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Service Orchestration: The Cure for Vendor Silos ...
In order to fully orchestrate services from end-to-end, across both the physical and virtual domains, network operators will now ...
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Service providers single out Ciena as leading opt ...
IHS Markit released the results from its annual Service Provider survey of Optical Equipment vendors, with Ciena taking the top s ...
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Shannon’s Limit, or Opportunity?
There’s a looming limit to how many bits can be crammed into an optical fiber, known as the Shannon Limit. Ciena's Brian Lavallée ...
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Side Stepping NPI | Ciena
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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Simplified management of multi-vendor, converged ...
Service providers want to simplify their network operations in order to drive efficiencies, but their strategies for managing coh ...
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Single-wave 400G across 4,000km? Yes – with Ciena ...
Ciena’s popular family of Waveserver products just got a new member – Waveserver 5. With tunable capacity up to 800G and support ...
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SONET/SDH is dead – really this time
The age of SONET and SDH networks is nearing an end, for real this time. In the latest reports from Infonetics and Dell’Oro, both ...
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Standards Update: 200GbE, 400GbE and Beyond with ...
Ciena's Helen Xenos talks to Pete Anslow, our Ethernet standards guru, about the newly approved IEEE standards for 200GbE and 400 ...
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Submarine Cable Networks, Open for Business
Open Cables, APIs, and big data analytics have and will continue to change everything going forward, says Ciena's Brian Lavallee, ...
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SubOptic 2019: Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler!
As the proud host of the triennial SubOptic 2019 submarine network industry event, Ciena welcomes you to New Orleans, Louisiana! ...
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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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Taking a holistic approach to network sustainabil ...
Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna details why taking a holistic approach to network sustainability helps network operators achieve thei ...
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Telecom Egypt puts customers first with Ciena’s o ...
To offer granular, agile and reliable data services between Europe and Asia, Telecom Egypt (TE) has partnered with Ciena to build ...
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The Advent of Open Submarine Networks
Even as many of today's networks are moving to open architectures, submarine cable networks have remained closed and proprietary. ...
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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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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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The DevOps Revolution: The “Jig is Up” for Legacy ...
Ciena Blue Planet introduces its new DevOps Toolkit. The Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit provides a platform to create, modify, test a ...
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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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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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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...
Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...
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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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The journey to 1.6T: Understanding the technologi ...
Helen Xenos explains how the technology choices behind Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme 1.6 terabit coherent optics translate to optim ...
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The journey to 1.6T: Why 1.6T and what’s in it fo ...
Incredible as it may sound, network providers will soon be able to evolve their optical networks to 1.6Tb/s transmission. What do ...
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The Journey to 800G and Beyond
This blog originally appeared on Zayo's website. The road to innovation begins with a map. Sometimes it’s figurative — a roadmap ...