Switchboards and Ethernet Services: MEF streamlin ...

Like the telephone switchboards of old, today's Carrier Ethernet services many times require multiple network operators to get to ...

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Head of the Class: Ciena Amongst First to Receive ...

The MEF, formerly known as Metro Ethernet Forum, announced this week that Ciena’s 8700 Packetwave® Platform and 3926m Service Agg ...

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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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Ciena obtains JITC certification, paves the way f ...

The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) certification for our layer 2 Ethernet access and aggregation solutions gives DoD ...

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Liberty Global partners with Ciena to help custom ...

Liberty Global is fulfilling its vision to help customers connect their world with a single provider, and a single, harmonised Ca ...

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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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5 tips to scale your network, not your complexity ...

For years, increasing your capacity to meet growing demand meant adding more and bigger hardware-based platforms to your infrastr ...

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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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Ethernet Adventures: Making Progress with an Old ...

In the second post of this 3-part series, we unravel one hero’s journey on the road to streamlined enterprise networking operatio ...

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Ciena And Aviat Team Up On Unified Fiber-Microwav ...

Building advanced utility communications networks requires a solution with superior performance that spans both fiber and microwa ...

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Want to take your IP network to new heights? Look ...

It is no longer a question of if people want a new way to build their IP networks, but how. Ciena’s Joe Marsella explains how the ...

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Lead with innovation: Carrier Ethernet services m ...

The popularity and increasing demand for Carrier Ethernet is driving adoption throughout Latin America and globally, while also c ...

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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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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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How coherent optics improve capacity, performance ...

In this Q&A, Fernando Villarruel, Chief Architect of Ciena’s MSO Practice, highlights the strategic importance of coherent optics ...

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Strategies for a total communications solution – ...

Alex Connors of Vodafone details the service provider’s new high-capacity Ethernet Services and hybrid WAN portfolio, which uses ...

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Optic Zoo Networks Keeps Vancouver’s Data Travell ...

Tony Ross, Director of Network Engineering, Optic Zoo Networks, explains how Canadian enterprises are reaping the benefits of its ...

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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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The top 6 features of a truly future-proof conver ...

In this blog we detail how evolving networks cost effectively with converged Ethernet and IP can help network operators keep pace ...

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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: ...

The increasing demand for capacity is driving the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure for R&E

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Simplify your IP network with centralized Segment ...

Segment Routing is once again top of mind for service providers to enable IP network simplification. Understand how Ciena’s Adapt ...

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