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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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Business Benefits of Automating the Commissioning ...

Automation in service delivery is proven to provide cost reductions and quality improvements, correlating with increased customer ...

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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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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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Achieving Scalable and Cost-Effective Networking ...

This paper will help carriers find out how forward-looking network operators are challenging the traditional approach and address ...

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Automating Service Creation and Provisioning for ...

A seismic shift is underway in today’s networking market. Connectivity services, while vital to the efficient operation of modern ...

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The Adaptive Network Is the Foundation of Persona ...

Whether students are learning from home or in the classroom, networks must be ready to support on-demand, bandwidth-hungry, low-l ...

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Network Strategies to Drive Lower Costs amid High ...

This paper discusses how OTN and MPLS-TP can be jointly deployed to optimize IP router infrastructures.

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Open, Automated, & Programmable Transport Net ...

This white paper provides the industry’s most in-depth look at the current state and future trajectory of open, automated, and pr ...

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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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2019 IHS Markit Optical Vendor Service Provider L ...

The IHS annual optical leadership survey is an attempt to quantify the opinions of service providers.

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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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As Cybersecurity Threats Evolve, Government Netwo ...

As agencies look to modernize their infrastructure, they must also take proactive measures to ensure their network is secure.

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Heavy Reading: The Transformation Choice - Data C ...

As the explosion of data continues, distributed cloud-native applications will dictate how and where data centers are built and d ...

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A Model for Business Case Analysis of C/L-band Ne ...

This white paper presents a model for the analysis of C/L-band business cases, with the objective of enabling network operators

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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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Practical Considerations for Near-Zero Margin Net ...

This paper examines this trend from the equipment design point of view and applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the problem of ...

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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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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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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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Packet Networking: A Reliable and Robust Foundati ...

This paper provides practical guidance for planning packet networking deployments and suggests opportunities for monetizing the c ...

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Is an Organization's WAN the Weakest Link in its ...

Research from Telindus and Ciena shows that more than half of organizations could be vulnerable to data breaches and GDPR non-com ...

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Modernizing Media & Entertainment Networks to ...

This paper characterizes the motivations for network modernization and describes approaches Media and Entertainment companies can ...

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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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