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Access and aggregation

Drive next-generation business services at the network edge

  • Universal aggregation
  • Broadband
  • CIN
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  • 4G/5G converged xHaul
  • 5G automation

Metro

Evolve your metro network to become more simple, scalable, and sustainable

  • Coherent routing
  • Metro DCI
  • Metro optical architectures
  • On-demand wave services

Long haul

Maximize capacity and operational efficiencies with our innovative, flexible long-haul solutions

  • High-capacity switching and transport
  • Global DCI
  • Submarine networking
  • Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN)

Open line systems

Gain more visibility and optimize your photonic network assets with our intelligent open line systems

  • Programmable photonics

Enterprise edge

Accelerate your edge service revenue, including high-value cloud networking and security services, with our comprehensive enterprise edge solutions

  • Secure access service edge
  • Edge routing and switching

Secure networking

Mitigate security risks and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data

  • Data security and encryption
  • Quantum secure communications

Operations and automation

Simplify network and services management with intelligent automation and software-defined control

  • Multi-layer network control
  • Intelligent automation

Network transformation

Accelerate your network transformation with our industry-leading experts, field-proven analytical tools, and tailored approach and methodology

  • Network transformation
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A path to better broadband

The direction you need is here. A solution with flexibility that helps you meet today’s demands while laying a foundation for the future.

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Blog

The path to better broadband: How to unlock the value of your access networks

Operators are facing a critical decision when it comes to deploying their broadband access networks. Ciena's Joe Marsella explains how you can get on a better path to unlocking the value of your fiber and ensuring long-term success in an evolving digital landscape.

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Video

WaveLogic 6 Extreme - Evolving to 1.6Tb/s Networking

Joe Shapiro, Vice President PLM, explains the business benefits of evolving to 1.6T technology with Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme for network providers. Learn more about the technology that delivers unrivaled high bandwidth connectivity and the performance required with next-generation 800G routing data paths and associated wholesale services.

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Podcast

Episode 75: Pushing the limits of connectivity with Vocus

On this episode of the Ciena Insights Podcast, Jarrod Nink, Chief Operating Officer at Vocus offers an insider's perspective to how the Australian network provider is capitalizing on this surging demand for bandwidth.

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Whitepaper

Intelligent Data - Driven Operations with AIOps

CSPs are looking to use AIOps to broaden the scope of network management and improve operational efficiency at each stage of the network lifecycle, by combining big data with AI/machine learning (ML).

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Weekly roundup | Ciena network Insights | July 21, 2023

July 21, 2023
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ARTICLES
    Articles
    Is your tollway authority searching for non-toll revenue sources? Look no further than your fiber assets.

    Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda discusses options for tollway authorities to generate new revenue sources by leveraging their fiber network assets.

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    Articles
    Ciena's vBNG deep dive: Unleashing broadband service flexibility and agility

    In this technical deep dive, Ciena’s Chuck Harris explains how the architectural constructs of Ciena’s virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG) deliver the flexibility and agility service providers need in today’s evolving network.

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    Articles
    Farice: Connecting the land of ice and fire to the world

    Ciena’s Brian Lavallée sits down with Farice’s Örn Orrason, VP of Business Development, to learn more about their mission to connect Iceland to the world via their network of submarine cables.

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RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT

What is coherent routing?

Coherent routing provides network operators a path to achieve IP/Optical convergence that’s designed to optimize network performance through multi-layer operations, dynamic scalability, and improved overall network sustainability.

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