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Navigator NCS; Optical Networking

Building an Adaptive and Resilient Network for Spark New Zealand

Renee Mateparae, Network and Operations Director at Spark New Zealand, discusses New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services provider's focus on resilience and growth, and how Ciena is supporting this mission.

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Passive Optical Network (PON); Regional Service Providers; Residential Broadband; Routing and Switching

Micrologic Rolls Out Network in West Virginia Using Ciena Optical and PON Broadband Solutions

Micrologic, a privately owned and operated internet service provider (ISP) in West Virginia, is deploying a new fiber broadband network in Randolph County using Ciena’s broadband solution.

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Ciena Services; Middle Mile; Navigator NCS; Optical Networking; Regional Service Providers; Residential Broadband; Utilities

Alabama Fiber Network Chooses Ciena for the Middle Mile

Alabama Fiber Network, a coalition of eight rural electric cooperatives, is installing a middle-mile network utilizing Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) 400G Coherent Pluggable Transceivers and 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS).

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Passive Optical Network (PON); Regional Service Providers; Residential Broadband; Routing and Switching

Seimitsu Extends Fiber Broadband Service to Georgia’s Coastal Communities Using Ciena’s XGS-PON

Savannah-based service provider Seimitsu is rolling out residential broadband in the neighborhoods of Isle of Hope, Dutch Island, and Sandfly utilizing Ciena’s XGS-PON solution.

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Ciena Services; Middle Mile; Navigator NCS; Optical Networking; Regional Service Providers

Bluegrass Network Turns Up 800Gb/s Network in Kentucky Powered by Ciena

Bluegrass Network, a telecommunications company serving central Kentucky, is utilizing a coherent optical solution from Ciena to deploy a new 800Gb/s network.

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Data Center Interconnect (DCI); Navigator NCS; Optical Networking; Regional Service Providers

Summit Broadband Launches 400Gb/s Waves Service for Florida Businesses with Ciena

Summit Broadband, a leading fiber-optics telecommunications provider, is leveraging Ciena’s industry-leading WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) to offer 400Gb/s wavelength services to enterprise customers in Central and Southwest Florida.

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Passive Optical Network (PON); Regional Service Providers; Residential Broadband; Routing and Switching

Moby Supercharges Residential Broadband in Calgary With Ciena’s XGS-PON

Moby, an independent telecom provider and division of Western Fibre Communications Corp., is utilizing a broadband solution from Ciena to provide residential connectivity services to subscribers in Calgary, the largest city in Alberta, Canada.

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Navigator NCS; Optical Networking; Regional Service Providers

OPTK Networks: Pioneering connectivity and network evolution across the Midwest

OPTK Networks facilitates dark fiber, wavelength, carrier Ethernet, and high-speed internet access across Colorado, Nebraska, and Iowa.

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Blue Planet

DISH Expands First-of-its-Kind Cloud-Native 5G Network with Blue Planet’s Automation Platform

DISH Network Corporation selected Ciena’s Blue Planet automation software to accelerate 5G services on the United States’ first cloud-native, OpenRAN-based 5G network. This partnership is a testament to Blue Planet’s software innovation and...

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Middle Mile; Navigator NCS; Regional Service Providers; Routing and Switching; Universal Aggregation; Utilities

Mecklenburg Electric brings middle mile for broadband to rural Virginia and North Carolina with Ciena

MEC is utilizing Ciena’s Universal Aggregation solution to build a scalable, converged 100G–400G middle-mile backbone for power delivery and broadband middle-mile aggregation

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Next Gen Metro and Edge

REANNZ Offers Reliable Connectivity for Data-Intensive Scientific Research and Education via One NZ network

REANNZ in New Zealand are leveraging One NZ’s network, which is using Ciena technology.

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Ciena Customer Insights video featuring CityFibre

David Tomalin, CityFibre Group CTO, discusses how the network provider’s sustainable network underpins the UK’s economy and supports digital inclusion.

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Ciena Customer Insights video featuring TELUS

TELUS’ Shazia Sobani, VP Network Implementation, shares her thoughts on Ciena, AI, and how TELUS is making its network greener.

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Ciena Customer Insights video featuring Zayo

Aaron Werley, Technology VP, Lit Networks at Zayo Group, discusses how their network enhancements are driving better experiences and Zayo’s sustainability efforts.

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Liquid Spectrum; Middle Mile; Navigator NCS; Optical Networking; Regional Service Providers

Diamond State Networks boosts middle mile connectivity with Ciena’s coherent optics

Diamond State Networks, an Arkansas-based wholesale broadband provider, is leveraging Ciena’s coherent optical solution to deploy the fastest and highest-capacity middle-mile network in the state.

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Ciena Services

Lightstorm Gets SmartNet Right the First Time with Ciena Services

Lightstorm Telecom Ventures introduces the SmartNet Network, 12,000km of fibre across five major cities in India.

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Passive Optical Network (PON); Routing and Switching; Universal Aggregation

Netalis supports increasing bandwidth demands with Ciena’s XGS-PON

Netalis, an operator in Besançon, France, continually strives to support the digital communication needs of its customers in the east and southeast of France.

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Navigator NCS; Optical Networking

Spark Adds Real-Time Analytics with Ciena Innovations

Spark, New Zealand’s largest digital services provider, enlisted the help of Ciena to implement its second-generation Optical Transport Network (OTN 2.0).

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Adaptive IP; Ciena Services; Navigator NCS; Next Gen Metro and Edge; Passive Optical Network (PON); Residential Broadband; Routing and Switching; State and Local Government; Universal Aggregation

Clackamas County to launch new municipal residential broadband network with Ciena

Clackamas County is situated in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. It’s Oregon’s third-most populous county, with a heavily timbered terrain that spans 1,879 square miles.

