Year in review: Ciena’s 8 biggest announcements of 2018

As we close out another year, we look back at Ciena's biggest news and announcements of 2018.

What's in store for Asia Pacific Networking in 2019

From 5G to AI to the move to virtualization, Ciena’s Anup Changaroth gives his insights on the major trends that are likely to drive the Asia Pacific telecom landscape in 2019.

Outpacing Bandwidth Demands with an Open, Intelligent Network – Right to the Edge

Ciena just walked away with 3 awards from the Telecom Asia Readers' Choice & Innovation Awards. Willie Low details how the three solutions that were recognized are helping service providers across Asia create more open and intelligent networks.

Accelerating Access to Cloud Connectivity

Tyler Coates, Senior Vice President for Enterprise at Zayo, details the company’s efforts to speed and simplify enterprise access to public cloud resources using tools like Ciena’s Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestration.

Ciena Completes Acquisition of DonRiver

Ciena has officially completed the acquisition of DonRiver. Blue Planet's Kailem Anderson details how the integration of these new capabilities into our Blue Planet portfolio will help our customers in their journey to the Adaptive Network.

6 ways to boost your success with network orchestration and automation

In the third and final post in our series on the Adaptive Network and how it can help overcome today’s tough network management conditions, we explore network orchestration and automation. Software is a critical asset for operators looking to support exponential traffic growth and deliver complex IoT and 5G use cases. But software for future networking isn’t just about SDN controllers. It’s also about robust orchestration, automation, and analytics capabilities, says Karim Dembri, Sales and Business Development Manager, Ciena.

Multi-Layer Networks? Intelligent Multi-Layer Orchestration Has Arrived

There are many challenges that service providers must deal with in multi-layer networks. A majority of them stem from the lack of coordinated visibility and orchestration across the optical and IP/MPLS layers. Ciena’s Kailem Anderson details these challenges and the benefits that multi-layer orchestration can bring. For even more details, also be sure to attend our upcoming Light Reading webinar.

Ciena Completes Acquisition of Packet Design

Ciena has officially completed the acquisition of Packet Design. Blue Planet's Kailem Anderson details how the integration of these new capabilities into our Blue Planet portfolio will help our customers in their path to the Adaptive Network.

What is streaming telemetry?

How to monitor IP routing to the cloud

Blue Planet's Derrick Mealiffe explains why monitoring IP routing to the cloud plays a critical role for enterprises with cloud-based services, and how routing analytics technology helps network engineers understand and optimize IP routing for improved network performance and reliability.

Rapid service provisioning with Blue Planet Route Optimization and Assurance

With real-time telemetry, analytics, optimization, and policy, Blue Planet Route Optimization and Assurance is making it possible for service providers to reap the benefits of automation.

Using “The 3 V’s of Automation” to maximize automation ROI

For traditional Communications Service Providers (CSPs), the barriers to applying automation are coming down faster than ever before due to the use of new technologies such as analytics and machine learning. So what is different, and why is now the time to act?

More about PCE: Path computation in the SDN world

Being a Catalyst of Industry Change

Order-to-activation lag is especially problematic for inter-carrier services. Ciena's Sam Torrente details how Ciena Blue Planet and DGIT Systems worked together to create an award-winning solution using open APIs and service abstraction to automate service delivery from end-to-end in minutes.

Ovum Survey: What the market is saying about D-NFV

A new Ovum survey of 200 enterprise decision-makers provides some surprising insights on their views of Distributed NFV.

Monitoring and managing multi-layer, multi-service networks

Virtualize Your Submarine Cable

Ongoing growth in subsea bandwidth demand has the industry looking for new technologies that can further expand submarine cable capacity. Ciena's Brian Lavallee details how L-band spectrum and spectrum sharing could provide an answer.

Q&A with EXFO: Understanding Submarine OSNR

In advance of PTC’18, Ciena’s Brian Lavallée sat down with Jean-Sébastien Tassé of EXFO to discuss the importance and intricacies of properly measuring OSNR across submarine cable networks.

Retail Digitization… Friend or Foe?

The online world is acting as a disruptor to the retail industry. But the same tools that allow consumers to become increasingly informed -- networks and data analytics -- can also be leveraged by retailers to gain competitive advantage. Ciena's Brian Lavallée explains.

IHS Markit releases latest service provider optical survey, Ciena scores big

In IHS Markit’s new service provider survey, Ciena came out as a leader across multiple categories, including Top Optical Transmission and Switching Equipment Vendor.  Here’s a snapshot of the survey results, and a free download of the report excerpts.

Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 8 Announcements of 2017

As we close out another year, we look back at Ciena's biggest news and announcements of 2017.

Ciena’s Ultimate eBook Holiday Bundle is Back: 2017 Edition

Looking for some casual light reading this holiday season as you kick back in your favorite chair drinking eggnog? Well, look somewhere else…Ciena’s ultimate eBook holiday bundle is back and it’s not for the faint of heart.

AutoHack18: Unleashing the Power of Open Platforms through Creativity and Innovation

Ciena is collaborating with University of Melbourne's Networked Society Institute (NSI) and nbn for AutoHack18, a unique extended-form hackathon in which University of Melbourne students are invited to participate and create innovative automation solutions using the Blue Planet software suite. Ciena's Matt Vesperman has all the details. Pictured above are the three judges from "Pitch Night" of the event.  From left to right: Carolyn Phiddian, Principal Architect for Technology Innovation at nbn Australia, Ivan Polizzi, Director of Sales for Australia at Ciena, and Ken Clarke, Deputy Director at MNSI Lab.

We Don’t Need No Education: 3 Reasons Pink Floyd Had It Right

You finished school many years ago, but your ongoing education is more important than ever. Ciena 's Learning Service new Discover Series of free, self-paced learning courses has you covered.