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The journey to 1.6T: Why 1.6T and what’s in it fo ...
Incredible as it may sound, network providers will soon be able to evolve their optical networks to 1.6Tb/s transmission. What do ...
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Advantages of Managed Spectrum Service vs Dark Fi ...
As network capacity increases, the monthly OPEX for the managed 100G wave service to the enterprise increases rapidly—compelling ...
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Deploying coherent plugs – is there more to the s ...
Looking for a reasonable approach to getting started deploying coherent pluggables? Ciena’s Tim Pearson provides the final two st ...
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Scale your DCI with Waveserver's high-performance ...
Learn how the Waveserver platform provides scalability and choice in optics with support for 400G coherent pluggable optics and h ...
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Modernize Your Photonic Line System with Ciena's ...
Learn how RLS is improving density for C&L-band deployments, and how it helps network providers evolve from wavelength and dark f ...
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Waveserver 5: 800Gbps Quantum Secured Communicati ...
Ciena’s Waveserver 5 platform powered by proven 800 Gb/s encryption, leverages open APIs to communicate with an external QKD syst ...
Data Sheets
O NID DS | Ciena
Ciena’s O-NID extends OTN closer to the network edge, with operational simplicity and the flexibility to address multiple applica ...
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Keep it simple – debating coherent plugs versus t ...
Coherent Routing is a hot topic in the industry due to the promise of greater scalability, flexibility, and sustainability in the ...
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Infusing sustainability into networks at every to ...
Networks across the globe are enabling so much good for our society. As operators continue to invest to meet these growing demand ...
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Ciena's O-NID: Cost-Efficiently Extend OTN to the ...
Ciena’s O-NID family of platforms delivers OTN closer to the edge, in a compact hardened form factor, all with operational simpli ...
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Metro routing done differently: Unveiling Ciena’s ...
You asked for a different way to build a converged metro network, and we listened. Meet WaveRouter, a reimagined routing platform ...
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Fourth Generation 100GbE is the real deal. How we ...
Ciena’s Ivana Lemos explains how with Ciena’s new 8140 Coherent Metro Router you can meet new 100GbE requirements and satisfy you ...
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Introducing WaveLogic 6: Another industry first f ...
1.6 Terabit wavelengths. 800G everywhere. 800G pluggables delivering 1000 km reaches. Seems impossible? Don’t ever tell that to a ...
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How to elevate your defenses against growing cybe ...
Advances in quantum computing are introducing new paradigms in data security. Ciena’s Patrick Scully explains what they are and w ...
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MCP is an Intelligent Network Controller. What do ...
What is an Intelligent Network Controller? Ciena’s Tim Pearson explains the real value that lies behind this new term.
Infobrief
WaveLogic 5 Nano 100G-400G Universal CFP2-DCO
Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Nano 100G–400G Universal CFP2-DCO transceiver incorporates advanced coherent optical technology to deliver th ...
Infobrief
WaveLogic 5 Nano 100G-400G Standard CFP2-DCO
Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) 100G–400G Standard CFP2-DCO transceiver module provides standards-compliant 100–400 Gb/s coherent ...
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WaveLogic 5 Nano 100G-400G Universal QSFP-DD
The WaveLogic™ 5 Nano (WL5n) Universal QSFP-DD is a coherent pluggable transceiver that supports up to +4dBm Tx launch power.
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Battle of the bands. Get more fiber capacity usin ...
Which technology will prevail in the battle of the bands? Conventional C + L-band? New L-band options combined with an Extended 6 ...
White Paper
Increasing Fiber Capacity with L-band: A comparis ...
Networks with high bandwidth applications and sustained bandwidth growth are quickly facing capacity exhaust on routes between ke ...
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Coherent Routing: A rapid evolution to IP/Optical ...
There’s way more to IP/Optical convergence than just a plug in a router. Scott McFeely Ciena’s SVP of Global Products & Services ...
White Paper
Coherent Optics: 100G, 400G, & Beyond
This white paper provides the industry’s most in-depth look at the current state and future trajectory of coherent optical transm ...
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Greener Networks Made Possible by Coherent Innova ...
Ciena’s coherent optical technology innovations have resulted in network providers getting five times more capacity over fiber.
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With big edge densification comes big metro respo ...
Ciena’s 8100 family is expanding in a big way by adding the 8190 for higher capacity aggregation. Ivana Lemos explains how you ca ...