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How open ecosystems will advance CPO adoption
As AI infrastructure scales, the limitations of pluggable optics in the data center are becoming increasingly apparent. Ciena’s Matt Bolig explains how this shift is setting the stage for co-packaged optics to redefine how bandwidth is delivered inside the data center.
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Solve for the invisible: Turning hidden optical risk into stronger network performance
Ciena’s Stan Hawthorne explains why hidden optical issues can quietly undermine capacity, resilience, and customer confidence—and how to act before they do. This is the second in a series of three thought leadership blogs exploring network optimization.
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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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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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