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Ciena's OPn Network Architecture

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 401 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena CTO Steve Alexander explains OPn, Ciena's open and programmable, software-definable network architecture that transforms the economics and utility of network operators.
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Ciena Network Transformation Solutions

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 469 Views / 0 Likes

Analysts, partners, and Ciena network specialists discuss how our services transform networks.
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Tutorial: Modern Carrier Ethernet

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 373 Views / 0 Likes

This tutorial provides a lighthearted introduction to several facets of modern Carrier Ethernet, including G.8032 Ethernet Protected Rings, IEEE 802.1ag, OA&M, Ethernet circuit testing, automated service turn-up, and MEF Ethernet services. LEARN MORE: Wat
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Introducing Ciena's 5160 And 5142 Service Aggregation Switches

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 10.1k Views / 0 Likes

Ciena's Mike Drew introduces Ciena's 5160 and 5142 Service Aggregation Switches -- the two newest members of our Packet Networking Portfolio.
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OTN Speedwagon: Cover Of 'Walk This Way'

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 429 Views / 0 Likes

Live performance by OTN Speedwagon at the Finals of the 2013 FORTUNE Corporate Battle of the Bands at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. OTN Speedwagon is the official rock band of Ciena Corporation. Song performed is "Walk this Way" by Aerosmit
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OTN Speedwagon: Band Interview

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 371 Views / 0 Likes

An interview with OTN Speedwagon -- the official rock band of Ciena Corporation -- before the band's performance in the Finals of the 2013 FORTUNE Corporate Battle of the Bands at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. For more about the band and th
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OTN Speedwagon: Cover Of 'My Old School'

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 495 Views / 0 Likes

Live performance by OTN Speedwagon at the Finals of the 2013 FORTUNE Corporate Battle of the Bands at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. OTN Speedwagon is the official rock band of Ciena Corporation. Song performed is "My Old School" by Steely D
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OTN Speedwagon: Cover Of 'Heart Of Rock And Roll'

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 430 Views / 0 Likes

Live performance by OTN Speedwagon at the Finals of the 2013 FORTUNE Corporate Battle of the Bands at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. OTN Speedwagon is the official rock band of Ciena Corporation. Song performed is "Heart of Rock and Roll" by
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The Life Of The 10GbE Party: Ciena 5160

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 464 Views / 0 Likes

With 24 ports of 10GbE in a one rack unit (1RU) form factor and rich OAM, Ciena's 5160 is sure to be the life of the 10GbE party. More packets, less box. What you got? For more visit http://www.ciena.com/10GbE
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Inside Ciena's Double-Decker Mobile Demo Lab

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 283 Views / 0 Likes

FutureLab, Ciena's completely revamped mobile demo lab is a complete and functioning next-gen network on wheels that travels to customer and partner events across North America. With the press of a button the sides expand and the roof raises to create a f
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Take 10: Packetize Without Compromise

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 287 Views / 0 Likes

. ***To see all our Take 10 videos visit: http://bit.ly/ZPcpHU *** Ciena's Packet Networking expert John Hawkins talks about Ciena's recent launch of integrated Packet networking capabilities into our flagship Ciena 6500 Packet-Optical Platform. .
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Built For Government & Enterprise From The Ground Up

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 406 Views / 0 Likes

National government agencies operating medium- to large-scale networks for defense, aeronautics, military, and intelligence needs don't need vendors. They need a partner. Ciena is that partner. LEARN MORE: Government Industries http://www.ciena.com/indust
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Take 10: GeoMesh - Uniting Submarine And Terrestrial Networks

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 412 Views / 0 Likes

***To see all our Take 10 videos visit: http://bit.ly/ZPcpHU *** In this 10 minute introduction, Ciena's Submarine Networking expert Brian Lavallée talks about Ciena's GeoMesh solution, which unites submarine cable networks and terrestrial networks to cre
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In The Lab: Packet Switching On The Ciena 6500

