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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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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 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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The Metro gets a brand new 100G architecture opti ...
Traditionally, operators have had to choose between two types of photonic architectures when deploying an optical network: a pass ...
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Ciena’s new coherent chipsets raise the optical b ...
Ciena has unveiled two new coherent chipsets that represent the latest innovations with our WaveLogic 3 technology.
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Ciena goes web-scale with new coherent, metro and ...
This is the first in a series of blog posts detailing Ciena’s new products and solutions tailored for a new web-scale world.
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PTC'15: Ciena’s newest 100G tech further extends ...
Ciena has unveiled new capabilities for its GeoMesh submarine networks solution that further extends the capacity and distance ca ...
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A service provider’s guide to on-demand service p ...
The move to providing on-demand services is not just a technical challenge. How do you price them? How do you make sure they don' ...
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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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The $9B Market Opportunity for On-Demand Services
For years now, our industry has discussed the growing need for dynamic on-demand network services. But how big is this opportunit ...
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Ciena’s Optical Encryption technology goes global
Ciena's latest optical encryption capabilities were on display this week at the GLIF 2014 Conference in New Zealand, where an enc ...
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What is Bandwidth on Demand?
Today, connectivity services are a mostly static experience, meaning that once the endpoints and service attributes are defined, ...
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Build vs. Buy: 5 questions to ask about your clou ...
Our interactive calculator takes you through a series of questions to help make the decision easier.
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Ciena targets metro Ethernet market with new 8700 ...
Ciena has taken direct aim at the metro Ethernet market with today’s unveiling of the 8700 Packetwave Platform
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What will research networks look like in 2020?
With their need to share massive amounts of research data with other institutions around the globe, research networks serve as a ...
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How Maryland’s statewide broadband network was bo ...
Former Howard County CIO Ira Levy recounts the ground-breaking efforts he and other Maryland leaders took in shepherding the comp ...
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Ciena at the NYSE: The day in pictures
Ciena ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and host a group of financial analysts and investors for our 2014 I ...
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Are you asking these questions from potential MPL ...
Are you a transport or a mobile backhaul operator aiming to deploy an easy-to-operate Ethernet transport solution based on MPLS-T ...
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OTN Speedwagon: America’s best corporate band
Ciena is the proud home of America’s best corporate band: OTN Speedwagon. That distinction was won at the 2013 FORTUNE Battle of ...
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Ciena’s new ‘Smart Raman’ provides Raman gain wit ...
Ciena has recently introduced an innovative new Raman solution that eliminates the pain points of previous Raman products and eve ...
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Behind the scenes with Ciena’s corporate rock band
Ciena's OTN Speedwagon to play in finals of FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands.
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SONET/SDH is dead – really this time
The age of SONET and SDH networks is nearing an end, for real this time. In the latest reports from Infonetics and Dell’Oro, both ...
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Ciena 6500: Extreme Packet Makeover Edition
It’s time to rethink everything you know about Ciena’s 6500 Packet Optical Platform. You’ve known the 6500 as our flagship platfo ...
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A tutorial on Modern Carrier Ethernet
It's not very often that we get deep into the details of technology on this blog -- we save that for our white papers and one-on- ...