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Exploring Ciena's growing family of Optical Network Units (ONUs)
As PON adoption grows, the importance of having a range of Optical Networking Units (ONUs) is even more critical to serve the diverse set of use cases operators are facing. Ciena’s Chuck Harris explores the expanding portfolio of ONUs Ciena has to offer to address the needs of today.
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Colt’s transatlantic 1.2Tb/s transmission is a thrilling milestone for global, sustainable connectivity in the AI era
Colt has achieved 1.2Tb/s per wavelength on its Grace Hopper transatlantic cable by adopting Ciena’s WL6e coherent optics innovation. Here’s how they did it and what it means.
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Episode 82: Data4 Discusses AI’s Impact on Data Centers
Jérôme Totel, Data4 Group Strategy & Innovation Director joins Jürgen Hatheier, Int’l CTO, to discuss the critical role data centers play in AI. They cover energy needs, AI training and inference, and how Europe can strengthen its position.
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Demo of Industry's 1st 1.6 Tb/s Coherent Solution
Ciena's Heng Foo describes live demonstration of the world's first 1.6Tb/s coherent solution, WaveLogic 6 Extreme, that enables highest capacity connectivity. WL6e is generally available on both Waveserver and 6500 platforms.
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Making IPoDWDM a Reality
The commercialization of 400G coherent pluggable optics in QSFP-DD and OSFP form factors has sparked a resurgence of interest in integrated colored optics in routers, known as IP over DWDM, or IPoDWDM. To date, IPoDWDM is dominated by hyperscalers, but some leading-edge communications service providers (CSPs) have followed the hyperscalers’ lead. Longer term, the real opportunity among CSPs is with high performance coherent pluggable variants generally referred to as ZR+. The ZR+ pluggable optics provide greater reach and the ability to run over telecom operators’ reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM)-based line systems.
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Coherent comes to the data center: Meet Ciena’s 1.6 Tb/s Coherent-Lite pluggable
Ciena's Helen Xenos explains the drivers and use cases of Ciena's 1.6T Coherent-Lite ...
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Simplified management of multi-vendor, converged IP/optical networks – it can be done
Service providers want to simplify their network operations in order to drive efficie...
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Scale your DCI with Waveserver's high-performance and coherent pluggable optics
Learn how the Waveserver platform provides scalability and choice in optics with supp...
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Modernize Your Photonic Line System with Ciena's Reconfigurable Line System (RLS)
Learn how RLS is improving density for C&L-band deployments, and how it helps network...
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Advantages of Managed Spectrum Service vs Dark Fiber + DIY in the Enterprise Market
As network capacity increases, the monthly OPEX for the managed 100G wave service to...
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On Demand: Your best route to IP/Optical convergence
Hear what makes Ciena’s Coherent Networking approach successful.
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