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Quantifying the benefits of tunable coherent mode ...
How do you reduce optical transport costs to compete in an aggressive market? Helen Xenos talks about the economics of tunable co ...
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The Global Connectivity Divide: How we’re doing a ...
Ciena CEO Gary Smith: While the connectivity of things may promise tremendous advancements in a multitude of applications with ma ...
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Relive Summer with Carrier Ethernet Summer Camp
The kids are back in school. The mornings have the crisp feel of Fall. It's true, summer is over. But that doesn't mean you can't ...
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Five key APIs to enable the concept of SDN-based ...
Ciena's Fady Masoud details the APIs that enable SDN-based virtual networks and help accelerate the evolution toward open cloud n ...
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Q&A session: Blue Orbit and Service Provider ...
Ciena's new Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit is creating a buzz with our customers and partners. Two of our experts explain what it is ...
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4 New OTN Use Cases for Today’s Networks
Optical networking dynamics are changing. Read the 4 new OTN use cases for today’s networks.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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.
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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?
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...