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DAA takes center stage at SCTE Cable-Tec 2018
Did you miss SCTE Cable-Tec Expo? Were you running from meeting to meeting and missing sessions? Ciena’s Darren McKinney has you ...
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Three takeaways from CableLabs Summer Conference’ ...
Ciena’s Chief Architect for the MSO Practice, Fernando Villarruel spent last week at the 19th annual – and last – CableLabs Summe ...
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Dealing with packet networking complexity? It’s t ...
Ciena’s Scott McFeely explains how new significant enhancements to Ciena’s Packet Networking portfolio will help you to accelerat ...
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Q&A: Learning More about CableLabs® New Coher ...
CableLabs recently released a specification for coherent optics that is a significant development to support Distributed Access A ...
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800G is here: pushing the boundaries of what your ...
The wait is over. 800G has been tested and proven in real production networks with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme. Learn about how t ...
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How Service Electric Cablevision is scaling up it ...
To provide their communities and customers with the level of connectivity needed for today’s pace of business and life, Service E ...
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What do DAA, Network Slicing, Scaling Optical Net ...
Learn about all that Ciena has planned for the upcoming SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2020 Virtual Experience and the forward-looking topic ...
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Measure Twice, Cut Once: Fiber Deep Planning for ...
Ciena's Wayne Hickey details what Cable MSOs must consider when driving fiber deeper into their network.
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What is Fiber Densification?
There is a new term that is increasingly cropping up in networking conversations: densification. Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains wha ...
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Re-Sodding Cable MSO Brownfields
With an increase in demand for high-speed data, IP video, cloud computing, and business services, cable MSO brownfields need to u ...
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Universal aggregation for Cable MSOs
In the second part of Wayne Hickey’s series on universal aggregation, he takes a look at Cable MSO networks, what they are, and h ...
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Sharing Bandwidth with the Neighbors
Ciena's Wayne Hickey explains how Cable Operators can reduce sharing sizes to increase overall customer quality of experience.
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What is a Converged Interconnect Network (CIN)?
The term, Converged Interconnect Network (CIN), has been around for a few years now – but it is only now with its importance in e ...
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Speeding up the Network Edge with Fiber Deep
Ciena’s Wayne Hickey explains how changing user behaviors are driving the need for more symmetrical services to alleviate bandwid ...
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Are You Ready for the DOCSIS Impact on Fiber?
DOCSIS 3.1 is 10 times faster than 3.0 but this added speed brings challenges. Find out the how it will impact fiber deployments ...
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Cable plays nice: Service convergence on the CIN
Ciena’s Chief Architect for the MSO Practice, Fernando Villarruel explains how moving forward, even more interaction between indu ...
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Top 5 Takeaways from Light Reading’s CNG 2019 Con ...
Did the ‘bomb cyclone’ winter blizzard last week in Denver keep you from attending the annual Light Reading Cable Next-Gen (CNG) ...
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Addressing mid-market opportunities by utilizing ...
MSOs are looking to mid-market business services as an opportunity to grow, but what do they need to address this market? Ciena's ...
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Catch-up with Ciena, Blue Planet, and the hot top ...
Check out what Ciena has planned at next week’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2021 Virtual Experience and the interesting insights our expe ...
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Cable’s Fiber Outlook Survey – 87% Plan Aggregati ...
As part of the annual “Cable’s Fiber Outlook Survey Report”, Heavy Reading surveyed over 200 respondents to get insights on Distr ...
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How does Ciena’s 5171 help solve key networking b ...
Ciena’s 5171 platform delivers the capacity network operators need, where they want it – the network edge. In our popular Chalk T ...
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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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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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Cable in 2020: The Role Virtualization and 'Fiber ...
A look at how virtualization and fiber deep will “bring it home” for MSOs in the OTT future