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800G adoption soars in 2020
With the industry’s first programmable 800G solution in market this year, how fast have customers been embracing it? Ciena’s Hele ...
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7 key considerations when evolving your R&E N ...
Ciena's Vini Santos shares a list of fundamental pillars to consider in R&E network evolution planning. These pillars are importa ...
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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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5 Ways DCI Growth is Driving New Innovations in T ...
New technologies and capabilities, driven by data center interconnect (DCI) applications and capacity growth, are now available. ...
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5 tips for a successful SDN deployment
A recent IDC report predicts the worldwide SDN market for the enterprise and cloud service provider segments could grow from $960 ...
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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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5 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About In-Flight ...
Ciena's Paulina Gomez sheds some light on the story of in-flight data and how to protect it with these compelling encryption fact ...
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5 Benefits Layer 1 Encryption-as-a-Service Brings ...
With all the efforts to lock down data at rest with firewalls, anti-virus software, and intrusion detection, cyber criminals are ...
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5 awesome new technologies you’ll see on the Cien ...
Next week is the OFC’17 Conference in Los Angeles, and Ciena is bringing our Ciena Innovation Lab filled with all the newest tech ...
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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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4 Things We Learned at #OFC17
From 400G to DCI to software-enabled optical networks, OFC'17 was full of news and innovation. We surveyed our experts for their ...
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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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4 New OTN Use Cases for Today’s Networks
Optical networking dynamics are changing. Read the 4 new OTN use cases for today’s networks.
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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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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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3 Ways Software will Change Data Security as We K ...
Much of today's conversation around network security and SDN/NFV revolves around identifying possible security risks when moving ...
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3 videos about next-generation 400G networking yo ...
Don’t miss these 3 videos that explain what the next-generation optical networking is, how it works, and how it was developed.
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3 unique network provider perspectives on IP/Opti ...
What are network providers thinking about IP/Optical Convergence? Representatives from Microsoft, Telia Carrier and Cox Communica ...
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3 Key Video Transport Innovation Trends We Heard ...
At last week’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, innovation was a consistent theme. Ciena’s Paulina G ...
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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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12 Questions Answered about Submarine Data Center ...
As the recent news that Microsoft and Facebook plan to build a subsea cable across Atlantic demonstrates, the need to optimize in ...
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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 ...