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6 Ciena Experts Predict What’s Next for 2018

Some of Ciena's most distinguished experts and execs give us their takes on this year’s hot trends.

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What is L-band?

L-band, or long band, is a wavelength band immediately adjacent to the Conventional band (C-band) initially used to expand the ca ...

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Virtualize Your Submarine Cable

Ongoing growth in subsea bandwidth demand has the industry looking for new technologies that can further expand submarine cable c ...

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Ciena GeoMesh Extreme Solution Helps Submarine Ca ...

Ciena is introducing new capabilities that allow submarine cable operators to better address surging bandwidth demand driven by v ...

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Q&A with EXFO: Understanding Submarine OSNR

In advance of PTC’18, Ciena’s Brian Lavallée sat down with Jean-Sébastien Tassé of EXFO to discuss the importance and intricacies ...

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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 8 Announcements of 20 ...

As we close out another year, we look back at Ciena's biggest news and announcements of 2017.

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Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 4: Why Cyber Secu ...

In this National Cyber Security Awareness Month edition of Network Insights, we'll look at the rise of cyberattacks, government l ...

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The Internet Under the Sea

Ciena developed a unique and revolutionary new submarine network architecture called GeoMesh; changing how cable operators run th ...

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Meet the People who brought 400G to Optical

How do you deliver innovation that brings tremendous value to customers 1 year earlier? You use a team that has done it before wi ...

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Back to the Future(com)

The tech and telecom industry descends on São Paulo, Brazil, this week for Futurecom 2017. Ciena's Brian Lavallée details the lat ...

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Shannon’s Limit, or Opportunity?

There’s a looming limit to how many bits can be crammed into an optical fiber, known as the Shannon Limit. Ciena's Brian Lavallée ...

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Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 3: Submarine Netw ...

On the podcast today, Brian Lavallee is here to talk about the role of submarine, and the work Ciena is doing with coherent techn ...

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Ciena to Showcase Innovations that Boost Capacity ...

Attendees at Submarine Network World 2017 will be able to hear Ciena insights into the latest trends, challenges and opportunitie ...

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What are advanced analytics in optical networking?

Advanced analytics take advantage of new in-service monitoring capabilities, programmable settings, and integrated instrumentatio ...

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Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 2 - Episode 2: Ba ...

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda about digital education in general – how schools can provide it, the tech investments they need to make ...

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Why Submarine Networking?

Submarine networks have undergone a monumental transformation in the last several years, and the lines between terrestrial and su ...

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Why Geomesh

GeoMesh Extreme is an open network architecture that integrates the best in hardware, software, and professional services to enab ...

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What is GeoMesh Extreme?

GeoMesh Extreme optimizes and protects your submarine network. Discover how it creates a global mesh so you can securely, sustain ...

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How GeoMesh Extreme Works

GeoMesh Extreme is an end-to-end network architecture, overland and undersea, that unites hardware, software, and professional se ...

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How Submarine Networking Works

Ciena’s unique submarine network architecture, GeoMesh Extreme, sets the stage for the massive change to submarine networks.

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Alaska Communications and Ciena Boost Network Pot ...

Alaska Communications has upgraded its terrestrial and AKORN submarine networks with Ciena to improve internet access and provide ...

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DOCOMO PACIFIC announces ATISA Submarine Cable Sy ...

DOCOMO PACIFIC, Inc. announced today that construction and end-to-end testing of the 183-mile ATISA submarine fiber optic cable s ...

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GeoMesh Extreme:

Ciena’s Brian Lavallée delves into the depths of submarine networks and their importance to global communications, and how Ciena’ ...

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Northern Europe Goes Dark, and It’s a Good Thing

Eastern Light is a Swedish-based company that aims to change how bandwidth is carried around Northern Europe, a hotbed of data ce ...

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