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3803-PSE

The 3803-PSE is a versatile XGS-PON ONU that can deliver data, voice, and PoE services. The carrier-class 3803-PSE ONU is an idea ...

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3804

The 3804 is a Wi-Fi 6 capable multi-port XGS-PON optical network unit (ONU) with analog telephone adapter (ATA) support. This fas ...

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5184

The 5184 is a compact, secure aggregation router with integrated line-rate media access control security (MACsec) support and is ...

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Pave your path to better broadband with Ciena’s N ...

In legacy broadband deployments, network operators had different network management systems for different network layers, putting ...

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Beyond broadband: Monetizing your fiber investmen ...

With new demand and investments, broadband service providers must ensure they get the most out of network investments. Ciena’s Fr ...

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Ping is King: Why latency matters as much as netw ...

Ivan Polizzi, Ciena’s Regional Managing Director of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific, details why network latency is as critic ...

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Year in Review: Ciena’s 10 biggest announcements ...

As we wrap up 2023, we are looking back at some of Ciena’s most significant news and announcements from the year.

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It’s time to totally rethink cloud connectivity

Ciena thinks that cloud connect networks should be as elastic, flexible, scalable, and cost-effective as the cloud itself. But th ...

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Ciena’s Residential Broadband Network Architecture

Our Residential Broadband solution incorporates: Ciena’s purpose-built router portfolio with XGS-PON pluggable technology, WaveLo ...

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Ciena's vBNG deep dive: Unleashing broadband serv ...

In this technical deep dive, Ciena’s Chuck Harris explains how the architectural constructs of Ciena’s virtual Broadband Network ...

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Mean-time-to-cloud: Enabling a metaverse-ready ne ...

An immersive, interactive metaverse will require a robust network supporting massive amounts of bandwidth at extremely low latenc ...

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Making the metaverse feel real: the key character ...

The metaverse is a network of immersive, persistent, and interconnected digital worlds. Ciena’s David Krauss takes a closer look ...

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Ciena's disruptive broadband access architecture

A disruptive broadband access market demands an entirely different solution – a disruptive network architecture. Ciena's Joe Mars ...

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Virtual Broadband Network Gateway

Ciena’s virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG) is transforming the network edge with its ability to deliver network functions i ...

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Infobrief

Broadband network design checklist

Broadband networks are rapidly expanding to meet surging customer demand.

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Residential Broadband Network Design Checklist

Residential networks are rapidly expanding to meet surging customer demand.

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Article

What is Web3 and how does it relate to the metave ...

Web3 is coming, and it embodies a set of technologies that will change the way we interact with our digital universe. Ciena’s Dav ...

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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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Article

Want to take your IP network to new heights? Look ...

It is no longer a question of if people want a new way to build their IP networks, but how. Ciena’s Joe Marsella explains how the ...

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Igniting residential broadband for all takes more ...

With the challenge of universal broadband access now pushed to the forefront, Ciena CTO Steve Alexander outlines the size and sca ...

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Infobrief

Broadband Infobrief | Ciena

To help you successfully make broadband access a market reality, Ciena takes a deliberately different, integrated approach. Our u ...

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Video

Get Smarter and More Connected with an Open and S ...

At the Fiber Connect 2022, Ciena won the Game Changer Award for our Proof-of-Concept (POC) with Plume, and Benu demonstrating how ...

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Infobrief

Modernizing Federal Networks for Edge Computing

Government agencies are largely turning to edge computing, but need modernized networks to help secure, collect and analyze data ...

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Article

One PON to rule them all?

It seems like every networking article in the history of the tech world is talking about the exponential increase in bandwidth de ...

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