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Traditional PON Versus Mixed PON/Active Architect ...

The Passive Optical Network (PON) architecture employs shared fiber to achieve cost savings for network operators, which is cost- ...

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An Ultra-Low-Latency Solution for Utilities

This paper introduces a deterministic packet transport method of achieving guaranteed latency for critical traffic being transpor ...

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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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Secure Supply Chain for Governments: 2020 securit ...

Ciena takes a comprehensive approach toward maintaining the security and continuity of its supply chain.

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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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How Agencies Are Modernizing Networks for Mission ...

Government employees everywhere have transitioned to remote work environments. The networks on which they rely must be able to ad ...

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Broadband Success Partners: Cable Operators & ...

Broadband Success Partners interviewed 24 cable executives from network engineering and business services to capture their insigh ...

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Omdia: 2020 Optical Network Hardware Vendor Score ...

This Scorecard evaluates the top optical network equipment vendors on criteria using concrete data and metrics, including direct ...

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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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New Network Design for Transporting 5G Converged ...

Holistically speaking, a mobile network is a massive wireline network with radios hanging off its edges.

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IHS Markit Optical Network Hardware Vendor Scorec ...

IHS Markit’s annual optical network hardware vendor scorecard (2018) is an attempt to quantify the opinions of service providers. ...

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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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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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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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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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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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The Converged Interconnect Network

Ciena’s Fiber Deep Solution for the Converged Interconnect Network enables architectural and service convergence over a common CI ...

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Verizon, Ciena and Network Modernization

With Ciena, Verizon was able to build a parallel network — minimizing disruptions and reducing risk to end users — that was less ...

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The Impact of OTT Services on the Mobile Backhaul ...

Many mobile operators have deployed a traditional IPoDWDM architecture for mobile backhaul, which was sufficient when network tra ...

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Upgrading R&E Networks to Bolster Bandwidth, ...

Research and Education (R&E) organizations are looking for new and better ways to provide network services to campus communities. ...

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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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Cable's Fiber Outlook Survey Report

In this report, we present the responses to that comprehensive survey, look at what cable’s fiber-feeding frenzy is fueling and e ...

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Introducing the Adaptive Network Vision

Users’ ever-increasing expectations—and the technology breakthroughs that continue to feed them—have created an unprecedented lev ...

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25GS-PON: Maintaining MSO broadband dominance

This paper explores 25 gigabit symmetric PON (25GS-PON) as the broad-scale intercept for PON in cable. 25GS-PON meets key require ...

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