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Brilliant Together

True partnerships are all about doing more and becoming greater together, and Ciena and Zayo achieve better outcomes because of their partnership. Ciena delivers market intelligence and geoanalytics to profile multiple accounts and thousands of contacts, training programmes, workshops, and sales materials that enable Zayo teams across Europe to grow new opportunities.

This page brings together all the great content you’ll need to build on our successes.

Visit these links and see how Ciena and Zayo can align, engage, and build on an outstanding partnership.

Sales training portal

Ciena and Zayo have partnered to provide sales teams with customised training programs. Here’s your one-stop-shop for better customer conversations, increasing your productivity and adding more value.

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Explore IP/Optical Convergence and Ciena’s solutions.

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When it comes to IP/Optical convergence – can you see the forest for the trees?

Are you finding yourself getting stuck in all the noise and details surrounding IP/Optical convergence? Not sure where you should start? Ciena’s Brodie Gage shares his learnings from talking with customers and the keys for developing a successful
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Own the Edge: Ciena’s leaders discuss the role of IP/Optical convergence

Ciena's leaders talk about how IP/Optical convergence can transform your metro and edge network to increase operational automation and simplicity et al.
Infographics and posters
IP/Optical Convergence: Are you ready?

Discover some of the biggest barriers to IP/Optical Convergence and how Ciena can help.
White Papers
A Framework for IP/Optical Convergence: Building from Existing Networks

IP/Optical convergence can play a key role in helping CSPs address these, but where does the path to architecture evolution begin?

Learn about our exciting next-gen optical networking and what the edge means to enterprises and telecom operators.

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3 videos about next-generation 400G networking you must watch

Don’t miss these 3 videos that explain what the next-generation optical networking is, how it works, and how it was developed.
Chalk Talk - The Future of Networks

Ciena CTO Steve Alexander provides his insights into the future direction of critical communications networks to support ever increasing and changing application and service demands.
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What “the edge” means for telcos

Telecom operators must prepare for the accelerated distribution of processing capabilities toward the network edge. To do that, they need to strategize for the edge cloud. ABI Research’s Dimitris Mavrakis details the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead.

These technical resources explore optical transport networking and show you how to get more from your optical network.

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.
What is OTN (Optical Transport Networking)?

OTN—or Optical Transport Network—is a telecommunications industry standard protocol— defined in various ITU Recommendations, such as G.709 and G.798.
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5 questions to evaluate OTN switching for your network

Paul Littlewood, principal engineer in Ciena's CTO office and co-author of the
Infobriefs
Primer: A Guide to 400G Optical Networks

This guide covers all you need to know about 400G, the technology that supports it, and how it is being used in the marketplace.
Videos
Chalk Talk - WaveLogic 5 Nano 100G-400G Footprint-Optimized Coherent Optical Solutions

Joe Shapiro, Sr. Director Product Line Management, describes how coherent technology is evolving across networks.
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In the Lab: Ciena's 6500 T-Series: Terabit switching

Ciena’s Tony Bernola gives an overview of the new switching hardware on Ciena’s 6500 T-Series Packet Optical platform.

Meet the team

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Job Role at Ciena: Account Director, Hometown: Enfield, United Kingdom

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Job Role at Ciena: CMS Consultant, Hometown: Hertford, United Kingdom

Anna Kett

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Job Role at Ciena: Field and Channel Marketing, Hometown: London, United Kingdom

Geoffrey Robinson

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Job Role at Ciena: Senior Sales Engineer, Hometown: Hatfield, United Kingdom

Mark Burton

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Job Role at Ciena: UK & Western Europe Managing Director, Hometown: London, United Kingdom

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