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Joe Marsella

Vice President, Product Line Management – Metro & Edge

Joe Marsella

Vice President, Product Line Management – Metro & Edge

Joe Marsella is Vice President of Product Line Management (PLM) for Ciena’s Metro & Edge products & solutions. In this role, he is responsible for all IP/MPLS, Ethernet, & Broadband products targeted to the Metro & Edge of the network including Ciena’s Mobile, Enterprise, Residential & Converged IP/Broadband oriented solutions.

Joe has more than 20 years of experience in the software and telecommunications industry, along with a strong background in SDN, NFV, orchestration, photonics, DWDM, OTN, Ethernet, IP/MPLS and multi-layer Control Planes. Since joining Ciena in 1997, he has held various roles including most recently the VP PLM Routing & Switching, VP Global Sales Engineering, CTO for EMEA and multiple positions in both Product Line Management (PLM) and Engineering across Ciena’s transport, switching, routing and software product portfolios. In these positions, he contributed to Ciena’s SDN/NFV portfolio, helped develop the global packet-optical switching business and ran Ciena’s global metro and core optical Transport portfolio. Prior to Ciena, Joe was a principal member technical staff at Siemens where he led software integration for Siemens’s Cable Telephony Product.

Joe has a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Computer Information Systems from Clemson University, a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from both Purdue University and EASC/EAP in Paris.

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Insights from Joe Marsella

The path to better broadband: How to unlock the value of your access networks

Operators are facing a critical decision when it comes to deploying their broadband access networks. Ciena's Joe Marsella explains how you can get on a better path to unlocking the value of your fiber and ensuring long-term success in an evolving

More choices to converge your network: Introducing new members of the WaveRouter Family

The WaveRouter family is getting bigger, by going smaller. Ciena’s Joe Marsella explains how you can now get the benefits of WaveRouter in more capacities and form factors to converge your metro networks.

When it comes to 5G, the only path that matters is yours

The closed and inflexible mobile networks of the past are no longer welcome. Find out how Ciena is helping customers benefit from a more open and adaptable 5G xHaul transport network.

When it comes to 5G, the only path that matters is yours

The closed and inflexible mobile networks of the past are no longer welcome. Find out how Ciena is helping customers benefit from a more open and adaptable 5G xHaul transport network.

Ciena's disruptive broadband access architecture

A disruptive broadband access market demands an entirely different solution – a disruptive network architecture. Ciena's Joe Marsella lays out a blueprint for a next-generation broadband architecture.

Ciena's disruptive broadband access architecture

A disruptive broadband access market demands an entirely different solution – a disruptive network architecture. Ciena's Joe Marsella lays out a blueprint for a next-generation broadband architecture.

Want to take your IP network to new heights? Look no further than Ciena.

It is no longer a question of if people want a new way to build their IP networks, but how. Ciena’s Joe Marsella explains how the innovations Ciena has made to deliver open, automated, and lean IP benefit our customers and have influenced how the

Want to take your IP network to new heights? Look no further than Ciena.

It is no longer a question of if people want a new way to build their IP networks, but how. Ciena’s Joe Marsella explains how the innovations Ciena has made to deliver open, automated, and lean IP benefit our customers and have influenced how the

Delivering true 5G: are we ready?

We discussed with Ciena’s Joe Marsella how mobile and wholesale network operators are gearing up to capitalize on the benefits and opportunities of 5G – and how technologies such as Network Slicing will play a key role.

How to differentiate your customer experience with advanced network analytics

Ciena’s Joe Marsella, points out that when it comes to delivering a winning customer experience and staying ahead of your competitors, network data may have all the answers.

The Road to Autonomous Networks: Learning to Thrive in a Brave New World

In the third and final installment of his 3-part series on the Road to Autonomous Networks, Ciena’s Joe Marsella details the benefits of detailed analytics and new applications that Our Hero can tap into now that the dream of an intelligent,

The Road to Autonomous Networks: Taking a New Path

In the second of a 3-part series on the Road to Autonomous Networks, Ciena’s Joe Marsella details the journey of Our Hero as he struggles to make the dream of an intelligent, self-optimizing network a reality.

Envisioning Intelligent Ops – Turning the Dream into a Reality

In the first of a 3-part series on the Road to Autonomous Networks, Ciena’s Joe Marsella details the journey of Our Hero as he struggles to make the dream of an intelligent, self-optimizing network a reality.

Why data security is more important than ever

Joe Marsella, CTO EMEA at Ciena, discusses the implications of optical fibre hacking and why a holistic security strategy is essential.

A recent IDC report predicts the worldwide SDN market for the enterprise and cloud service provider segments could grow from $960 million to more than $8 billion by 2018.

We sit down with Joe Marsella, Ciena's CTO for the European region, to get a status update on the European market and his sense of what trends are coming for 2016

Defining the 3 Factions of SDN

This post defines the three factions of Software Defined Networking.