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Chart a clear course to an optimized multi-layer ...

Service and content providers must keep up with the unrelenting pace of network growth, while also controlling costs and improvin ...

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Navigator Network Control Suite (NCS)

With Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite™, providers gain a single point of control to visualize the performance of their mul ...

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Intelligent Data - Driven Operations with AIOps

In this white paper, Heavy Reading focuses on artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) and the emerging role of AI in mu ...

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Pluggable coherent optics – What is the best mana ...

Ciena’s Tim Pearson explains why multi-layer controllers are best suited to help you plan, operate, and optimize optical performa ...

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Deliver reliable, high-quality broadband without ...

In legacy broadband implementations, network operators had different network management systems for different network layers, put ...

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Deploying coherent plugs – is there more to the s ...

Looking for a reasonable approach to getting started deploying coherent pluggables? Ciena’s Tim Pearson provides the final two st ...

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Interoperability and innovation go hand-in-hand: ...

We’re pleased to announce that Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller has been awarded TIP’s Bronze Badge for c ...

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Keep it simple – debating coherent plugs versus t ...

Coherent Routing is a hot topic in the industry due to the promise of greater scalability, flexibility, and sustainability in the ...

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MCP is an Intelligent Network Controller. What do ...

What is an Intelligent Network Controller? Ciena’s Tim Pearson explains the real value that lies behind this new term.

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Intelligent multi-layer operations with Navigator ...

Learn how Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite provides a single point of control to visualize and optimize multi-layer networ ...

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White Papers

Coherent Optics: 100G, 400G, & Beyond

This white paper provides the industry’s most in-depth look at the current state and future trajectory of coherent optical transm ...

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Heavy Reading: Simplifying Operations with Multi- ...

The adoption of SDN domain controllers improves network management and should be a central element in an IT-based digital transfo ...

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Analyst Insights: Multi-layer SDN with enriched a ...

IP and optical network layers are converging, providing new challenges to the operations teams tasked with managing them. To get ...

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7 invaluable ways to keep your submarine network ...

How can real-time analytics unlock new benefits to help you build and manage an ultra-resilient submarine network that exceeds yo ...

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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...

Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...

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How open standards in optical networks lead to de ...

A tongue-in-cheek saying is: ‘The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from’. Yet open standards play a ...

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Adaptive IP Apps to the rescue

Marie Fiala describes how Ciena’s Adaptive IP Apps come to the rescue by dramatically speeding up troubleshooting and resolution ...

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A new age of IP/Optical network visibility and au ...

Heightened performance demands on IP and optical networks are ushering in a new age of network management, visibility and automat ...

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Strengthen your advantage with Emulation Cloud an ...

In this final blog of the 4-part MCP Applications series, Marie Fiala describes the resources at your disposal to integrate, depl ...

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Keep ahead of demand with PlannerPlus—another win ...

Hoping for a way to build out network capacity incrementally to get the most return from capex as soon as possible? Marie Fiala e ...

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Data Sheets

PlannerPlus

Ciena’s PlannerPlus network planning and design tool makes network builds and augmentations quick and easy.

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Doubling down on domain control with real-time in ...

Would you like the ability to complete your operational tasks quicker and more accurately, across multi-layer, multi-vendor netwo ...

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The winning hand in your network operations trans ...

How is Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan offering taking network operations to a new level of intelligent software control and aut ...

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Power smarter, more agile networks with a TDM mig ...

The gradual discontinuation of SONET/SDH and PDH equipment, mounting volumes of data, and other key factors are putting a signifi ...

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