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What's NEXT for Southern Cross?

Southern Cross Cable Network's President and CEO Laurie Miller talks with Ciena's CTO Steve Alexander to discuss how Southern Cross is providing capacity today.

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Ciena Services; Optical Networking

LOGIX Fiber Networks rolls out 100G wavelength service with Ciena

LOGIX Fiber Networks (“LOGIX”) Ciena’s optical technology to offer 10G and 100G wavelength services

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5G; Data Center Interconnect (DCI)

Helping Kiwis work, play and connect – Vodafone New Zealand and Ciena

Vodafone New Zealand’s Tony Baird shares the service provider’s vision to build out New Zealand’s best mobile network

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Adaptive IP Apps; Ciena Services; Coherent Routing; Navigator NCS; Optical Networking; Regional Service Providers

MLGC powers digital experiences in rural North Dakota with Ciena’s Coherent Routing

MLGC is deploying Ciena’s 5164 Router, 8110 Coherent Aggregation Router, 8114 Coherent Aggregation Router and WaveLogic 5 Nano coherent pluggable optics.

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Adaptive IP Apps; Ciena Services; Coherent Routing; Navigator NCS; Optical Networking; Regional Service Providers

Peninsula Fiber Network chooses Ciena Coherent Routing for new regional network

Peninsula Fiber Network (PFN) is deploying a Coherent Routing solution from Ciena to modernize its network.

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800G; Optical Networking; Routing and Switching; Submarine Networking (GeoMesh Extreme)

Alaska Communications Teams Up with Ciena to Enhance Network

Alaska Communications worked with software company Ciena to bring the reliability and high-speed connectivity services its customers need.

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800G; Optical Networking; Submarine Networking (GeoMesh Extreme)

Setting records in 800G - Altibox Carrier and Ciena

Watch how Altibox broke new optical transmission records using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme technology.

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Network Functions Virtualization (NFV); Routing and Switching; Virtualized Edge

Bestel Reduces Digital Gap in Mexico with Ciena Technology

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Network Functions Virtualization (NFV); Routing and Switching; Virtualized Edge

Humanitas: Tech for good

Humanitas is utilizing a Virtualized Edge Solution from Ciena where sensors and devices within the hospital are interconnected using Ciena’s 3926 Platform.

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Navigator NCS; Passive Optical Network (PON); Residential Broadband; Routing and Switching; State and Local Government; Universal Aggregation

Town of Dryden to become one of New York’s first municipal broadband providers

Dryden and HUNT chose Ciena’s universal aggregation (UA) solution, including the 5164 Router, pluggable XGS-PON uOLT, 3801 XGS-PON ONU and Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller.

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Routing and Switching

Summit Broadband Expands Network Across Florida with Ciena’s Adaptive IP

Summit Broadband has deployed Ciena’s Adaptive IP™ approach to boost capacity and expand its network to now serve major cities across Florida.

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Ciena Services; Navigator NCS; Optical Networking

Acronym modernizes network with coherent optical solution from Ciena

Acronym Solutions Inc. (Acronym) is an information and communications technology (ICT) company.

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Optical Networking

Tely turns to Ciena for capacity boost

Tely offers services including internet, LAN, colocation, cloud computing, spectrum sharing, fiber swap, and more.

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Optical Networking

ALT lowers cost-per-bit transported with Ciena

Acessoline Telecom provides services like data center interconnect metro, and long haul to the corporate, residential, government, and wholesale markets.

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800G; Liquid Spectrum; Navigator NCS; Optical Networking; Submarine Networking (GeoMesh Extreme)

Crosslake Fibre turns up ‘CrossChannel Fibre’ subsea route with Ciena

Crosslake Fibre turns up ‘CrossChannel Fibre’ subsea route with Ciena

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Middle Mile; Routing and Switching; Utilities

Cullman Electric powers Gigabit Broadband speeds to rural Alabama with Ciena

Cullman Electric powers Gigabit Broadband speeds to rural Alabama with Ciena

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Data Center Interconnect (DCI); Optical Networking

How Digital Realty is growing its data centre operations with scalable, agile DCI networks

How Digital Realty is growing its data centre operations with scalable, agile DCI networks

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Ciena Services; Optical Networking; Routing and Switching

How Ciena is helping Openreach revolutionize connectivity services for UK carriers

How Ciena is helping Openreach revolutionize connectivity services for UK carriers

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Data Center Interconnect (DCI); Navigator NCS; Optical Networking

Iron Mountain Data Centers ride the ‘Wave’ with Ciena

Iron Mountain Data Centers launched Metro Wave, creating an ecosystem in which customers can thrive.

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Next Gen Metro and Edge; Routing and Switching

Piauí Conectado: Advancing digitalization in Brazil

Piauí Conectado: Advancing digitalization in Brazil

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800G; Optical Networking

Iliad brings first 800G to France and Italy

Iliad brings first 800G to France and Italy, all while enabling a greener and smarter network with Ciena

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Data Center Interconnect (DCI); Optical Networking

More capacity, more opportunities: Hong Kong’s i-DATA closes the connectivity gap with Ciena

More capacity, more opportunities: Hong Kong’s i-DATA closes the connectivity gap with Ciena

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Blue Planet; Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

Telefónica Deutschland’s evolution to an open, software-defined network with Blue Planet Software

Telefónica Deutschland’s evolution to an open, software-defined network with Blue Planet Software

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800G; Optical Networking; Submarine Networking (GeoMesh Extreme)

Southern Cross Sets the Pace with Ciena

Southern Cross Sets the Pace with Ciena

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