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In Their Words: Gary Smith, Steve Alexander & ...

Gary Smith, Steve Alexander, and Steve Chaddick, three of Ciena’s most recognized names for a rare glimpse into Ciena’s early day ...

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The key ingredients you need to be the master che ...

Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how operators can benefit from following the right recipe to automate the photonic layer.

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WaveLogic Encryption brings effortless in-flight ...

Ciena's new WaveLogic Encryption solution brings simple, in-flight data encryption to 100G and 200G speeds.

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The implications behind service and content provi ...

As coherent technology plays an increasingly critical role in the network, Ciena’s Helen Xenos delves into the details behind wha ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Leveraging network ...

Ciena's David Boertjes explains how analytics can help monitor and control the the signal-to-noise ratio margin and David Côté ex ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: How near-zero marg ...

Ciena’s Paulina Gomez introduces our “Optical Network Expert Series: A guide to improving future network economics with near-zero ...

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How 3 technology advancements provide new options ...

To meet growing bandwidth demands, network providers do not always have the option to acquire or turn-up new fiber resources. Cie ...

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No network left behind: How network as a sensor d ...

The mission must continue – and that means networks must be up and secure, no matter what. Now more than ever before, networks ca ...

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The Evolution and Revolution of Networking Servic ...

This is the second in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.

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New IHS Infonetics service provider survey puts C ...

IHS Infonetics has released the results from its annual Service Provider survey of Optical Equipment vendors. Here's how Ciena fa ...

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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: ...

The increasing demand for capacity is driving the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure for R&E

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How bold hardware and software innovations are ch ...

How are hardware and software advancements helping network operators solve key challenges they face today? Ciena’s Paulina Gomez ...

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Of Oreos and Optical Networks: Ciena expands Wave ...

Ciena is extending the market reach of its industry-leading WaveLogic coherent modem technology by making it available to a range ...

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Bluewater Regional Networks lights up historic ne ...

To provide the connectivity needed for today’s digital economy, Bluewater Regional Networks is deploying a high-capacity, flexibl ...

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When it comes to IP/Optical convergence – can you ...

Are you finding yourself getting stuck in all the noise and details surrounding IP/Optical convergence? Not sure where you should ...

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New contenders join the race for lowest cost and ...

With all the buzz around 800G and 400ZR in the market, you might assume only large cloud and content providers see a need for the ...

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Ciena Takes Top Spot in IHS Markit’s Annual Optic ...

Ciena secures the highest combined score overall in 2017 and once again lands securely in the leader category.

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Side-stepping the cost, complexity and extended t ...

How organisations can reduce time to market for new connectivity offerings from 24 months to just six months with a white label d ...

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Ciena goes web-scale with new coherent, metro and ...

This is the first in a series of blog posts detailing Ciena’s new products and solutions tailored for a new web-scale world.

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Photonic integration and co-packaging: Design too ...

Photonic integration and co-packaging are related approaches to addressing area and power challenges for networking applications. ...

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How to elevate your defenses against growing cybe ...

Advances in quantum computing are introducing new paradigms in data security. Ciena’s Patrick Scully explains what they are and w ...

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Why TLS/SSL encryption techniques are not enough ...

If your in-flight data encryption strategy relies on TLS and SSL, you may not be as secure as you think. That's because these tec ...

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Ericsson and Ciena support Telstra to lay foundat ...

Telstra has announced it has selected Ericsson, using Ciena’s technology, for a three-year optical transmission network rollout a ...

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Ciena’s technology innovation once again lands th ...

Based on analyst criteria, Ciena once again secured the highest overall score in the 2019 IHS Markit annual Optical Network Hardw ...

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