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Evolve your metro network

Modernize. Simplify. Automate. Succeed.

Customers are evolving. It’s time to evolve your network to align to changing customer needs.

What does the network of the future really look like? It’s time to find out…

Introducing Ciena’s Adaptive IP

The traditional way of building IP networks is unsustainable. We understand the new IP network must be open, programmable, disaggregated, and virtualized in a way that allows resources to be reconfigured rapidly, without physical intervention.

Ciena has introduced Adaptive IP, an innovative solution that offers the essential IP capabilities required to support new applications, while allowing network operators to benefit from cloud-like scale, disaggregated functionality, and automated intelligence.

Modernization

Blog

How to support TDM services in your packet network

As operators throughout Asia-Pacific invest in infrastructure for 5G and other fast-e...

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White paper

Elegant Migration from TDM to a Modern Routing and Switching Network

IP/MPLS approaches guarantee their ability to support legacy customers and help opera...

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Application note

Breaking the Chains of Inflexible Legacy Network Technologies

This paper explains how to replace aging SDH and Ethernet networks with Ciena’s lates...

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Application note

Modern, Agile Networks for the Super-high-bandwidth Age

Rapid adoption of cloud services, video streaming, 4G and 5G wireless backhaul, and a...

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Cost-efficient scale to the edge

Blog

Rise of the machines, and the options for connecting them

Blog

Extending the 100G Edge

Introducing Ciena’s new 5171 Service Aggregation Switch and Service Aggregation Platf...

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Video

5G + Ciena

A 5G network means having a network capable of handling unprecedented demand. Think o...

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Blog

5 key wireline network improvements needed for 5G

Contrary to popular belief, 5G isn’t just about the Radio Access Network (RAN) and fa...

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White paper

Expanding Demands Need Routing and Switching Performance—from Edge to Core

This paper shows how to gain the most from metro transformation initiatives with a si...

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Intelligent Automation

Blog

How to bend the IP cost curve in your favour, using software

Video

Blue Planet Intelligent Automation

Service providers globally are looking to transform into Digital Service Providers. H...

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Blue Planet

Speeding Problem Diagnosis in the Network Operations Center

According to a survey by an analyst firm, network issues are involved in over 50 perc...

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Blue Planet

Demo: Blue Planet Layer 3 Service Assurance

Routing events can disrupt customer services and when they do, network operators need...

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Blue Planet

Making Intelligent Automation a Reality with Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning

As the explosion in demand for network bandwidth continues, service providers must br...

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Other Resources

Video

Choose your own IP network adventure

Join network engineer Jack on his day at work, and tell us how you would choose to so...

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Infographic

Ongoing Bandwidth Growth Is Placing New Demands on Asia-Pacific IP Networks

Ongoing Bandwidth Growth Is Placing New Demands on Asia-Pacific IP Networks – from Ac...

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Webinar

An Elegant Migration Path to Modernizing Legacy TDM Networks

Hear from Ciena experts on how to modernize the transport of TDM services over a scal...

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Blog

Top 5 business benefits of modernizing legacy networks

Want to modernize your Business Services (TDM, Layer 2, and Layer 3) to cost-effectiv...

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What is the Adaptive Network?

The Adaptive Network is a new approach that expands on autonomous networking concepts to transform the static network into a dynamic, programmable environment driven by analytics and intelligence.

Our portfolio

Roll out the converged IP and Ethernet metro network of the future with Routing and Switching portfolio.