Paulina Gomez
Senior Advisor, Product & Technology Marketing
Paulina Gomez is Senior Advisor of Product and Technology Marketing at Ciena. She is responsible for increasing the profile of Ciena’s Converged Packet-Optical solutions and technologies in the market, including Ciena’s popular 6500 family of platforms and Liquid Spectrum applications. Paulina brings a wealth of experience having spent over 25 years working within the telecommunications industry, spanning various roles including product verification and systems engineering.
Insights from Paulina Gomez
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Pioneering the path for Quantum-Secured Long-Distance Communications: What’s next
What are the latest developments in quantum-secured communications and what could the future hold? Ciena’s Paulina Gomez sits down with Farzam Toudeh-Fallah, R&D Director of Quantum Communications at Ciena, to discuss.
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How bold hardware and software innovations are changing the game in optical networking
How are hardware and software advancements helping network operators solve key challenges they face today? Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains.
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Predictive analytics: the key to optimizing your optical network
How are network providers using analytics and automation to evolve their networks? Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains – and you can hear the details directly from New Zealand service provider Spark. Find out what other key insights you will gain
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A smarter way: how analytics apps are solving your optical network challenges
Data is coming fast and furious for network providers – how can they understand what is happening so they can make smarter decisions to transform their optical network operations? Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how customers are doing this today
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Optical Network Expert Series: How near-zero margin networking changes network economics
Ciena’s Paulina Gomez introduces our “Optical Network Expert Series: A guide to improving future network economics with near-zero margin networking” blog series. She explains what you will learn from our experts working to develop the hardware
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The key ingredients you need to be the master chef of your photonic network
Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how operators can benefit from following the right recipe to automate the photonic layer.
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How photonic control plane advancements are benefiting network operators
A photonic control plane is not new to optical networks, but new capabilities are changing how operators can benefit from it. Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how the photonic control plane is helping operators transform their networks.
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Understanding why CDC with flexible grid is so popular for next-gen networks
As Colorless-Directionless-Contentionless (CDC) with flexible grid (CDC-F) is becoming a reality for some network operators do you really know what they mean, why they are being adopted and what benefits they provide? Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains
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4 critical requirements for the next-gen photonic layer
Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains the four critical photonic layer requirements to ensuring a successful network transformation.
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How well do you know Ciena’s 6500 Family of Packet-Optical Platforms?
Sure you have heard of Ciena’s 6500 family of packet-optical platforms, but do you really know each member of the family and how they deliver scale, flexibility and openness to enable a programmable infrastructure foundation for the Adaptive
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Following the 3-pillar approach to effective security strategy
Large-scale data breaches are reported in the press almost daily, with devastating consequences for the organizations and individuals involved. A multi-layer security strategy minimizes cybersecurity risks for your organization and streamlines the
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5 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About In-Flight Data Encryption
Ciena's Paulina Gomez sheds some light on the story of in-flight data and how to protect it with these compelling encryption facts.
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How new legislation is changing data protection requirements
Take a look at a couple pieces of new legislation that aim to stem the tide of security breaches. If you do business in the EU or New York State, the legislation will be of keen interest to you.
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Why Packet/OTN Switching is making its way into metro enterprises
Once just a technology for big service provider networks, Packet/OTN Switching is now making its way into Enterprise Metro networks. Ciena's Paulina Gomez explains why.
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What Happens When Quantum Physics Meets Cryptography?
Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how research and development in cryptography is underway and how it could radically change encryption and network security.
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Why TLS/SSL encryption techniques are not enough and still expose you to hacking threats
If your in-flight data encryption strategy relies on TLS and SSL, you may not be as secure as you think. That's because these techniques don't encrypt all the data being being transferred, exposing a vulnerable gap within your security strategy.
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3 Key Video Transport Innovation Trends We Heard at the #NABShow
At last week’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, innovation was a consistent theme. Ciena’s Paulina Gomez highlights three trends from the show related to video transport innovation.
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5 Benefits Layer 1 Encryption-as-a-Service Brings to Your Security Strategy
With all the efforts to lock down data at rest with firewalls, anti-virus software, and intrusion detection, cyber criminals are turning their attention to intercepting the data in transit. Encryption-as-a-Service (EaaS) can help. Ciena's Paulina
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How To Hack an Optical Fiber in Minutes… And How You Can Secure It
Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption, is the most effective means to protect against a fiber optic tap, as it protects all in-flight data, all the time...
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Ciena Powers Zayo’s Managed Encryption Service
Zayo Group announced that it is using Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption solution to deliver the enhanced network security increasingly required by today’s enterprises. This will allow Zayo to quickly upgrade existing customers and offer new