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New tide of technologies tested on Facebook’s MAR ...

Brian Lavallée, Senior Director of Submarine Network Solutions Marketing at Ciena, sat down with Facebook's Steve Grubb, a key me ...

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Hawaiki: from canoes to connected broadband in th ...

Ciena's Brian Lavallée sat down recently with Hawaiki Chief Executive Officer, Rémi Galasso to discuss the firm’s mission to tran ...

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Protecting $10 Trillion Worth of Transactions, Ev ...

Back in 2010, under the auspices of the IEEE, the Reliability of Global Undersea Cable Communications Infrastructure (ROGUCCI) re ...

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IHS Markit’s optical vendor survey is out: Ciena ...

Want to know what service providers really think of optical equipment vendors and their solutions? Here is a peek into IHS Markit ...

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FlexE: 3 reasons network providers are interested

Have you heard about FlexE? Ciena’s Optical Networking expert Helen Xenos teaches you about the benefits that are driving this em ...

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Back to school: Attend Ciena’s Optical Network Ma ...

Ciena’s popular ‘Back to School’ Webinar series is back! Don’t miss this opportunity to attend four free sessions, learn from our ...

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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 Ultimate eBook Holiday Bundle is Back: 20 ...

Looking for some casual light reading this holiday season as you kick back in your favorite chair drinking eggnog? Well, look som ...

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Coherent Routing: A rapid evolution to IP/Optical ...

There’s way more to IP/Optical convergence than just a plug in a router. Scott McFeely Ciena’s SVP of Global Products & Services ...

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5 questions to evaluate OTN switching for your ne ...

Paul Littlewood, principal engineer in Ciena's CTO office and co-author of the

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Modernising networks with transformative technolo ...

How organisations can migrate from costly, complex legacy infrastructure to modern, adaptive networks that maximise operating eff ...

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Doubling down on domain control with real-time in ...

Would you like the ability to complete your operational tasks quicker and more accurately, across multi-layer, multi-vendor netwo ...

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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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The benefits of an integrated C&L-band photon ...

Network providers are looking for new alternatives to unlock additional network capacity. Ciena’s Kent Jordan explains how upgrad ...

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Q&A with Joe Marsella, Ciena's CTO for Europe

We sit down with Joe Marsella, Ciena's CTO for the European region, to get a status update on the European market and his sense o ...

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Apply BPMN to Enable Network Transformation at th ...

It can be easy to gloss over how complicated it is to integrate new SDN and NFV functionality into an existing OSS. But this inte ...

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Cycle Slips: Not all coherent technology is creat ...

With more than ten years of development behind us, Ciena has engineered our coherent products from the ground up to eliminate fai ...

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Realizing the benefits of transformed optical inf ...

With recent advances in optical technology, CSPs can reap greater efficiencies out of their existing fiber and better automate tr ...

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The evolving coherent optical networking landscap ...

Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains how network providers are now at an inflection point and must evaluate innovative approaches to elev ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Applying AI to max ...

David Côté explains how artificial intelligence is being applied to maximize network capacity and quality of transmission.

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Following the 3-pillar approach to effective secu ...

Large-scale data breaches are reported in the press almost daily, with devastating consequences for the organizations and individ ...

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4 reasons not to miss Ciena’s Optical Summer Webi ...

Yesterday’s speeds and feeds just can’t cut it in today’s environment, let alone tomorrow’s. How do you meet a future of growing ...

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Introducing the 2-slot Ciena 6500 Packet-Optical ...

Last month, Ciena made a big announcement dubbed “Intelligent Infrastructure” that detailed the strategic evolution of our packet ...

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Ciena’s top 5 resources to help you prepare for t ...

May 25th is fast approaching and with it the deadline for the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to be enforced a ...

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