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 502 Views / 0 Likes

We go in the lab with Ciena network architect Gerald Smallegange in Ottawa as he shows off some of the new packet switching features of the Ciena 6500 in action. LEARN MORE: Packet-Optical Convergence http://www.ciena.com/solutions/packet-networking/tab/p
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Ciena 6500: Packets And Light Done Right

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 496 Views / 0 Likes

Don't compromise with your network. Ciena's 6500 E-Suite combines packet and optical capabilities along with a single cross-portfolio network management solution to give you an unfair advantage with your network.
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GeoMesh: Land, Sea, Cloud. Networks Unite

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 427 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena's GeoMesh solution unites submarine and terrestrial networks. The new way to design global networks is to view terrestrial and submarine networks as a single network entity. This allows service providers to guarantee end-to-end network performance f
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Ciena Network Monetization

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 322 Views / 0 Likes

Industry analysts Erin Dunne of Vertical Systems Group and Alan Breznick of Heavy Reading discuss the need for service providers to differentiate their Business Ethernet Service offerings to better compete in today's competitive market.
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Make Transformation Possible With Ciena

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 459 Views / 0 Likes

Transformation is everywhere. We are now an app-centric, fully mobile, on-demand society where near-limitless cloud-based computing power and storage is available at our fingertips with the click of a button. Ciena can help you transform your network, you
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What Would You Like To Make Possible?

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 384 Views / 0 Likes

What would you like to make possible? At Ciena we connect people, continents, and ideas to create an open world rich with possibilities. The future won't be held back. To stay informed about what Ciena is making possible, visit: http://www.ciena.com/resou
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Three Trends For Submarine Networks

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 397 Views / 0 Likes

In this video, Ciena's Asia-Pacific CTO Karl Horne gives three key trends in the submarine cable networks market. Thanks to the team at Terrapinn for providing this video interview from the Submarine Networks World 2013 conference in Singapore.
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In The Lab: Zero-Touch Ethernet Services Deployment

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 390 Views / 0 Likes

Bashar Abdullah discusses Ciena's zero touch provisioning solution and how it enables customers to realize quicker time to revenue. We'll also look at aspects of G8032 that enables operators to control and manage deployment of new devices in their network
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In The Lab: What Is Soft FEC?

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 315 Views / 0 Likes

In this video from Ciena's R&D lab in Ottawa, Michael Hubbard, a hardware systems architect for our packet-optical portfolio, introduces Soft Forward Error Correction (Soft-FEC). Using an example of coherent optical transport using 16QAM modulation, Micha
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In The Lab: Evolving To A Gridless Network Architecture

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 356 Views / 0 Likes

Darwin Evans discusses more efficient ways to use the bandwidth on a gridless submarine system. How to adapt your flexible grid system, increase spectral efficiency and become filterless. Learn more about WaveLogic3 and going gridless: White paper: http:/
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One Maryland: Statewide Broadband Network

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 532 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena CEO Gary Smith joins local leaders from the state of Maryland as they talk about the impact of the recently completed One Maryland Inter-County Broadband Network (ICBN). With over 1,000 miles of fiber optic cable, and spanning every county in the st
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Interop Keynote: The Experience Of Openness By Ciena CTO Steve Alexander

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 409 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena CTO Steve Alexander's keynote presentation on October 2, 2013 at the Interop New York and Ethernet/SDN Expo.
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OTN Speedwagon: And The Winners Is...

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 361 Views / 0 Likes

The awards ceremony at the Finals of the 2013 FORTUNE Corporate Battle of the Bands at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. OTN Speedwagon won several awards for their performance. For more about the band and their performance at the Rock Hall, vi
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Ciena's Approach To Expansively Open SDN Networks

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 328 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena SDN expert Mitch Auster details Ciena's approach to software-defined networking (SDN), which incorporates concepts such as open northbound and southbound interfaces, as well as a modular control layer. Learn more about Ciena SDN at http://bit.ly/1hH
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Integrated 100G Line Testing On The Ciena 6500

