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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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How well do you know Ciena’s 6500 Family of Packe ...

Sure you have heard of Ciena’s 6500 family of packet-optical platforms, but do you really know each member of the family and how ...

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Ciena and TELUS bring 800G to Canada, break world ...

Ciena’s Helen Xenos had a front row seat as TELUS and Ciena turned up the first single-wavelength 800G in Canada across TELUS’s n ...

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Ciena unveils new 6500 T-Series platform with 24 ...

Ciena today unveiled Ciena 6500 T-Series, a new higher density version of our cornerstone 6500 Packet Optical Platform, providing ...

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Q&A with Ron Kline: Predicting the Pace of Ch ...

Ciena's Ron Kline shares his perspective on the many factors that affect the pace of change in our industry and how companies mus ...

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Keeping Your Options Open: How Ciena Brings Choic ...

Network operators need options and freedom to grow their networks. Kent Jordan details what Ciena has been doing to bring choice ...

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SCTE Expo 2019 – the importance and opportunities ...

At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo this year there were a few aspects of moving to 10G that stood out: the importance of low latency, the ...

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Be the Hero of Your Network with Ciena’s Optical ...

Apply the collective knowledge of some of the world’s best and brightest optical minds to your network with Ciena’s Optical Netwo ...

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Why the Secret Behind Strong Early Adoption of 40 ...

400G is a hot topic these days – but how is it really being used? Ciena’s Optical expert Helen Xenos explains what we mean by 400 ...

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Preparing coherent pluggables for prime time: pra ...

Through continued innovation, the use of coherent optical technology has expanded to support new networking applications and in n ...

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How To Hack an Optical Fiber in Minutes… And How ...

Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption, is the most effective means to protect against a fiber optic tap, as it protects all in-flight data ...

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Designing for programmable infrastructures – adva ...

In this article, Patricia Bower reviews the advances made in electro-optical component design, the other critical constituent of ...

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ASEAN Light Bytes: Building Vietnam’s Optical Bac ...

Ciena has been a fixture in Vietnam for more than 20 years, preceding the company’s acquisition of Nortel. Throughout the past de ...

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Petabytes in motion: A look at next-gen networks ...

The event will be hosted by our very own Rod Wilson, and the panel will include guests from ESnet, University of Amsterdam, Texas ...

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Why Successful Business Transformation Requires a ...

New coherent technology innovations are now making it possible to challenge several longstanding assumptions associated with how ...

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Countdown to the General Data Protection Regulati ...

Ciena’s Raffi Varoujian, Co-Lead for Global Compliance and Data Privacy, discusses the upcoming GDPR, what it means and how optic ...

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Pioneering the path for Quantum-Secured Long-Dist ...

What are the latest developments in quantum-secured communications and what could the future hold? Ciena’s Paulina Gomez sits dow ...

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Preview our Top 5 online courses to celebrate Nat ...

September 15 is National Online Learning Day, and Ciena is joining with others to celebrate the opportunities and advances that o ...

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Digital-First India: Building a future proof and ...

How did Airtel build a new infrastructure that can dynamically adjust and keep up with ever-changing user demands in India?

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Ciena unveils Liquid Spectrum: The future of soft ...

For all the “agile” innovation over the last decade, today's optical networks are still predominantly static. This changes with C ...

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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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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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How coherent technology decisions that start in t ...

What is the difference between 400G, 600G and 800G coherent solutions? It seems to be obvious, but is it just about maximum wavel ...

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Helping the planet and driving better economics, ...

Not all ZR plugs are created equal. They might all be standards-based, but that’s where the similarities end. What would signific ...

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