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Ciena is the global leader in high-speed connectivity. Our networking systems, interconnects, automation, and services support evolving requirements for AI-ready networks at scale.

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AI WAN

Optimize performance across cloud and AI workloads with high-capacity, low-latency connectivity.

  • Data center interconnect and scale-across networks
  • Managed optical fiber networks
  • AI-ready IP networking

Metro and edge

Simplify, scale, and optimize your metro and edge networks to meet new AI-driven connectivity demands.

  • Metro optical architectures
  • Coherent routing
  • On-demand wavelength services

Long haul

Maximize capacity and operational efficiencies with our innovative, flexible long-haul solutions.

  • Submarine networking
  • Terrestrial long haul

Security

Mitigate security risks and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.

  • Data security and encryption
  • Quantum-safe communications

Data center out-of-band management

Simplify and scale out-of-band management with a fiber-based architecture designed for AI-era data centers.

  • Data center out-of-band management

Network lifecycle

Ensure your network keeps pace with ever-evolving business requirements and industry advancements. Our experts provide a tailored approach to drive success.

  • Network acceleration
  • Network transformation
  • Managed operations
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AI inference demands more dynamic connectivity: Here’s the opportunity for service providers

As AI adoption drives rapid growth in inference alongside continued training demand, enterprise traffic is becoming more distributed, dynamic, and unpredictable. Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explores how service providers can respond with more agile, on-demand connectivity to turn the evolving needs of AI into a new growth opportunity.

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Understanding scale-up and scale-out networks

AI model training depends on dedicated networking architectures designed for different performance requirements. In this video, Spencer Giacalone, Senior Director of Cloud and AI Architecture, explains the roles of scale-up and scale-out networks, why both are essential for AI infrastructure, and how technologies such as NVLink, RoCEv2, and emerging standards enable efficient, high-performance AI networks. He also discusses how Ciena’s Nitro and Vesta products support next-generation XPU connectivity.

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The next phase of AI connectivity: How CSPs can capitalize on emerging demand with NTT, Omdia, and Ciena

In this webinar, explore how AI demand is driving new connectivity requirements across edge, metro, and long-haul networks—from high-capacity wavelength services and dedicated AI connectivity to flexible, on-demand service offerings.

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AI-Ready IP Transport Network Modernization

This eBook examines how service providers can modernize IP transport networks to meet the demands of AI-driven workloads.

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Our commitments to inclusion, social impact, well-being, and sustainability, empower our people to improve their lives and lift those around them.

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Telxius and Ciena Achieve First Live 1.3 Tb/s Data Transmission Across the Atlantic

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