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Dissecting a submarine network trial announcement

With network infrastructure as critical as submarine cables, we’re constantly seeing new cables being announced and new technolog ...

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TOSCA and YANG? It’s not either/or...it’s both

Ciena's new Blue Planet architecture leverages a number of information models and orchestration tools – including TOSCA and NetCo ...

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Survey says - service providers are ready for the ...

What are service providers looking for when it comes to IP/Optical convergence? Heavy Reading asked 220 service provider executiv ...

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2019: Our favorite pictures from the last year

Enjoy our favorite pictures from 2019 that highlight what we love about life at Ciena.

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Blue Orbit: Best-of-Breed Building Blocks

Ciena Blue Planet has today added six new members to our Blue Orbit Ecosystem. Unlike other partner programs, 100% of the partner ...

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Meet the man who pioneered modern DWDM technology

Ciena CTO Steve Alexander has been honored with two IEEE recognitions. In this post, Steve's longtime friend and colleague Joe Be ...

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Meet the People who brought 400G to Optical

How do you deliver innovation that brings tremendous value to customers 1 year earlier? You use a team that has done it before wi ...

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4 EdTech Mega-Trends Driving Change in the Classr ...

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda looks at new trends in education technology, and the challenge of integrating them into the classroom.

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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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Ciena unveils WaveLogic 3 with 400G: What you nee ...

Ciena unveiled WaveLogic 3, the latest generation of coherent optical processors that form the foundation of our next-gen optical ...

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9 questions answered about Ciena Blue Planet

Ciena answers 9 questions about its Blue Planet

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From natural disasters to cyber threats: The chal ...

Ivan Polizzi, Ciena’s Regional Managing Director of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific details the challenges Australasian s ...

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CORD hits all the right chords with ONOS

Just like how a good song sticks in your head, CORD is hitting all the right notes for network operators looking to re-architect ...

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Linking the packet network edge, metro, and core

Ciena’s Wayne Hickey discusses key access and metro networking trends, how advanced multi-layer Segment Routing protocol support ...

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Celebrating 60 Years of Protecting Submarine Cabl ...

The International Cable Protection Committee plays a critical role in protecting the world's subsea cable networks, and it's abou ...

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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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Your Top 4 Questions Answered About WaveLogic Ai

Our new Ciena WaveLogic Ai coherent chipset has been generating a lot of excitement and interest from our customers. Ciena's Hele ...

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More than a photon cannon: What iCAIR, UETN and C ...

iCAIR, UETN and Ciena were recently awarded the Best Long-Distance Performance and Overall Winner of the international Data Mover ...

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Ciena’s WaveLogic3 recognised with industry award

Last night was an evening of celebration for Ciena as WaveLogic3 was again recognised with an industry award. Congratulations to ...

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What Happens When Quantum Physics Meets Cryptogra ...

Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how research and development in cryptography is underway and how it could radically change encrypt ...

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Predictions: Ciena CTO Steve Alexander looks at t ...

Ciena’s CTO Steve Alexander discusses key trends that will shape the industry in 2020 and beyond including, 5G, edge computing, a ...

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Northern Europe Goes Dark, and It’s a Good Thing

Eastern Light is a Swedish-based company that aims to change how bandwidth is carried around Northern Europe, a hotbed of data ce ...

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The Cable Landing Station Is Critical Infrastruct ...

We sit down with Amy Marks, CEO of XSite Modular, a leading cable landing station builder, to get her valuable insights on the su ...

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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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