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Building the Adaptive Network – starting with sil ...
Patricia Bower explores coherent DSP design - one of the primary tools network equipment designers have in order to enable progra ...
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Ciena’s WaveLogic: Accelerating connectivity and ...
Amid a surge of new investments and construction in data centers, Southeast Asian nations are joining together to make significan ...
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Fiber densification without complexity the goal o ...
To support the bandwidth demands on already taxed networks, providers are looking for solutions that can provide step-level impro ...
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Is your network putting the brakes on your intell ...
As intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications become more sophisticated, ensuring network uptime has become increasingl ...
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CenturyLink announces network virtualization plan ...
Ciena's Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator is a key part of CenturyLink’s plan to virtualize 40% of its global IP core network location ...
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Whirlwind tour: How 800G is already benefiting ne ...
Did you know that Ciena has shipped more than 25,000 800G modems to 140 unique operators around the world? How is this transformi ...
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Don’t be Fooled: Utility Fiber Outside the Substa ...
Many utility CIOs do not fully appreciate the fact that, once data leaves the substation or data center, it is basically outside ...
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Selecting flexible coherent routing platforms wit ...
Did you know Ciena’s coherent routing platforms have all the capabilities you need to support next-generation metro and edge use ...
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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 ...
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Grow smarter by leveraging your existing infrastr ...
Networks are experiencing explosive bandwidth growth, and technology service providers are the first to face its impact. From the ...
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Is your metro network architecture ready to scale ...
Ciena’s 8114 Coherent Aggregation Router, the newest member of the 8100 family, brings providers more capacity for dedicated and ...
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Sensible step or leap of faith? 5 key reasons why ...
Jean-David Fabre, head of the research and education market, EMEA, Ciena says that by breaking with tradition and choosing the da ...
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Ciena has joined Google Cloud’s 5G/Edge ISV Progr ...
Google Cloud is growing the number of independent software vendors (ISVs) it is teaming with on hundreds of partner-focused appli ...
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Metro routing done differently: Unveiling Ciena’s ...
You asked for a different way to build a converged metro network, and we listened. Meet WaveRouter, a reimagined routing platform ...
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What is ZR+?
ZR+ means different things to different people. Learn about the wide range of different solutions encompassed by the generic term ...
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Introducing WaveLogic 6: Another industry first f ...
1.6 Terabit wavelengths. 800G everywhere. 800G pluggables delivering 1000 km reaches. Seems impossible? Don’t ever tell that to a ...
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Celebrating the Rise of 400G
The era of 400G was in full force at OFC and we took some time to celebrate this milestone. Here are what our customers have to s ...
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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...
Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...
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What is Gridless Networking?
What is gridless networking? Brian Lavallée, who heads up submarine networks industry marketing for Ciena, provides some insight.
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Autonomous Networks… Are You Ready?
Ciena's Brian Lavallée explains where we are (and where we're going) on the road to autonomous networks.
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The Journey to 800G and Beyond
This blog originally appeared on Zayo's website. The road to innovation begins with a map. Sometimes it’s figurative — a roadmap ...
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500G transpacific. Yep, we did that!
The news from SubOptic? Let’s start with our successful single-wavelength 500G field trial over a 9,000km transpacific cable. Cie ...
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400G Industry Adoption is Taking Off
The adoption of 400G is ramping up. Ciena’s Helen Xenos takes a look at how this compares with adoption rates of technology in th ...
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#Ciena25: The Story Behind the Founding of Ciena
2017 marks Ciena's 25-year anniversary. Here's the story of how it all started back in 1992, with four founding members and a new ...