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Solution validation is more than testing. It is a strategic advantage.
In an era of AI-scale traffic and constant network change, hoping a solution will work is no longer enough. Ann Cantrell explains how solution validation providers deliver predictability—proving performance and resilience before production and allowing internal teams to stay focused on strategic initiatives, not reactive testing.
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Network management and control without the IT infrastructure burden
As networks scale faster and AI-driven demands intensify, legacy on-premises management infrastructure is becoming a hidden constraint. Ciena’s Derek Edmiston explores how a hosted network control model can remove that burden and help teams focus on operating the network—not the IT infrastructure.
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Episode 93: Blue Planet Customer Conversation Highlights
Blue Planet's Kailem Anderson shares some of the conversations that we had with our customers in 2025 around automation, autonomous networks and providing the best customer experiences.
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1.6Tbps Quantum-Safe Communications
The shift toward quantum-safe communications is not optional—it is inevitable. Ciena’s Waveserver WaveLogic 6 Extreme 1.6T quantum-safe encryption solution was designed with this in mind, supporting QKD system interworking and NIST-certified PQC algorithms – to deliver an always-on, wire-speed encryption solution, without added latency or operational complexity, to ensure confidentiality as data moves between locations, devices, and applications.
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Heavy Reading: Coherent Pluggable Optics Service Provider Survey 2025
Explore how global operators use 400G and 800G coherent pluggables for DCI, metro, and long haul in this independent 2025 Heavy Reading survey.
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Innovation in action: Building tomorrow’s photonic network today with Ciena’s 6500 RLS
Prepare for what’s next, today with Ciena’s 6500 RLS and its innovative capabilities ...
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Scaling transport networks - The transition to Segment Routing
While legacy transport technologies such as MPLS-TP, RSVP-TE, and LDP have served wel...
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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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