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Get Ready for 5G. Deliver IP Differently.

The success of any next-generation network implementation depends on an extremely efficient IP network that delivers standards-ba ...

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GeoMesh: Integrated Test Set Capabilities

Ciena is enabling significant opportunities to increase revenues by offering market-leading 100G-based transatlantic and transpac ...

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GeoMesh: Global Submarine Networking for a Web-sc ...

GeoMesh epitomizes the convergence of submarine and terrestrial network and web-scale technologies, yielding previously impossibl ...

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GeoMesh Extreme. Land. Sea. Cloud. Networks Unite.

Today, submarine cables carry 99 percent of all intercontinental communication over more than 400 submarine telecom cables spanni ...

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Gaming at the Cloud Edge

Today's gamers are tied to a single platform, physical hardware, and long software download times. But gamers are demanding more ...

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Futuriom Report: 5G Catalysts Telco Cloud and Edg ...

The following Futuriom report identifies a wide range of applications that will require 5G to deliver the best user experience.

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Futuriom Market Leadership Brief: Building the re ...

This Ciena sponsored market leadership brief highlights how operators that can implement an agile, high-performance edge infrastr ...

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Four Things to Know about Peering Connectivity

This paper explains how the ability to securely deliver high-quality video makes peering connectivity an attractive alternative f ...

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Five Data Center Federation Factors to Help Prepa ...

A Data Center Federation (DCF) can make a pivotal difference in helping to keep content and data consumers working, playing, and ...

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Fiber Deep for Success in the Gigabit Era

This paper shows how an operator can get ahead of the trends through the use of digital optics and packet networking.

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Expanding Demands Need Routing and Switching Perf ...

This paper shows how to gain the most from metro transformation initiatives with a simple, scalable, and programmable approach.

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Exceeding 100 Gb/s in Research and Education Netw ...

This paper reviews the attributes of coherent systems in light of the challenges faced by system designers to realize 100 Gb/s op ...

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Evolution of Network Design

Networking designs have had to are shifting to add complexity and operational pressures.

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Ethernet Services in an IP World

Ethernet as a data networking technology has been in wide use for many years, keeping pace with the network speeds demanded by ap ...

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Elegant Migration from TDM to a Modern Routing an ...

IP/MPLS approaches guarantee their ability to support legacy customers and help operators pursue emerging opportunities, such as ...

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Driving Multi-Tenant Data Center Integration and ...

This paper explores these challenges and describes Ciena’s expertise in planning, designing, and deploying networks in support of ...

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Doyle Research: Considerations for the Orchestrat ...

This white paper uncovers the benefits of SD-WAN for enterprises and how service providers can seize the opportunity of managed S ...

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Delivering Profitable DCI Services

Enterprises are shifting more of their IT spending from private cloud to hybrid and public cloud services, triggering new Data Ce ...

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Defending the Smart City

With all the hype around ‘Smart’ Cities, you would think they are ubiquitous. With their many potential threats to the network ut ...

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Creating Intelligent Hybrid Operations

This paper will explore the ongoing changes in operational models, what the new operations model could look like, and the role of ...

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Coordinated IP/Optical Control: Next Generation C ...

The momentum for converged multi-layer operations has begun, and industry innovators are discovering the benefits. There is chang ...

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Considerations for Building a Healthcare Sector P ...

Precise information is the lifeblood of healthcare sector enterprises, empowering providers to deliver the best possible patient ...

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Coherent Optics: 100G, 400G, & Beyond

This white paper provides the industry’s most in-depth look at the current state and future trajectory of coherent optical transm ...

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Cignal AI Report: Tracking the Deployment of 3rd ...

This report from Andrew Schmitt, Cignal AI, covers coherent technology’s evolution, market success, and the road ahead.

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