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More than you ever imagined possible

Evolve your network faster. Scale your network smarter.

New users, applications, and surging content are creating an explosion in demand for connectivity.

Networks must quickly evolve and become more open, automated, and simple. It’s the only way to capitalize on new revenue opportunities and deliver a compelling end-customer experience.

Together we can build smarter, faster, more scalable networks to transform your reach and performance. Discover how.

Customer Success Stories

Telefónica Deutschland’s evolution to an open, software-defined network with Blue Planet Software

To meet future 5G demands and enable use cases like network slicing, Telefónica Deutschland sought to move to an open, automated network that enabled them to reduce costs, avoid vendor lock-in, and better serve its customers.

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Featured technology and services

Waveserver® family and 6500 RLS

Videos
Chalk Talk - Ciena’s Waveserver 5 compact interconnect platform

Get more 100GE/400GE at any distance. In this video, Joe Shapiro, Sr. Director PLM, introduces the Waveserver 5 platform built to solve network scalability challenges
Data Sheets
Waveserver 5 compact interconnect platform

Waveserver 5 compact interconnect platform, optimized for 100GbE and 400GbE applications, provides the industry’s highest capacity and lowest cost per bit for any distance.
Videos
Chalk Talk - Waveserver Ai

Waveserver Ai: Stackable interconnect platform purpose-built for high capacity, high density and low power applications such as data center interconnect
Ciena's 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS)

The 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS) is a compact, simple-to-deploy, photonic layer solution that improves scalability, reduces footprint, and offers more flexibility and programmability. It provides highly dense ROADM and amplifier configurations.
Reveal the path to intelligent automation

Automation is crucial for meeting customer expectations. But operational silos and data fragmentation mean you lack the clear visibility needed to automate operations. Discover how, by synchronizing inventory and network data, you can reveal a clear path to automation
Articles
How pluggables fit into Ciena’s coherent optical investment strategy

Greg Friesen gives an update on Ciena's coherent optical investment strategy and provides some insights into what is next, including details around what Ciena’s coherent pluggable solution offering will look like.

Adaptive IP™

Articles
Predictions: Ciena CTO Steve Alexander looks at the future of networks in 2020 and beyond

Ciena’s CTO Steve Alexander discusses key trends that will shape the industry in 2020 and beyond including, 5G, edge computing, and AI.
Podcasts
Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 27: Where Do We Go From Here? 2020 Predictions for Making Networks Faster, Closer, Smarter and Safer

Ciena’s CTO Steve Alexander discusses key trends shaping networks in 2020 and beyond, including 5G, edge computing, and AI.
White Papers
Why the time is now to transition TDM to IP

As legacy TDM networks reach end-of-life status, coupled with support personnel becoming increasingly scarce, service providers are seeking innovative ways to continue supporting legacy TDM and modern packet services.
eBooks
Network Transformation, Here and Now

This eBook helps answer that question by exploring the challenges and barriers that often stifle modernization and outlines a well-proven methodology.

Liquid Spectrum™

Infobriefs
Liquid Spectrum. Let the Benefits Flow.

Improved visibility. Automated processes. And increased network capacity and service availability from any given WDM investment. These are the benefits of leveraging Ciena’s Liquid Spectrum™.
Articles
Ciena unveils Liquid Spectrum: The future of software-defined optical networks

For all the “agile” innovation over the last decade, today's optical networks are still predominantly static. This changes with Ciena's Liquid Spectrum.
Infographics and posters
Interactive Guide to Enabling a Programmable Optical Infrastructure

What do FlexO and programmable coherent technology have to do with next-gen networks? Find out in this interactive guide.
Case Studies
Windstream: Intelligent Multi-layer/Multi-domain Network Automation with SDN

Building a programmable SDN-based network with Ciena's Blue Planet Platform is helping Windstream to simplify operations. This case study provides: an overview of Windstream's network automation project and an assessment of the key business drivers,

800G

Articles
Whirlwind tour: How 800G is already benefiting network providers around the world

Did you know that Ciena has shipped more than 25,000 800G modems to 140 unique operators around the world? How is this transforming networks and the services delivered? Join Ciena’s Helen Xenos as she takes you on a tour around the world to get a peek at the impacts already being realized.
Infobriefs
Building More Scalable and Programmable Networks with WaveLogic 5 Extreme

Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme helps network providers modernize their networks to maintain the rapid innovation that delivers the services customers crave.
Data Center Interconnect

Data Center Interconnect (DCI) plays a critical role in meeting the explosion of data and non-stop demand for cloud-based services.
Press Releases
Altibox Carrier Deploys 800G with Ciena to Fuel Digital Demands Across Europe

Altibox is utilizing Ciena’s Waveserver 5 coherent optical solution to create a robust and flexible network for cloud providers, global webscale providers and large enterprises.

The world’s leading companies rely on Ciena

Ciena delivers best-in-class networking technology through high-touch consultative relationships. Our solutions are deployed in more than 1,700 customer networks worldwide. We support 85 percent of the world’s largest communications service providers, as well as regional service providers, submarine network operators, data and cloud operators, enterprises, public sector, and all levels of education. We work more than 1,300 of the world’s largest, most complex networks.

Sample customers include Vodafone, Colt, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Google, Telia, Interxion, Equinix, Amazon.

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