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How Ciena helped a regional carrier reignite its marketing efforts
The Ciena Partner Network’s Marketing as a Service program delivered robust engagement and new business opportunities
Ciena’s award winning Marketing as a Service (MaaS) program enables partners to leverage a dedicated team and choose from a number of options to support jointly developed business and sales objectives.
How Ciena’s model for partnership success is impacting customer outcomes
How the Ciena Partner Network helped a provider pivot during a pandemic and outperform other methods
Find out the 4 key elements that need to come together for successful broadband expansion.
How can a rural operator get an estimate of middle-mile bandwidth requirements for their situation? Things just got easier. With Ciena’s Middle-Mile Capacity Forecast calculator, you can finally remove the guesswork and ensure your middle-mile network can deliver the broadband demands of tomorrow. Checkout the calculator, and receive a full report based on your inputs.
With once-in-a-generation public and private investments, the time is now for CEFs to rethink how to design a next-generation broadband network for their customers. With an open, modular, and scalable design, Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution enables CEFs to help their customers build a sustainable best-of-breed network, integrate multiple vendors and technologies, develop operational expertise, and focus on long-term sustainability.
At the Fiber Connect 2022, Ciena won the Game Changer Award for our Proof-of-Concept (POC) with Plume, and Benu demonstrating how cities can implement a next-generation network.
Ciena’s approach to residential broadband is designed to deliver the scalability, flexibility etc. required by new and established network operators to thrive.
Learn how Ciena’s broadband approach enables service providers and network operators to capture new opportunities with a middle-mile infrastructure.
At Ciena, our services team has designed a portfolio of services to build, operate, improve, and transform networks that is customized to fit the needs of any service provider.
Hear from the team behind Dryden Fiber, a municipal fiber network being deployed in the town of Dryden in Tompkins County, New York. We discuss the digital divide in Dryden, how the decision to create a municipal broadband network came about, the timeline for this project and much more.
In this panel discussion, you’ll hear from a utility in Alabama (Cullman Electric) that launched scalable broadband to its rural community and more.
Ciena presents the collaboration of a consultant and a local municipality to deliver a complete and future-built network with Ciena’s Universal Aggregation.
Ciena’s middle mile aggregation solution addressed Cullman Electric’s challenges to deliver scalable rural broadband internet services for its community.
Dryden and HUNT chose Ciena’s Universal Aggregation (UA) solution, including the 5164 Router, pluggable XGS-PON uOLT, 3801 XGS-PON ONU and Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller.
Alcorn County Electric Power Association was the first rural co-operative in the USA to bring electricity to its members. Over 80 years later it's leading the way again, with a plan for a world class 2Gb/s broadband service for its rural Mississippi community.
Ciena’s Mitch Simcoe explains all the factors that you need to consider when designing your middle-mile network for rural broadband.
This collaborative project between Ciena and ACG Research explores the pressures facing networks as capacity requirements grow at unprecedented rates.
A scalable, robust middle-mile infrastructure will be crucial to expanding broadband in rural areas. But how much bandwidth is needed to support more broadband access?
With Ciena’s Middle-Mile Capacity Forecast calculator, you can finally remove the guesswork and ensure your middle-mile network can deliver the broadband demands of tomorrow.
Broadband service deployment has historically been limited in rural communities, creating challenges for residents, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In today’s technology driven world, how people live, work, and play is becoming increasingly dependent on reliable and fast access to information and services enabled by a high-speed broadband network.
Utilities need a modern, sustainable network that can deliver both residential broadband and smart grid services to the communities they serve. Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution helps bridge the digital divide by supporting latency-sensitive smart grid traffic and broadband traffic by leveraging an open, modular, and scalable approach.
On this Ciena podcast hear Mark Freeman of Cullman Electric Cooperative discuss the exciting impact of deploying broadband in their community.
How Ciena is helping Openreach revolutionize connectivity services for UK carriers
Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution is flexible and sustainable—open, modular, and scalable by design—providing Communications Service Providers with a competitive edge while protecting their network investment and bridging the digital divide.
When it came to satisfying increasing demand for high-speed broadband, Cherry Capital knew that fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) was the answer.
Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution—which is flexible, cost-effective, and sustainable—enables Internet Service Providers and regional and rural providers to close the digital divide and transform communities by building a better next-generation broadband infrastructure that is open, modular, and scalable.
Ciena has helped build a carrier-grade, responsive, middle-mile network that underpins connectivity for remote communities across ten counties in northwest Colorado.
Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution—open, modular, and scalable by design—leverages innovative broadband architecture and proven expertise in deploying ultra-high-capacity networks to enable municipalities to deliver cost-effective sustainable residential broadband and ensure digital equity for all.
Learn how building a new network can simplify management and scale broadband access across communities.
With a spate of federal funding available, states and localities are considering new fiber network builds to address urgent challenges within their jurisdictions. One of the top priorities is closing the digital divide so all residents, businesses, healthcare providers, schools, agencies, and others have equitable, affordable access to broadband.
Network optimization is an essential tactic for ensuring organizations have the on-demand connectivity and performance that modern applications require.
Ciena and Government Technology discuss the State of Maryland’s path to innovation and how governments throughout the country can reap the same benefits.
Networking technology offers an opportunity to provide better service with lower taxpayer cost. A modern, converged network utilizes advanced optical and...
Ciena offers governments a means to evolve their networks to improve operating efficiency and public benefit.
The Brazos Valley Council of Governments has deployed a new private network with Ciena and CenturyLink that is now live and providing services.