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 484 Views / 0 Likes

One way Ciena has simplified the deployment of 40G and 100G coherent solutions is through the integration of test-set capabilities into the transponder equipment, allowing operators to test the complete or partial network paths for 10G, 40G, or 100G servi
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Ciena 8700: A Game Changer For Metro Networks

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 427 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena's new 8700 Packetwave Platform is a new class device, focused on programmable Ethernet over DWDM by leveraging the best of the data center and the best of the metro network. Rick Dodd and Steve Alexander of Ciena, as well as Michael Howard of analys
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Steve Alexander: Agility For An App-centric Network

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 394 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena CTO Steve Alexander talks about the company's new Agility software portfolio for SDN/NFV, including the flexible applications that can run on the network, the decision to build our SDN controller on an OpenDaylight framework, and the ecosystem of pa
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Ciena Agility: A Common Ecosystem. Uncommon Possibilities.

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 397 Views / 0 Likes

Clive Foreman, Ciena's VP of Software Engineering, talks about Ciena's new Agility Software Portfolio for SDN and NFV, and our approach to true openness with SDN and NFV networks. Ciena's focus on transformation isn't just about networks. It's about openn
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Is Your Metro Network Ready For The Onslaught Of Demand?

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 340 Views / 0 Likes

Steve Alexander, Ciena's SVP and CTO, talks about the company's new 8700 Packetwave Platform and prepare your metro network for the demands of today and tomorrow. The metro network is in the center of the user experience, connecting people to content, sup
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Introducing Ciena's 8700 Packetwave Platform

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 511 Views / 0 Likes

The 8700 Packetwave leverages high performance coherent optics combined with programmable Ethernet and power/space efficiencies. That's the best of the data center and the best of the metro network.
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Ciena 8700: The Best Of Metro Meets The Best Of The Data Center

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 432 Views / 0 Likes

Rick Dodd, Ciena SVP of Global Marketing, explains how cloud services are placing extraordinary demands on the metro network. Programmability, power efficiency, and density, typical of data center networks are new requirements for the metro network. And,
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5 Benefits Of Private Optical Networks

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 393 Views / 0 Likes

Sometimes private is better. Like in the case of Private Optical Networks. Controlling your own network gives you the flexibility to add more bandwidth when you need it, meet the ever-increasing demands of your business operations, and enjoy peace of mind
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Dynamic Pricing For Bandwidth-on-demand

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 434 Views / 0 Likes

By using software-defined networks (SDN), network operators can leverage real-time network and bandwidth demand analytics to create dynamic pricing for bandwidth-on-demand services. This innovative structure allows the service provider to dynamically matc
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The Network Agility Gap

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 436 Views / 0 Likes

Francois Locoh-Donou, Senior VP of Ciena's Global Products Group, who heads-up Ciena's R&D organization, gives a plenary presentation on "The Agility Gap" at the Open Networking Summit in February 2014. His presentation focused on the ability for service
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Ciena PinPoint Advanced Fiber Analytics

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 302 Views / 0 Likes

PinPoint, Ciena's fiber analytic software, leverages integrated Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) capabilities to create a complete fiber loss profile, similar to taking a CT scan of the network. Now, you can precisely localize and deal with potent
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Ciena CEO Gary Smith: OFC 2014 Keynote

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 424 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena CEO Gary Smith's opening session presentation at OFC 2014, March 11th in San Francisco.
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Ciena CEO Gary Smith: 3 Key Ingredients To Network Transformation

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 441 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena CEO Gary Smith talks about the three key ingredients to network transformation, making the network agile enough to rapidly support new services and customer demands. For more on Ciena's network transformation efforts visit: http://bit.ly/1j2xaH9
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Ciena's WaveLogic Photonics For An Intelligent Optical Layer

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 423 Views / 0 Likes

WaveLogic Photonics is Ciena's intelligent photonic system comprising WaveLogic coherent optics and flexible line elements that combine with embedded control plane intelligence and discrete software tools to offer superior automation, control, and visibil
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Chalk Talk: What Is The Future Of Networks?

