Latest Articles
Articles
How I built my own mobile cell tower
What do you do when your favorite cabin getaway is so remote you can't get a good cell signal? If you're Ciena's Al Lounsbury, yo ...
Articles
Automating the WAN with SDN – Avoiding “Hurry Up ...
“Hurry up and wait!” Too often, this is how pioneers in NFV-based services feel with WAN connectivity that takes weeks to be prov ...
Articles
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 ...
Articles
12 Mind-Blowing Data Center Facts You Need to Know
These 12 mind-blowing facts about the world's data centers will have your head spinning.
Articles
Why “network slicing” is the key to 5G network ad ...
The 5G bandwidth promise is a whopping 10Gbps to each end user. But what would someone actually do with this amount of bandwidth?
Articles
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 ...
Articles
3 Classroom Tech Trends Impacting Your Education ...
With classroom and educational technology usage exploding, it’s time to examine three tech trends that are going to have a signif ...
Articles
Blue Planet Q&A: Services, SDN, and NFV
Ciena's Joe Cumello and Pamela Morgan talk to Telecom Ramblings about their experiences rolling out our Blue Planet portfolio wit ...
Articles
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 ...
Articles
The Evolution of Ciena.com…and Happy Birthday to ...
We look back at Ciena.com over the years and acknowledge the 25th anniversary of the launch of the world's first website.
Articles
12 Questions Answered about Submarine Data Center ...
As the recent news that Microsoft and Facebook plan to build a subsea cable across Atlantic demonstrates, the need to optimize in ...
Articles
Protecting $10 Trillion Worth of Transactions, Ev ...
Back in 2010, under the auspices of the IEEE, the Reliability of Global Undersea Cable Communications Infrastructure (ROGUCCI) re ...
Articles
Nothing but Growth for UK Virtualisation Market A ...
What did a recent study of UK business demand for virtual IT services and NFV reveal? The results may surprise you.
Articles
Ciena Powers Zayo’s Managed Encryption Service
Zayo Group announced that it is using Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption solution to deliver the enhanced network security increasingly ...
Articles
The Story Behind the First Reliable Trans-Atlanti ...
Learn the history of the first reliable subsea cable across the Atlantic in 1866 and how fast transmission speed has improved ove ...
Articles
Ciena CEO Gary Smith: Is the Digital Revolution t ...
For all the talk of a “digital revolution” we have yet to see anywhere near the same economic growth or impact as past inustrial ...
Articles
Is SDN the Golden Ticket? Only if you know how to ...
Just because everyone has a golden ticket doesn’t mean that it’s going to be a smooth ride through the SDN chocolate factory.
Articles
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 ...
Articles
Overcoming the Top 5 Challenges of Data Center In ...
Learn about five of the biggest DCI challenges and how to reduce or eliminate each.
Articles
A (Miserable) Day in the Life of a Submarine Fiel ...
Meet Erik. Erik is a submarine network field technician. Erik has a tough job. Let's look at all the challenges he faces in tryin ...
Articles
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.
Articles
Ethernet vs. Carrier Ethernet: The New Network Pa ...
Ethernet is everyone's favorite networking technology. Its ubiquity and popularity have pushed it outside the LAN and across almo ...
Articles
Ciena's Keri Gilder on Trends, Traction, DevOps a ...
Did you know that over 40% of the Saudi Arabian population is under the age of 18? Did you also know that they consume an average ...
Articles
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 ...