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Applying Packet Technologies to Solve Modern Heal ...

Read this paper to learn how packet networking solutions from Ciena can help Healthcare IT modernize their networking capabilitie ...

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Impact of 5G on Wireline Networks in Asia-Pacific

Understand why MNOs in the Asia-Pacific region need to take action now on an integrated wireless/wireline planning approach to so ...

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Beyond Network Modernization: Advanced Analytics ...

This paper reviews the challenges and the practical solution of using analytics tools to enhance understanding of the network and ...

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Blue Planet SDN and NFV are Changing the Game

Ciena can help facilitate a network operator’s SDN and NFV migration, delivering integrated end-to-end management, virtualization ...

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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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Smarter Security for Financial Networks with In-f ...

Both at-rest and in-flight encrypted data are typically implemented in conjunction, and complement each other as part of a holist ...

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Bolstering Higher Education Networks to Invigorat ...

This paper summarizes the connectivity challenges higher education institutions are facing today and recommends DCI approaches th ...

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Packets for All

For decades, TDM was the backbone for global bandwidth, transporting voice, data, and video. In 2012, global bandwidth was transf ...

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IHS Markit 2017 Optical Equipment Vendor Leadersh ...

IHS Markit’s annual optical leadership survey is an attempt to quantify the opinions of service providers. Download the report su ...

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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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Cable in 2020: Agile and Closer to the User

Cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs) are content-driven businesses currently seeing new and broad opportunities for expansion.

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Transforming Banking Networks to Support Innovati ...

This paper summarizes key trends influencing digital banking, the impacts on IT, and how banks can use Data Center Interconnect ( ...

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Interconnecting Data Centers to Support the New W ...

Read this paper and learn how digital health is placing new demands on data center connectivity and how a few steps can help impr ...

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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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Quantifying the Business Benefits of NFV-based Ma ...

As much as SDN and NFV are about technology innovation, they are also about business innovation. New service descriptions, servic ...

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NFV and SDN: The Next Step in the Evolution of th ...

In this white paper, CED, a publication focused on the MVPD segment, explores virtualization benefits and obstacles as well as ho ...

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IDC Executive Insights: Transitioning Toward a So ...

The results of the IDC Asia/Pacific WAN and Communications Survey, 2015, show that enterprises see the need for network to be not ...

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Technology Innovation for Web-scale Data Center I ...

Ciena’s solutions, rooted in the company’s industry leadership in DCI applications, enable data center and network operators to a ...

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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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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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MSOs Take Ethernet Business Services By Storm

This paper discusses the rise of EBS as an appealing alternative to traditional business services.

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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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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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Small Cell Technology, Big Business Opportunity

Small cells allow the mobile network to improve in both coverage and capacity, which facilitates web-scale architectures even fur ...

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