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Breaking barriers: The path to access modernization from 25GS- PON to Coherent PON
The expected commercial introduction of next-gen PON rates in 2025 is poised to disrupt the broadband connectivity market. Ciena’s Jody Guthrie explains why 25GS-PON will have the early advantage in the move to higher speeds, and the critical importance of choosing a vertically integrated and multi-service optimized supplier.
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Simplified management of multi-vendor, converged IP/optical networks – it can be done
Service providers want to simplify their network operations in order to drive efficiencies, but their strategies for managing coherent pluggables vary. Ciena’s Marie Fiala describes the cutting-edge proof-of-concept conducted by Ciena and BT Group Research that validated multi-vendor interoperability for simplified management of coherent pluggables.
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Episode 81: Celebrating the Role of an Engineer in Today’s AI World
Ever considered engineering as a career? Join Head of Engineering at Ciena India, Vineet Vohra in a conversation with his fellow engineers, Manish Chopra and Ruby Saxena for some inspiration, as they discuss how diversity, remote work and AI are impacting today's engineers.
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Coherent Routing WaveRouter OSRP Navigator Walk Through
Let Anand Raj take you through Ciena’s Ottawa lab to see an actual WaveRouter and how Navigator NCS takes you beyond IP and Optical with Ciena’s Coherent Routing. Best viewed with VR headset.
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Open, Automated, and Programmable Transport Networks: 2024 Heavy Reading Survey
Over the past decade, the communications industry has seen a steady ramp of automation in communications service provider (CSP) networks. The transport network has historically been operated and managed statically and defined by manual processes and proprietary protocols. With its greater complexities—particularly in the optical layers—transport was not the earliest adopter of network automation. However, CSPs understand that transport is an essential component of the end-to-end network and a critical component of automation.
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Coherent comes to the data center: Meet Ciena’s 1.6 Tb/s Coherent-Lite pluggable
Ciena's Helen Xenos explains the drivers and use cases of Ciena's 1.6T Coherent-Lite ...
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Simplified management of multi-vendor, converged IP/optical networks – it can be done
Service providers want to simplify their network operations in order to drive efficie...
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