No Time for Rest: Windstream’s Kelly Crosby details Wave services rollout

A fascinating Q/A with Windstream Senior Product Manager Kelly Crosby on their expanded Wave service, changing approaches to virtualization, and how the on-demand economy is accelerating growth across the board.

What is Distributed NFV and why do you need it?

Ciena's Brian Lavallée introduces the concept of Distributed NFV, or D-NFV, and why service providers are increasingly looking at it as they begin to roll out virtualized network functions to their customers.

North Sea Pathways: Digital Oilfields to Ultra-Secure Data Centers

Tampnet, a Norwegian based global operator, uses Ciena gear to support the operation of the largest offshore multi-terabit, low latency optical network in the North Sea, which reliably serves over 240 offshore assets such mobile rigs, Oil&Gas Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) platforms, and exploration rigs.

How I learned to stop worrying and trust my routes

Ciena Blue Planet unveils the dawn of service orchestration

Today Ciena’s Blue Planet division unveiled an entirely new architecture, a disruptive set of enhancements for our Blue Planet solution that change the way technologies like SDN and NFV are implemented to create open and programmable software-driven networks.  We’re calling it the dawn of service orchestration. While Blue Planet has only been a part of the Ciena family for a few months, our R&D team has been hard at work on this new architecture for over a year, adding a set of innovative building blocks that bring SDN, NFV and service orchestration into a unified, open platform.  So what are these new building blocks and what do they do?  Joe Cumello goes through each of them in this blog post.