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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 future is near. Is your business network read ...

New technologies are changing the way we do business, so enterprises cannot be limited by network performance. Learn why your IP ...

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The key ingredients you need to be the master che ...

Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how operators can benefit from following the right recipe to automate the photonic layer.

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The Reality of Applying SDN WAN in R&E Networ ...

Many R&E networks are at the forefront of SDN deployments, but now risk replacing hardware silos with software silos via a multi- ...

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The Road to Autonomous Networks: Learning to Thri ...

In the third and final installment of his 3-part series on the Road to Autonomous Networks, Ciena’s Joe Marsella details the bene ...

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The Road to Autonomous Networks: Taking a New Path

In the second of a 3-part series on the Road to Autonomous Networks, Ciena’s Joe Marsella details the journey of Our Hero as he s ...

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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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The submarine network seascape in 2020

Ciena’s submarine networking expert, Brian Lavallée, highlights key areas for focused innovation throughout 2020.

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The Top 3 Take-Aways from NGON 2017

What does lemon pie have to do with next-gen optical network architectures? Quite a bit actually, explains Ciena's Helen Xenos.

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The winning hand in your network operations trans ...

How is Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan offering taking network operations to a new level of intelligent software control and aut ...

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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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Transforming service delivery without the risk: T ...

Here are two key use cases that demonstrate how Ciena and Atos’ technology and partnership delivers no-risk network transformatio ...

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Two tools to help visualize and simplify your dat ...

Amidst the rising complexity of networks, and influx of data, service providers are striving to keep operational complexity under ...

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Up your IQ: Top 3 signs it’s time to deploy SDN a ...

Get up-to-speed on the Essentials of NFV and SDN with two experts from Ciena's Blue Planet team, and in additional you'll get a f ...

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Upskilling staff through disruptive times

As enterprises change how they architect networks, they must train staff. Everyone involved—vendors, partners, enterprises—must p ...

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Using “The 3 V’s of Automation” to maximize autom ...

For traditional Communications Service Providers (CSPs), the barriers to applying automation are coming down faster than ever bef ...

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Vendor of the Year: Ciena brings home 3 MEF award ...

The future of both Ciena and the networking industry was on display this week at the MEF’s GEN15 in Dallas, Texas.

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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: ...

The increasing demand for capacity is driving the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure for R&E

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Virtualizing the edge, colocation, and open topol ...

Are you ready to see how virtual network services are getting real? Marco Naveda explains how at this year’s MEF18 Proof of Conce ...

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Virtualizing the World of Cable

It’s not surprising that cable operators are virtualizing their networks. Not only is it the logical step to reduce power and sav ...

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Visualizing the Future of Networking

Ciena has unveiled Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan (MCP), providing real-time software control and advanced visualization ac ...

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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | Septemb ...

This week, we're sharing 5 things from a CX Award judge, helping you ensure your network analytics solution can drive intelligent ...

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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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What is Distributed NFV and why do you need it?

Ciena's Brian Lavallée introduces the concept of Distributed NFV, or D-NFV, and why service providers are increasingly looking at ...

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