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Is Your R&E Network Ready for the Great Surge?
R&E networks are experiencing a surge in capacity demand as a result of massive growth of streaming media, growing utilization of ...
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Enabling a Bigger and Smarter Network with Ciena' ...
Ciena has developed WaveLogic 3, a technology foundation for the industry’s first intelligent transceiver. WaveLogic 3 makes it p ...
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The Need for Speed in Healthcare Networks
Driven by significant growth in application data that needs to be networked among stakeholders in today’s healthcare ecosystem, h ...
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Ciena's ‘Back to School’ Optical Series is in Ses ...
This series delves into advanced technologies powering new levels of scale, efficiencies, and programmability into optical networ ...
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4 New OTN Use Cases for Today’s Networks
Optical networking dynamics are changing. Read the 4 new OTN use cases for today’s networks.
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Q&A with Ron Kline: Predicting the Pace of Ch ...
Ciena's Ron Kline shares his perspective on the many factors that affect the pace of change in our industry and how companies mus ...
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Modern Utilities Need Modern Networks
Today’s grid operations run on unsustainable 25-year-old SONET/SDH network technology. Download this infographic to learn how you ...
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12 Questions Answered about Submarine Data Center ...
As the recent news that Microsoft and Facebook plan to build a subsea cable across Atlantic demonstrates, the need to optimize in ...
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Protecting $10 Trillion Worth of Transactions, Ev ...
Back in 2010, under the auspices of the IEEE, the Reliability of Global Undersea Cable Communications Infrastructure (ROGUCCI) re ...
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Ciena Powers Zayo’s Managed Encryption Service
Zayo Group announced that it is using Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption solution to deliver the enhanced network security increasingly ...
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The Story Behind the First Reliable Trans-Atlanti ...
Learn the history of the first reliable subsea cable across the Atlantic in 1866 and how fast transmission speed has improved ove ...
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Multi-Terabit Submarine Cables… Too Big to Fail?
Report in 2010 found that nearly 100 percent of the world’s intercontinental electronic communications traffic is carried by the ...
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A (Miserable) Day in the Life of a Submarine Fiel ...
Meet Erik. Erik is a submarine network field technician. Erik has a tough job. Let's look at all the challenges he faces in tryin ...
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Traveling Farther Just Got Smarter with 300G 8QAM ...
Ciena, CANARIE and StarLight collaborate on a 300G trail over a live research network using 8QAM modulation.
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Ciena's Keri Gilder on Trends, Traction, DevOps a ...
Did you know that over 40% of the Saudi Arabian population is under the age of 18? Did you also know that they consume an average ...
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Opening Up Networks To Choice, At Last
In a world that was previously incapable of being software-driven, fully-integrated solutions once upon a time made sense.
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The DevOps Revolution: The “Jig is Up” for Legacy ...
Ciena Blue Planet introduces its new DevOps Toolkit. The Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit provides a platform to create, modify, test a ...
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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: ...
The increasing demand for capacity is driving the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure for R&E
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Papers from SubOptic 2016 - Emerging Subsea Netwo ...
At SubOptic 2016, which was held in beautiful Dubai a few weeks ago, hundreds of enthusiastic attendees discussed (and debated) t ...
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When Moore Is Not Enough – Why Our Growing Networ ...
The demand for communications bandwidth is expanding faster and faster each year, and we’re entering a stage where just Moore’s L ...
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Connecting Data Centers Under the Sea
New submarine cables, especially those owned and operated by ICPs, should land in non-traditional locations that are closer to th ...
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The Advent of Open Submarine Networks
Even as many of today's networks are moving to open architectures, submarine cable networks have remained closed and proprietary. ...
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The Evolution and Revolution of Networking Servic ...
This is the second in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.
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Automate or Die: What Telecom Must Learn from the ...
This is the first in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.