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12 Mind-Blowing Data Center Facts You Need to Know
These 12 mind-blowing facts about the world's data centers will have your head spinning.
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The 5G bandwidth promise is a whopping 10Gbps to each end user. But what would someone actually do with this amount of bandwidth?
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Karl Horne Q&A: MDSO is the Key to Rolling wi ...
Karl Horne鈥擟iena鈥檚 CTO for the Asia Pacific region 鈥攅xplains how multi-domain service orchestration (MDSO) is crucial to helping ...
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3 Classroom Tech Trends Impacting Your Education ...
With classroom and educational technology usage exploding, it鈥檚 time to examine three tech trends that are going to have a signif ...
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Blue Planet Q&A: Services, SDN, and NFV
Ciena's Joe Cumello and Pamela Morgan talk to Telecom Ramblings about their experiences rolling out our Blue Planet portfolio wit ...
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Realizing the Digital Age: Why connecting the pla ...
Most of us share the firmly-held belief that by connecting the planet we will truly transform the world and improve both producti ...
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12 Questions Answered about Submarine Data Center ...
As the recent news that Microsoft and Facebook plan to build a subsea cable across Atlantic demonstrates, the need to optimize in ...
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Protecting $10 Trillion Worth of Transactions, Ev ...
Back in 2010, under the auspices of the IEEE, the Reliability of Global Undersea Cable Communications Infrastructure (ROGUCCI) re ...
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Nothing but Growth for UK Virtualisation Market A ...
What did a recent study of UK business demand for virtual IT services and NFV reveal? The results may surprise you.
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Ciena Powers Zayo鈥檚 Managed Encryption Service
Zayo Group announced that it is using Ciena鈥檚 WaveLogic Encryption solution to deliver the enhanced network security increasingly ...
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The Story Behind the First Reliable Trans-Atlanti ...
Learn the history of the first reliable subsea cable across the Atlantic in 1866 and how fast transmission speed has improved ove ...
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Ciena CEO Gary Smith: Is the Digital Revolution t ...
For all the talk of a 鈥渄igital revolution鈥� we have yet to see anywhere near the same economic growth or impact as past inustrial ...
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Is SDN the Golden Ticket? Only if you know how to ...
Just because everyone has a golden ticket doesn鈥檛 mean that it鈥檚 going to be a smooth ride through the SDN chocolate factory.
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Multi-Terabit Submarine Cables鈥� Too Big to Fail?
Report in 2010 found that nearly 100 percent of the world鈥檚 intercontinental electronic communications traffic is carried by the ...
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Overcoming the Top 5 Challenges of Data Center In ...
Learn about five of the biggest DCI challenges and how to reduce or eliminate each.
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A (Miserable) Day in the Life of a Submarine Fiel ...
Meet Erik. Erik is a submarine network field technician. Erik has a tough job. Let's look at all the challenges he faces in tryin ...
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Traveling Farther Just Got Smarter with 300G 8QAM ...
Ciena, CANARIE and StarLight collaborate on a 300G trail over a live research network using 8QAM modulation.
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Ethernet vs. Carrier Ethernet: The New Network Pa ...
Ethernet is everyone's favorite networking technology. Its ubiquity and popularity have pushed it outside the LAN and across almo ...
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Ciena's Keri Gilder on Trends, Traction, DevOps a ...
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Top 10 things utilities should know about packet ...
Utilities are in a time of transition. Legacy communications circuits are being discontinued by carriers and there is pressure fo ...
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Opening Up Networks To Choice, At Last
In a world that was previously incapable of being software-driven, fully-integrated solutions once upon a time made sense.
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3 Keys to Having the Right APIs for SDN and NFV
We all understand the promise of SDN and NFV and its ability to unlock agility, flexibility and speed for the network
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8 Slides from Mary Meeker鈥檚 2016 internet and ban ...
Richard van der Draay reviews some of the findings, focusing mainly on bandwidth growth and usage.
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The DevOps Revolution: The 鈥淛ig is Up鈥� for Legacy ...
Ciena Blue Planet introduces its new DevOps Toolkit. The Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit provides a platform to create, modify, test a ...