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Traditional PON Versus Mixed PON/Active Architect ...
This business case outlines a pluggable mixed PON/active architecture based on Ciena’s Universal Aggregation solution, which allo ...
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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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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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Heavy Reading: Achieving WAN Automation Today
This white paper provides an overview of SDN-based WAN automation and focuses on the drivers and benefits of WAN automation, the ...
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Cable's Move to Network Automation
This white paper summarizes the quantitative and qualitative findings and how cable MSOs can use this information as they pursue ...
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Omdia: 100G Everywhere for Carriers and Enterpris ...
The 400G capability will be extended into the aggregation segment of the network to handle the growth of 100G access links.
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5G Converged Optical Fiber and Microwave Transport
Ciena and Aviat collaborate on a vision for a converged transport network that addresses these needs holistically.
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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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Senza-Fili Consulting: 5G in Europe: More than a ...
5G is more than a new access technology. Unlike previous mobile generations which were defined by the air interface, 5G will chan ...
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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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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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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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The Importance of Military Satellite Communication
Space Force ground stations are being challenged to manage ever more satellites, bandwidth, mission-critical applications, and se ...
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Cable's Fiber Outlook Survey Report November 2020
This Cable's Fiber Outlook Survey Report is produced by Light Reading and Heavy Reading in partnership with SCTE-ISBE. Ciena brin ...
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A Self-Optimizing Fabric for the 5G Era
This paper examines how self-optimizing fabrics forming a nervous system for the world of interconnected smart things could help ...
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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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Cable ISPs: Securing the Future with Fiber Deep
This paper explores the growing importance of the Internet to MSOs and offers steps for how to fortify the quality, performance, ...
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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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5 Key Wireline Network Improvements Needed for 5G
This paper defines five key wireline network improvements that are needed for a service provider to be ready to deploy 5G service ...
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Why the time is now to transition TDM to IP
As legacy TDM networks reach end-of-life status, coupled with support personnel becoming increasingly scarce, service providers a ...
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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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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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Multi-service Substation WAN Backbone: Ready for ...
Broadband service deployment has historically been limited in rural communities, creating challenges for residents, especially du ...
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SDN and NFV: The Brains Behind the Smart City
In major metropolitan areas and smaller cities alike, governments are considering SDN and NFV to deliver the agility and flexibil ...