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What Is Central Office Re-architected as a Data C ...
Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) is an open-source, flexible, and cost-effective platform that combines NFV, ...
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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 6 Announcements of 20 ...
As 2016 comes to a close, we take a look back at the biggest news from a big year here at Ciena.
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SDN: a not-so-secret ingredient for transforming ...
Software-defined networking or SDN is the key to opening up ICT change programmes.
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What is service orchestration?
Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) is a set framework or architecture describing the lifecycle of an end-to-end connectivity s ...
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Our Gift to You: Ciena's Ultimate eBook Holiday B ...
Just in time for the holidays, we've made our three most popular technology eBooks available for download, and added two new refe ...
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Why Model-Driven Templating Matters with SDN and ...
In the move to SDN and NFV architectures, model-driven templating plays a pivotal role in helping develop and deliver new service ...
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Best Practice Advice for Deploying SDN and NFV
Here is some advice for network operators looking to migrate to SDN and NFV.
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3 Key Research Trends Poised to Change Our Lives
Ciena's Renee Reinke highlights three key trends in research enabled by supercomputing and the networks that connect them that wi ...
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South Africa’s DFA Automates and Virtualises Serv ...
Dark Fibre Africa, South Africa's leading provider of open-access fibre infrastructure, is deploying Ciena’s® Blue Planet orchest ...
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Cable in 2020: Agile and Closer to the User
Cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs) are content-driven businesses currently seeing new and broad opportunities for expansion.
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No Time for Rest: Windstream’s Kelly Crosby detai ...
A fascinating Q/A with Windstream Senior Product Manager Kelly Crosby on their expanded Wave service, changing approaches to virt ...
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Ciena to Show Advanced Research and Development I ...
Industry-leading Blue Planet software, DCI, and optical networking technology accelerate work in scientific research across the g ...
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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 ...
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Ciena Unveils Open Distributed NFV Solution at ME ...
Delivers virtualization at the network edge to enable faster time-to-market of new enterprise applications and services
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CenturyLink, RAD, Ciena, and Ciena’s Blue Planet ...
Showcases the Use of Open APIs and Virtualized Services Across an Orchestrated, Multi-Vendor Network
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What Is Virtual Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE ...
vCPE transforms previously hardware-based operations into software-based virtual functions.
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Distributed NFV (D-NFVI) Software product data sh ...
Ciena D-NFVI Software comprises a complete, modular solution for distributed VNF deployment.
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SD-WAN: Threat or Opportunity?
Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet team says SD-WAN in its purest form can be considered a threat to a service provider's traditio ...
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Windstream Automates Provisioning of Wavelength S ...
Open network orchestration platform accelerates 1 GbE, 10 GbE, and 100 GbE service delivery
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What is web-scale networking?
Web-scale networking enables providers and enterprises to seamlessly keep up with fast-paced developments like video streaming, c ...
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5 key characteristics of a successful DevOps depl ...
DevOps enables better collaboration and thus improving operational efficiency, speeding innovation, and accelerating
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Ciena’s Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit in the Spotlig ...
Ciena highlights how its Blue Planet software simplifies end-to-end service creation, automation and orchestration to enable soft ...
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Fewer Pizza Boxes: How Virtualization Creates Opp ...
This paper describes how freeing software from hardware is a great business opportunity for service providers.
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Interconnecting Data Centers to Support the New W ...
Read this paper and learn how digital health is placing new demands on data center connectivity and how a few steps can help impr ...