Weekly roundup | Ciena network Insights | May 5, 2023

Today, connectivity and cloud onramps are typically offered in fixed bandwidths, and the workloads get bound by the provisioned bandwidth. Ciena's Allen Hasham details a new model that takes advantage of IP/optical convergence and bandwidth elasticity to enable service providers to capitalize on available idle capacity and generate new value-added services.

Heavy Reading recently published its 5G Network Strategies Operator Survey results. Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna digs into the numbers and what they mean for the future evolution of 5G transport networks.

Ciena’s O-NID family of platforms delivers OTN closer to the edge, in a compact hardened form factor, all with operational simplicity and the flexibility to address multiple applications — at a fraction of the cost, space, and power compared to traditional OTN customer premises solutions.