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 430 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena CTO Steve Alexander about the future direction of communications networks, which are increasingly focused on being a enabling platform for running applications.
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Ciena's Agility SDN Controller

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 426 Views / 0 Likes

Chris Janz, Ciena's VP of Market Development, talks about our new Agility Software Portfolio for SDN and NFV, including our new carrier-scale multilayer SDN controller. For more on Ciena's new Agility Software Portfolio visit http://bit.ly/1kBWROH
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In The Lab With Ciena's 6200 Packet-Optical Platform

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 598 Views / 1 Likes

Ciena's Helen Xenos gives an overview of the 6200 Packet-Optical Platform, a dense edge aggregation transport device that supports a mix of PDH, TDM, and Carrier Ethernet, all in one compact platform. It supports existing and emerging next-generation serv
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Introducing Ciena’s Strategic Alliances Program

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 445 Views / 0 Likes

Real savings. Easier deployments. Proven interoperability. At Ciena, we’re partnering with some of the industry’s most innovative companies to create reference architectures and solutions that will allow you to maximize your multi-vendor network investmen
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Ciena's V-WAN: How Do You Get Performance On-demand?

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 401 Views / 0 Likes

V-WAN from Ciena’s Agility software portfolio offers the most complete on-demand services solution. It offers the operational and business flexibility needed to align bandwidth to business value, and shifts to an SDN-powered on-demand service model. To le
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In The Lab: World's First 400GbE Interoperability Demo

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 303 Views / 0 Likes

Straight from Ciena's R&D labs in Ottawa, Dave Doucet shows a live world's first demonstration of interoperability between and a 400GbE service line and 3rd party test set. We used a test set from IXIA for this demo, interoperating with Ciena's 6500 Packe
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In The Lab With Ciena’s 6500 Optical Encryption Solution

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 576 Views / 0 Likes

Ciena's Patrick Scully gives us an overview of the 4x10G Optical Transponder (OTR) with encryption capabilities available for Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform family. This line card can encrypt at line speeds using an industry-recognized FIPS 140-2 Le
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Introducing Ciena's Bandwidth On-Demand Solution

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 519 Views / 0 Likes

Today's cloud-driven world demands more from networks than just static bandwidth. New bandwidth on demand (BoD) and Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) models are needed in order for network service providers to meet the dynamic bandwidth needs of their enterpris
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LightRiver’s Concord Lab Featuring Ciena’s 6500

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 377 Views / 0 Likes

LightRiver Technologies, a Ciena BizConnect Diamond Partner, gives us a peek inside their Concord Lab. The LightRiver Concord lab was designed to showcase the features and functions of yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s technology in a real-world network
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What Is Ciena's Agility SDN/NFV Portfolio?

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 445 Views / 0 Likes

Rick Dodd gives a quick overview of Agility, Ciena's SDN and NFV software portfolio that includes an SDN controller based on the OpenDaylight framework, as well as several network apps.
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Introducing Ciena's Agility Software Portfolio For SDN And NFV

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 458 Views / 0 Likes

In today's networks, speed, velocity, and time to provision rule the day. Ciena's new Agility software portfolio combines our management platform, Multilayer WAN Controller, and network-level applications to give you the power to program your networks for
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Chalk Talk: Ciena's WaveLogic 3 Extreme Coherent Chipset

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 460 Views / 0 Likes

Looking for extreme performance from all applications? From metro and regional networks to ultra-long-haul submarine, the WaveLogic 3 Extreme is taking 100G where no 100G has gone before. In this Chalk Talk session, Michael Hubbard shows how WaveLogic 3 E
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Chalk Talk: Ciena's WaveLogic 3 Nano Coherent Chipset

by Ciena Channel Added 10 years ago 443 Views / 0 Likes

Designed to address the density challenge of introducing 100G coherent into the metro, WaveLogic 3 Nano is the next stage in WaveLogic 3's evolution. Optimized for smaller size, lower power consumption, and higher density, Ciena's Will Leckie explains how
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