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TOSCA and YANG? It’s not either/or...it’s both

Ciena's new Blue Planet architecture leverages a number of information models and orchestration tools – including TOSCA and NetCo ...

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Ciena Blue Planet unveils the dawn of service orc ...

Today Ciena’s Blue Planet division unveiled an entirely new architecture. Joe Cumello goes through each of them in this blog post.

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Ciena Delivers Self-Service Programmability and R ...

Ciena® (NYSE: CIEN) unveiled key enhancements to its Blue Planet network orchestration software designed to help operators expand ...

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The Reality of Applying SDN WAN in R&E Networ ...

Many R&E networks are at the forefront of SDN deployments, but now risk replacing hardware silos with software silos via a multi- ...

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Ciena to Showcase Blue Planet Software at SDN &am ...

Experts discuss how service providers can improve agility for efficient, flexible networks with Blue Planet Software at SDN Open ...

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The SDN Resource Adapter: More than Meets the Eye

While NFV has largely owned the network virtualization industry spotlight of late, there is a rising tide of interest around conf ...

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5 questions to evaluate OTN switching for your ne ...

Paul Littlewood, principal engineer in Ciena's CTO office and co-author of the

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Service Orchestration: The Cure for Vendor Silos ...

In order to fully orchestrate services from end-to-end, across both the physical and virtual domains, network operators will now ...

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Ciena Completes Acquisition of Cyan

New Blue Planet business division to lead Company’s software activities to deliver greater efficiency, automation and agility of ...

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Q&A with Ciena CEO Gary Smith on Cyan Acquisi ...

Ciena today completed its acquisition of Cyan, a leading provider of next-gen software and platforms to enable SDN networks.

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Defining the 3 Factions of SDN

This post defines the three factions of Software Defined Networking.

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Ciena unveils a carrier-grade CPE for NFV

Since Ciena announced our NFV solution, Agility Matrix, in December, we have been quite busy working a variety of enhancements to ...

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Bringing DevOps to Service Provider Networks and ...

This paper discusses using a model-driven and DevOps-style operational approach, which minimizes the need to develop custom code ...

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Equinix and Ciena Enable On-Demand Virtual Networ ...

Industry-leading data center provider deploys Ciena networking platforms to enable virtual cross connect; boost speed and perform ...

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Hibernia Networks Upgrades Trans-Atlantic Subsea ...

Hibernia Networks recently selected Ciena to provide advanced optical solutions on the Hibernia Networks platform.

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Ciena Expands Packet Networking Portfolio to Acce ...

Ciena announced new packet networking solutions designed to help network operators accelerate the adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet ...

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Ciena 6500: Extreme Packet Makeover Edition

It’s time to rethink everything you know about Ciena’s 6500 Packet Optical Platform. You’ve known the 6500 as our flagship platfo ...

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What is an Optical Control Plane?

To help clarify the question of “what is an optical control plane?”, we put together the below infographic that walks through the ...

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The Arrival of Open Utility Networks

The utility industry is undergoing a comprehensive transformation as it modernizes to a more efficient and smarter grid. Because ...

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5 outcomes our Ciena Optimization Service brings ...

Need more comprehensive visibility into your network infrastructure? Tim Wilson details how Ciena Optimization Service can help b ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Guide to improving ...

Over the past several years, coherent technology advancements have enabled providers to meet increasing capacity demands while co ...

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