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Cable’s Fiber Outlook Survey – 87% Plan Aggregati ...
As part of the annual “Cable’s Fiber Outlook Survey Report”, Heavy Reading surveyed over 200 respondents to get insights on Distr ...

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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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Battle of the bands. Get more fiber capacity usin ...
Which technology will prevail in the battle of the bands? Conventional C + L-band? New L-band options combined with an Extended 6 ...

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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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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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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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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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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’s new ‘Smart Raman’ provides Raman gain wit ...
Ciena has recently introduced an innovative new Raman solution that eliminates the pain points of previous Raman products and eve ...

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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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Ciena takes home 2019 Leading Lights’ Company of ...
It was a momentous night for the Ciena team at Light Reading’s annual Leading Lights Awards gala this week. Ciena was recognized ...

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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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Optical Network Expert Series: Designing programm ...
Ciena’s optical network expert, David Boertjes, discusses the programmable infrastructure needed to achieve a near-zero margin ne ...

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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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800G is here: pushing the boundaries of what your ...
The wait is over. 800G has been tested and proven in real production networks with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme. Learn about how t ...

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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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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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Traveling Farther Just Got Smarter with 300G 8QAM ...
Ciena, CANARIE and StarLight collaborate on a 300G trail over a live research network using 8QAM modulation.

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Expanding business models of managed wave service ...
It goes without saying that no other method of network transport has ever surpassed the speed and performance that is delivered o ...

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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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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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Keep ahead of demand with PlannerPlus—another win ...
Hoping for a way to build out network capacity incrementally to get the most return from capex as soon as possible? Marie Fiala e ...
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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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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 ...