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Why SDN Domain Controllers are the essential link ...
Moving Software-Defined Networking (SDN) from trials to production brings efficiency, agility and significant cost savings to net ...
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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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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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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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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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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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PlannerPlus
Ciena’s PlannerPlus network planning and design tool makes network builds and augmentations quick and easy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ciena’s role in recent 400G industry-first milest ...
Are you confused about the recent 400G milestones announced and how this is different than what has been discussed for a few year ...
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Ciena Services for Navigator Network Control Suite
Enterprises and consumers are demanding high quality, high bandwidth services that are always available, everywhere.
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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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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 ...