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4 Reasons Enterprises Love SD-WAN

Lee Doyle of Doyle Research explains why SD-WAN services are so attractive to enterprises, and what service providers can do to r ...

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Ciena's 9 predictions for networks and tech in 20 ...

Some of Ciena's most distinguished experts and execs give their predictions for the upcoming year.

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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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SDN: a not-so-secret ingredient for transforming ...

Software-defined networking or SDN is the key to opening up ICT change programmes.

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Our Gift to You: Ciena's Ultimate eBook Holiday B ...

Just in time for the holidays, we've made our three most popular technology eBooks available for download, and added two new refe ...

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Why Model-Driven Templating Matters with SDN and ...

In the move to SDN and NFV architectures, model-driven templating plays a pivotal role in helping develop and deliver new service ...

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Best Practice Advice for Deploying SDN and NFV

Here is some advice for network operators looking to migrate to SDN and NFV.

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3 Key Research Trends Poised to Change Our Lives

Ciena's Renee Reinke highlights three key trends in research enabled by supercomputing and the networks that connect them that wi ...

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MEF16: We have a winner!

Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet division details the multi-vendor Proof of Concept demo the team conducted with CenturyLink and ...

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No Time for Rest: Windstream’s Kelly Crosby detai ...

A fascinating Q/A with Windstream Senior Product Manager Kelly Crosby on their expanded Wave service, changing approaches to virt ...

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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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SD-WAN: Threat or Opportunity?

Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet team says SD-WAN in its purest form can be considered a threat to a service provider's traditio ...

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5 key characteristics of a successful DevOps depl ...

DevOps enables better collaboration and thus improving operational efficiency, speeding innovation, and accelerating

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Openness: Ciena’s guiding principle for customer ...

Ciena CEO Gary Smith details how the guiding principle of openness drives Ciena's innovation agenda and how we solve the challeng ...

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Cable in 2020: The Role Virtualization and 'Fiber ...

A look at how virtualization and fiber deep will “bring it home” for MSOs in the OTT future

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Q&A session: Blue Orbit and Service Provider ...

Ciena's new Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit is creating a buzz with our customers and partners. Two of our experts explain what it is ...

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Five key APIs to enable the concept of SDN-based ...

Ciena's Fady Masoud details the APIs that enable SDN-based virtual networks and help accelerate the evolution toward open cloud n ...

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Automating the WAN with SDN – Avoiding “Hurry Up ...

“Hurry up and wait!” Too often, this is how pioneers in NFV-based services feel with WAN connectivity that takes weeks to be prov ...

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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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Karl Horne Q&A: MDSO is the Key to Rolling wi ...

Karl Horne—Ciena’s CTO for the Asia Pacific region —explains how multi-domain service orchestration (MDSO) is crucial to helping ...

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Blue Planet Q&A: Services, SDN, and NFV

Ciena's Joe Cumello and Pamela Morgan talk to Telecom Ramblings about their experiences rolling out our Blue Planet portfolio wit ...

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12 Questions Answered about Submarine Data Center ...

As the recent news that Microsoft and Facebook plan to build a subsea cable across Atlantic demonstrates, the need to optimize in ...

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Nothing but Growth for UK Virtualisation Market A ...

What did a recent study of UK business demand for virtual IT services and NFV reveal? The results may surprise you.

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Ciena's Keri Gilder on Trends, Traction, DevOps a ...

Did you know that over 40% of the Saudi Arabian population is under the age of 18? Did you also know that they consume an average ...

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