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Your Top 4 Questions Answered About WaveLogic Ai

Our new Ciena WaveLogic Ai coherent chipset has been generating a lot of excitement and interest from our customers. Ciena's Hele ...

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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 8 Announcements of 20 ...

As we close out another year, we look back at Ciena's biggest news and announcements of 2017.

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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 6 Announcements of 20 ...

As 2016 comes to a close, we take a look back at the biggest news from a big year here at Ciena.

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Year in review: Ciena’s 8 biggest announcements o ...

As we close out another year, we look back at Ciena's biggest news and announcements of 2018.

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Year in review: Ciena’s 7 biggest announcements o ...

As we close out an unprecedented year, let’s look back at some of the biggest Ciena news and announcements from 2020.

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Year in review: Ciena’s 6 biggest announcements o ...

As we close out another year (and the decade), let’s look back at some of the biggest Ciena news and announcements from 2019.

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Year in review: Ciena’s 5 biggest announcements o ...

From an uptick in 400G services to new acquisitions and partnerships, Ciena’s Bo Gowan highlights the biggest Ciena news and anno ...

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Year in Review: Ciena’s 10 biggest announcements ...

As we wrap up 2023, we are looking back at some of Ciena’s most significant news and announcements from the year.

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Year in Review: Ciena's 5 Biggest Announcements o ...

Bo Gowan, Ciena's social media leader, details the top news and announcements from a busy year in 2015 at Ciena.

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With big edge densification comes big metro respo ...

Ciena’s 8100 family is expanding in a big way by adding the 8190 for higher capacity aggregation. Ivana Lemos explains how you ca ...

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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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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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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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Why ROADM architectures make sense for your DCI n ...

Simple, point-to-point data center interconnect networks are the norm, so why are network operators considering ROADM for their m ...

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Why Packet/OTN Switching is making its way into m ...

Once just a technology for big service provider networks, Packet/OTN Switching is now making its way into Enterprise Metro networ ...

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Why data security is more important than ever

Joe Marsella, CTO EMEA at Ciena, discusses the implications of optical fibre hacking and why a holistic security strategy is esse ...

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Why Adaptive is the biggest story in networking

Joe Cumello explains why autonomous networking alone is not enough, and introduces Ciena’s Adaptive Network, which combines the r ...

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Whirlwind tour: How 800G is already benefiting ne ...

Did you know that Ciena has shipped more than 25,000 800G modems to 140 unique operators around the world? How is this transformi ...

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When Moore Is Not Enough – Why Our Growing Networ ...

The demand for communications bandwidth is expanding faster and faster each year, and we’re entering a stage where just Moore’s L ...

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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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What’s new from Ciena in optical? The breadth of ...

Once again Ciena is breaking barriers across both performance and footprint-optimized coherent optics, learn about our latest opt ...

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What's in store for Asia Pacific Networking in 20 ...

From 5G to AI to the move to virtualization, Ciena’s Anup Changaroth gives his insights on the major trends that are likely to dr ...

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What will it take to bring quantum cryptography t ...

The coming of quantum computing requires a revolution in security and encryption to keep data safe. Ciena’s Patrick Scully detail ...

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What is ZR+?

ZR+ means different things to different people. Learn about the wide range of different solutions encompassed by the generic term ...

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