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Spotlight on Trans Americas Fiber System: Innovative connectivity for the Americas
As demand for international bandwidth intensifies, operators need more agile and cost-efficient ways to scale capacity. Learn how TAFS delivers a flexible, open-access submarine network to the Americas, designed to support diverse business and service requirements.
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Episode 96: Autonomous Networks: Getting to Level 5 in the AI Era
Karina Dahlke, Gabriele Di Piazza, and Erik McLaughlin explore what it takes to reach “level five” autonomous networking in the AI era, offering insights on how network experts and engineers at Ciena and Blue Planet give customers the visibility, context, and automation needed to accelerate the journey.
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Network acceleration: Accelerating networks for the AI era
Accelerate networks for the AI era with Ciena Services—simplify complexity, speed deployment, and enable scalable, high-performance connectivity growth.
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Automation and AI for Transport Networks: 2025 Omdia Survey Analysis
Explore Omdia’s survey analysis on automation and AI in transport networks, covering ML, agentic AI adoption, use cases, operator challenges, and what’s next.
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AI is everywhere. But its value only flows where networks can carry it.
AI is scaling beyond the data center into distributed inference across clouds and the...
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Ciena and Meta achieve world record 800 Gb/s across 16,608 km on transpacific submarine cable
As AI-driven demand accelerates, Ciena and Meta have set a new world record — achievi...
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Waveserver E-Series: Cost-Efficient Multi-Service Transport for the Edge
Ciena’s Waveserver E-Series platforms are simple-to-deploy edge demarcation devices e...
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Demo of industry's first 1.6 Tb/s coherent solution
Ciena's Heng Foo describes live demonstration of the world's first 1.6Tb/s coherent s...
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AIOps with Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite
This video shows how Navigator Network Control Suite provides AI-driven insights to h...
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Chalk Talk: Programmable photonics, get more capacity and resiliency from your open line system
Ciena’s photonics expert David Boertjes explains how Ciena’s programmable photonics e...
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Advantages of Managed Spectrum Service vs Dark Fiber + DIY in the Enterprise Market
As network capacity increases, the monthly OPEX for the managed 100G wave service to...
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On Demand: Your best route to IP/Optical convergence
Hear what makes Ciena’s Coherent Networking approach successful.
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