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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 ...

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Learn about the technology behind Ciena’s WaveLog ...

In our latest Chalk Talk videos, Ciena’s Joe Shapiro gives you a closer look at our WaveLogic 5 solutions and describes the indus ...

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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 8 Announcements of 20 ...

As we close out another year, we look back at Ciena's biggest news and announcements of 2017.

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Year in Review: Ciena’s 10 biggest announcements ...

As we wrap up 2023, we are looking back at some of Ciena’s most significant news and announcements from the year.

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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 6 Announcements of 20 ...

As 2016 comes to a close, we take a look back at the biggest news from a big year here at Ciena.

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How much bandwidth does Broadcast HD video use?

One of the most often cited reasons for the global explosion in bandwidth demand is the significant rise in video traffic, and sp ...

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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's 9 predictions for networks and tech in 20 ...

Some of Ciena's most distinguished experts and execs give their predictions for the upcoming year.

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Ciena’s role in recent 400G industry-first milest ...

Are you confused about the recent 400G milestones announced and how this is different than what has been discussed for a few year ...

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What's in store for Asia Pacific Networking in 20 ...

From 5G to AI to the move to virtualization, Ciena’s Anup Changaroth gives his insights on the major trends that are likely to dr ...

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Break away from the pack: How service providers c ...

A surge of new services, content, and applications are being created and consumed at the edge of the network by both business and ...

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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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How pluggables fit into Ciena’s coherent optical ...

Greg Friesen gives an update on Ciena's coherent optical investment strategy and provides some insights into what is next, includ ...

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Detailing Ciena’s massive new 15 Terabit OTN swit ...

This morning Ciena has unveiled a major update to our 5430 Packet-Optical Platform, giving it a massive upgrade to 15 Terabits of ...

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Year in review: Ciena’s 7 biggest announcements o ...

As we close out an unprecedented year, let’s look back at some of the biggest Ciena news and announcements from 2020.

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4 critical requirements for the next-gen photonic ...

Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains the four critical photonic layer requirements to ensuring a successful network transformation.

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Q&A with Ciena CEO Gary Smith on Cyan Acquisi ...

Ciena today completed its acquisition of Cyan, a leading provider of next-gen software and platforms to enable SDN networks.

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Ovum report says optical networks are booming in ...

It is no secret that India is experiencing massive bandwidth demand growth fueled largely by mobile broadband. A recent report by ...

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The SDN Resource Adapter: More than Meets the Eye

While NFV has largely owned the network virtualization industry spotlight of late, there is a rising tide of interest around conf ...

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Coherent optical turns 10: Here’s how it was made

This is the story of how a team of over 100 people in Ciena's R&D labs pulled together an impressive collection of technology inn ...

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Why ROADM architectures make sense for your DCI n ...

Simple, point-to-point data center interconnect networks are the norm, so why are network operators considering ROADM for their m ...

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Bharti Airtel honors Ciena with Airtel Value Lead ...

Ciena has been honoured with the Airtel Value Leader award at Airtel Confluence, Bharti Airtel’s annual global partner conference.

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Redefining the metro edge with packet and coheren ...

Ciena’s Wayne Hickey explains how coherent packet-optical is redefining metro’s edge.

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Four Reasons You Want a Micro-Services Architectu ...

While the topic of container-based micro-services seems to have become a hot-topic overnight in the networking and telecom space, ...

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