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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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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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Intelligent Data - Driven Operations with AIOps

In this white paper, Heavy Reading focuses on artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) and the emerging role of AI in mu ...

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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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IHS Markit: 2019 Optical Vendor Scorecard Ciena E ...

This IHS Markit Scorecard evaluates the top global optical network equipment vendors. This particular 2019 ‘excerpt’ report was p ...

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Inventory as a Cyber Security Foundation

This paper examines some ways organizations attempt to manage inventory. It reviews three primary methods, their strengths and we ...

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Ovum: Optical Networks Booming in India

India has been the best-performing optical networking market in 2017. This report highlights the optical networking market share ...

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Campus PON

Over the course of the last 20-plus years, the cost to deploy fiber to the home (FTTH) has come down dramatically (from ~$4,000/H ...

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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: 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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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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Network Automation WP | Ciena

This white paper summarizes the quantitative and qualitative findings and how cable MSOs can use this information as they pursue ...

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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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Making IPoDWDM a Reality

The commercialization of 400G coherent pluggable optics in QSFP-DD and OSFP form factors has sparked a resurgence of interest in ...

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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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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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What Could You Do With 100 Gbps Coherent PON?

Download this white paper prepared for SCTE regarding what you can do with 100 Gbps Coherent PON.

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The evolution of the optical line terminal

Passive optical networks (PONs) have revolutionized the telecommunications industry by providing high-speed broadband access to e ...

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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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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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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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Cable's Fiber Outlook Survey Report January 2020

Although few cablecos have actually deployed Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) technology en masse yet, it's viewed by many c ...

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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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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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