Connecting communities requires significant, long-term investments and, in some cases, unpredictable returns. Ciena helps service providers mitigate the risk by simplifying the complexities of building residential broadband networks. Read application note >

Connecting communities across the globe: Economic prosperity and the ability to work, learn, and play have never been more dependent on reliable, affordable, fast broadband connectivity at home. Learn how Ciena is collaborating with service providers worldwide, such as Openreach, a division of BT, to bridge the digital divide.

Delivering high-quality customer experiences at competitive prices over large areas of sparse and uneven demand requires a flexible infrastructure capable of adapting to the dynamics of each location. Ciena supports service providers in building flexible broadband networks based on openness, modularity, scalability, and convergence. Read application note >

How Regional Service Providers (RSPs) are addressing the digital divide: Highline’s CTO Matt Hayes and Ciena’s CTO of the Americas Kevin Sheehan discuss the many challenges and opportunities involved in rolling out rural broadband—and more.

Delivering digital equity for America’s underserved communities means deploying economically sustainable networks capable of creating jobs and enabling use cases like remote work, telehealth, online education, and emergency assistance. Learn more about how Ciena’s solution is supporting state and local governments in closing the digital divide. Read application note >

Bridging the digital divide in Upstate New York: Learn how Ciena is helping one of New York’s first municipal service providers evolve from slow and spotty broadband service to a modern Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) network.

Amid swelling bandwidth demand and calls for smarter electrical grids, utilities and cooperatives are turning to Ciena to help deliver new and improved broadband services to close the digital divide. Read application note >

Alabama co-op brings gigabit fiber to the home: Founded by local farmers to ensure rural residents were provided with the same opportunities as their urban counterparts, Cullman Electric worked with Ciena to provide a scalable and future-proof middle mile broadband network.

Ciena is helping Cable/MSOs meet evolving customer demands and compete in the broadband market by enabling their Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) strategy, while supporting the adoption of fiber-based access technologies in a Converged Network Infrastructure (CIN). Read application note >

Ciena partners with consultants and engineering firms to assess, scope, plan, and design future-proof networks. Working together, we help service providers deploy and manage modern rural broadband networks. Read application note >

Trusted advisors: Ciena is proud to collaborate with broadband consulting and engineering companies to help network operators reach even the smallest communities. Learn how Ciena worked with Hunt Engineering to bridge the digital divide in the town of Dryden, New York.