With powerful new software and hardware capabilities, Ciena’s 5171 puts more capacity closer to where the demand for bandwidth lives – the network edge. In this Chalk Talk video, Ciena’s Packet expert Wayne Hickey details just how by combining packet and coherent optical technologies in a dense state-of-the-art platform that is also deployable in an outside cabinet for an increased addressable application space.
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