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MSOs Take Ethernet Business Services By Storm

This paper discusses the rise of EBS as an appealing alternative to traditional business services.

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Ethernet Services in an IP World

Ethernet as a data networking technology has been in wide use for many years, keeping pace with the network speeds demanded by ap ...

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Five Data Center Federation Factors to Help Prepa ...

A Data Center Federation (DCF) can make a pivotal difference in helping to keep content and data consumers working, playing, and ...

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Small Cell Technology, Big Business Opportunity

Small cells allow the mobile network to improve in both coverage and capacity, which facilitates web-scale architectures even fur ...

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The Impact of OTT Services on the Mobile Backhaul ...

Many mobile operators have deployed a traditional IPoDWDM architecture for mobile backhaul, which was sufficient when network tra ...

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Maximizing LTE Benefits Using Carrier Ethernet Ba ...

Backhaul providers are in a prime position to capitalize on the growing market for delivering Carrier Ethernet services to MNOs.

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GeoMesh: Integrated Test Set Capabilities

Ciena is enabling significant opportunities to increase revenues by offering market-leading 100G-based transatlantic and transpac ...

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GeoMesh: Global Submarine Networking for a Web-sc ...

GeoMesh epitomizes the convergence of submarine and terrestrial network and web-scale technologies, yielding previously impossibl ...

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A Smarter Communications Network for the Smart Gr ...

As electric utilities evolve to the smart grid, they need a comparable evolution of the underlying communications network.

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Exceeding 100 Gb/s in Research and Education Netw ...

This paper reviews the attributes of coherent systems in light of the challenges faced by system designers to realize 100 Gb/s op ...

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Defending the Smart City

With all the hype around ‘Smart’ Cities, you would think they are ubiquitous. With their many potential threats to the network ut ...

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SDN and NFV: The Brains Behind the Smart City

In major metropolitan areas and smaller cities alike, governments are considering SDN and NFV to deliver the agility and flexibil ...

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Carrier-Grade Ethernet as a Foundation of Assured ...

Ciena a network strategy and technology company - Network Solutions for Optical Transport and Switching, Carrier Ethernet, Data a ...

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Improving the Enterprise Network

This paper explores the value proposition of Carrier Ethernet, as expressed by carriers, as it applies to government and enterpri ...

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Network Strategies to Drive Lower Costs amid High ...

This paper discusses how OTN and MPLS-TP can be jointly deployed to optimize IP router infrastructures.

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LightRiver - Partnering to Deliver Mission-Critic ...

Ciena a network strategy and technology company - Network Solutions for Optical Transport and Switching, Carrier Ethernet, Data a ...

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Considerations for Building a Healthcare Sector P ...

Precise information is the lifeblood of healthcare sector enterprises, empowering providers to deliver the best possible patient ...

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Carrier Ethernet Infographic | Ciena

Carrier Ethernet essentials from yesterday, for today and the future.

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In the On-demand Economy, Change Happens Faster

Ciena’s DCI Portfolio – Giving you the unlimited bandwidth, power efficiency, density, and operational ease to keep pace with the ...

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Modern APIs: Create Data Center Interconnect (DCI ...

Ciena's Emulation Cloud™ helps modernize your Data Center Interconnect with APIs to create, test and fine-tune custom application ...

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Data Center Interconnect:

The web-scale world demands massive, high-quality, on-demand access to content from all devices. Get Ciena’s Waveserver® Purpose- ...

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Zero-Touch Ethernet Service Configuration and Pro ...

Ciena's packet networking solution provides zero-touch automated service configuration and provisioning, so you can turn on servi ...

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The history of optical and Ethernet

In this infographic, you will see the history and evolution of both technologies, including major milestones for each.

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The Essentials of Mobile Backhaul

This infographic outlines MBH challenges and provides an opportunity to learn how to leverage evolving mobile backhaul solutions ...

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