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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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Envisioning Intelligent Ops – Turning the Dream i ...
In the first of a 3-part series on the Road to Autonomous Networks, Ciena’s Joe Marsella details the journey of Our Hero as he st ...

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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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NFV/SDN eBook: The Perfect Storm of Opportunity i ...
Get your questions answered with Ciena's new NFV and SDN Guide for Carriers and Service Providers, with 35+ pages of insights fro ...

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Carrier Ethernet Expertise: Are you certifiable?
The MEF Certification Committee recently introduced the next generation of its professional certification program by launching th ...

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Lessons from #TMFLive: How the Pace of Operations ...
At last week’s TM Forum Live! event, executives did not shy away from the topic of rethinking their business models in order to a ...

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Getting Ahead of the NFV Complexity Curve with Ad ...
One of the concerns of moving to NFV is that the service delivery model can be more complex than traditional hardware-based netwo ...

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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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7 Steps to Big Data Analytics and AI
Operators are turning to big data tools and analytics to analyze the vast amounts of information they’re accumulating in data lak ...

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Keeping the Lights on With Advanced Analytics
Utility companies are facing increasingly daunting challenges, with Ciena’s Advanced Analytics capabilities, the power to keep th ...

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3 Key Video Transport Innovation Trends We Heard ...
At last week’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, innovation was a consistent theme. Ciena’s Paulina G ...

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Q&A with Sven Freudenfeld of Lanner: Ciena’s ...
Ciena’s Brian Lavallée talks with Sven Freudenfeld of Lanner, Ciena’s newest Blue Orbit partner, about the company and the evolut ...

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3 R&E Network Innovations Changing Lives for ...
Ciena's Renee Reinke highlights three developing network innovations that are enabling the R&E community to make a meaningful imp ...

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Network, heal thyself – with analytics and AI
With the move to virtualized networks, operators need to be able to manage hybrid networks made up of physical and virtual compon ...

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Software-Defined Control – Brought to You by the ...
SDN is an enabling technology for network transformation, but it is not a one-size-fits-all model. Models vary based on the curre ...

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Ciena's Blue Planet and ONAP: Embracing Openness ...
Ciena has officially joined the Linux Foundation's Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) project. Nirav Modi reporting from ...

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4 Things We Learned at #OFC17
From 400G to DCI to software-enabled optical networks, OFC'17 was full of news and innovation. We surveyed our experts for their ...

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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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Learn How Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orches ...
Ciena's Kevin Wade has a few suggested resources for learning how to integrate MDSO into your next-gen OSS strategy

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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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A DevOps Checklist for Traditional Service Provid ...
Can traditional services providers successfully implement a DevOps approach? There are five critical steps that need to be taken ...

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Ciena Emulation Cloud: A 12-Month Report Card
From cloud-based network lab validation to API training to multi-vendor introp testing, Ciena’s new Emulation Cloud environment h ...

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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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D-NFV for enterprises: 5 key benefits
Learn why D-NFV's speed and simplicity might make it the next evolution of how enterprises deploy new network services.