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Behind the scenes with Ciena’s new Blue Planet ar ...
Hear the technology experts that have been working directly on our new Blue Planet architecture over the last year.
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CenturyLink announces network virtualization plan ...
Ciena's Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator is a key part of CenturyLink’s plan to virtualize 40% of its global IP core network location ...
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Apply BPMN to Enable Network Transformation at th ...
It can be easy to gloss over how complicated it is to integrate new SDN and NFV functionality into an existing OSS. But this inte ...
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TOSCA and YANG? It’s not either/or...it’s both
Ciena's new Blue Planet architecture leverages a number of information models and orchestration tools – including TOSCA and NetCo ...
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Don’t sell it short: 200G can extend far past the ...
Data Center Interconnect (DCI) isn't just about the metro anymore. That's why today we’re unveiling new capabilities that extend ...
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The SDN Resource Adapter: More than Meets the Eye
While NFV has largely owned the network virtualization industry spotlight of late, there is a rising tide of interest around conf ...
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Detailing Ciena’s massive new 15 Terabit OTN swit ...
This morning Ciena has unveiled a major update to our 5430 Packet-Optical Platform, giving it a massive upgrade to 15 Terabits of ...
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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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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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Q&A with Ciena CEO Gary Smith on Cyan Acquisi ...
Ciena today completed its acquisition of Cyan, a leading provider of next-gen software and platforms to enable SDN networks.
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OTN vs SONET/SDH: Comparing the differences
After nearly 25 years since the introduction of SONET/SDH, the evolution of these standards has ceased, and the majority of SONET ...
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Ciena’s new Waveserver: a dream machine for data ...
Ciena introduces the Waveserver™, a compact and purpose-built platform capable of enabling massive multi-terabit bandwidth for me ...
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Ciena’s WaveLogic 3 and Ericsson help Telstra ach ...
Ericsson today released the latest progress and accomplishments with its trans-Australian network deployment with Telstra – inclu ...
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The Metro gets a brand new 100G architecture opti ...
Traditionally, operators have had to choose between two types of photonic architectures when deploying an optical network: a pass ...
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Ciena’s new coherent chipsets raise the optical b ...
Ciena has unveiled two new coherent chipsets that represent the latest innovations with our WaveLogic 3 technology.
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Ciena goes web-scale with new coherent, metro and ...
This is the first in a series of blog posts detailing Ciena’s new products and solutions tailored for a new web-scale world.
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ONOS framework builds out SDN ecosystem
Read Q&A conversation on Open Network Operating System – or ONOS – backed by ON.Lab.
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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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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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Ciena 6500: Extreme Packet Makeover Edition
It’s time to rethink everything you know about Ciena’s 6500 Packet Optical Platform. You’ve known the 6500 as our flagship platfo ...
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Meet the man who pioneered modern DWDM technology
Ciena CTO Steve Alexander has been honored with two IEEE recognitions. In this post, Steve's longtime friend and colleague Joe Be ...
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Ciena’s WaveLogic3 recognised with industry award
Last night was an evening of celebration for Ciena as WaveLogic3 was again recognised with an industry award. Congratulations to ...
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What is an Optical Control Plane?
To help clarify the question of “what is an optical control plane?”, we put together the below infographic that walks through the ...
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Ciena unveils WaveLogic 3 with 400G: What you nee ...
Ciena unveiled WaveLogic 3, the latest generation of coherent optical processors that form the foundation of our next-gen optical ...