Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is a networking systems, services and software company. We provide solutions that help our customers create the Adaptive Network™ in response to the constantly changing demands of their end-users. By delivering best-in-class networking technology through high-touch consultative relationships, we build the world’s most agile networks with automation, openness and scale. For updates on Ciena, follow us on Twitter @Ciena, LinkedIn, the Ciena Insights blog, or visit www.ciena.com.
Helen Xenos, Ciena's Sr. Director of Portfolio Marketing, talks to Lightwave from the show floor of OFC'22 about the key themes at the show this year and the company's latest ...
The Ciena 8180 Coherent Networking Platform is a high-density stackable packet aggregation switch that combines the density, openness, and programmability of a data center switch...
Great Plains Communications (GPC) has launched deployments of elements of Ciena’s Coherent Routing portfolio in its 13-state network, according to the communications technology...
The Gold Data 1 submarine network will offer 250 Tbps among landing points in Miami in Florida and Cancun and Queretaro in Mexico, with onward connectivity to Mexico City.
The 2400-km CFX-1 express submarine cable links the United States, Jamaica and Colombia with less than 25-ms latency. The 1,700-km EWC undersea cable connects the British Virgin...
The enhanced capabilities are designed to improve delivery of the company’s roster of services to its residential, business, hospitality, and wholesale customers.
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With an eye toward the requirements of its 5G mobile roll out, Vodafone Idea Ltd. (Vi) will leverage optical transport technology from Ciena to upgrade its fiber backbone networks...
The ring network is the first of what CityFibre promises will be a multi-terabit infrastructure roll out to support its Full Fibre broadband network deployments across the UK....
In particular, the collaboration will focus on developing the physical and virtual foundations to enable the connection of “data communities” in hubs such as Tokyo, Osaka, Singapore...
The service provider will use the upgrade to better enable connectivity to data centers, submarine cable landing stations, and telecom exchanges across the Sultanate.
Telxius, a spinout of Telefónica that operates submarine networks that link the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere, says it now offers 400G Ethernet services on its infrastructu...
The regional service provider, focused on the U.S. Upper Midwest, will use the technology to increase network capacity, ensure performance, and more quickly roll out new Layer...
The backbone fiber network offers connections to such Southeast U.S. locations as Atlanta, GA, Ashburn, VA, and Raleigh, Greensboro, and Charlotte, NC.
Altibox Carrier, which provides fiber-optic network services to cloud providers, global webscale providers, and large enterprises in Norway and Denmark, is rolling out 800-Gbps...
Colt partnered with Ciena on the trial, which was conducted between a pair of data centers. Viavi Solutions provided test equipment to verify the results.
Both upgrades were performed in-service, Ciena says. Aqua Comms also has adopted Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller for network management and control as...
Scheduled for completion early next year, the NEXT submarine cable will add a third geographically diverse route to Southern Cross’s Pacific undersea network ecosystem.
The service provider will use the 800-Gbps wavelengths to support the delivery of aggregated 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 400GbE services, says Ciena.
Use of Ciena’s latest generation coherent optical engine will increase transmission rates, lower latency, and improve economic efficiency, according to Ciena.
Ciena says that, through the modernization program, Windstream will be able to provide multi-Gbps protected connections in support of its mobile network operator customers.
The deal will see Ciena deliver coherent optical and packet transport technologies to improve the operation of the combination’s fiber-optic network infrastructure.
800G will enable network providers to scale their entire optical infrastructure, achieving record-breaking capacity per wavelength for all network paths.
The German communications services provider is pairing the network automation capabilities under its iFusion initiative with a partially disaggregated multi-vendor optical network...
The distance is the longest reported for an 800G field trial on a production network this year, surpassing the 950 km Infinera reported earlier this year.
While Windstream recently announced a sole-source contract to Ciena for its new National Converged Optical Network, a source at the U.S. service provider left the door open for...
The enhanced transmission capabilities will help support Spark’s 5G services as well as transporting the service provider’s broadband, landline, and business customer traffic....
The use of line cards sporting Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent transmission chipset will raise transmission capacity to up to 450 Gbps per channel.
FatPipe Networks says it now offers a SD-WAN Multi-Function VNF (virtual network function) capability that runs on Ciena’s 3906 and 3926 universal customer premises equipment ...
The link uses optical transmission technology from Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) and Innolight alongside a white-box router from UfiSpace based on the Broadcom Jericho2 Distributed Disaggregated...
Dell’Oro also reports that network operators have begun to shift their requirements to wavelengths at 200 Gbps and above, which in turn signals a slowing of demand for 100-Gbps...
The OIF Network Operators Working Group has revealed plans to conduct a survey of global operators regarding next-generation coherent optics application requirements, features...
The deployment will begin next year and will increase capacity in such markets as Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, and Paris as part of an initiative to create what Telia Carrier...
Colt Technology Services says it has upgraded the Colt IQ Network through the addition of Ciena’s WaveLogic Ai coherent transmission technology as well as a conversion to flexible...
Blue Planet says its software will enhancethe adaptability, agility, and reliability of its network and provide “a cloud-like experience” to its customers.
The diverse, low-latency network connects Toronto’s largest carrier hotels, Equinix TR2 at 45 Parliament Street and 151 Front Street West, to Equinix NY4 in Secaucus, NJ. It also...
The upgrade will enable Internet2 to deploy 800-Gbps wavelengths in metro locations and support 400 Gigabit Etherent interconnect over native 400G wavelengths.
Crosslake has constructed the network to supply dark fiber services between the Canadian and U.S. cities. The submarine portion lands just northwest of Lockport, NY, on the U....
The initiative will connect approximately 400 miles of already deployed public and private fiber infrastructure to help bring broadband services to potentially more than 230,000...
The market research firm notes in its newly released “Optical Customer Markets Report” that other customer segments should be expected to increase purchases this year as well....
The market research firm states in its latest “Optical Applications Report” that compact modular hardware sales are on pace to exceed $1 billion by the end of 2019.
The capability, which leverages technology from Ericsson and Ciena, reduces service restoration time from the previous average of eight hours to less than 30 minutes.
The service provider will use the packet-optical transport systems for its fiber-optic network between Toronto and New York City. The route is distinct because it runs across ...
The market research firm adds in its most recent “Optical Hardware Report” that China and the Europe/Middle East/Asia (EMEA) markets also showed growth, while the Americas did...
Through a combination of artificial intelligence and the ability to leverage other Blue Planet software tools, PNO can help network operators void up to 95% of fiber network outages...
Data center service provider Cologix now offers customers connectivity to major cloud services providers through the software-defined networking (SDN) enabled Cologix Access Marketplace...
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) says its Blue Planet division has supplied inventory and service orchestration platforms to FiberLight. The metro and long-haul fiber network service provider...
Windstream says it plans to use Ciena’s (NYSE:CIEN) 5170 Service Aggregation Platform to support the launch of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services as well as expand its 10GbE ...
Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP, the company that owns and operates the submarine network of the same name, has established a point of presence in the Westin Building Exchange (WBX...
TelemaxX Telekommunikation GmbH is deploying packet networking platforms from Ciena (NYSE: CIEN). The German data center services provider will use the systems to roll out Ethernet...
Data center services provider QTS Realty Trust will deploy the Waveserver Ai from Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), the networking technology and services company says. The deployment will ...
The Consortium for On-Board Optics (COBO) has released Coherent COBO; CohOBO Applications, an application note that describes how COBO-specified technology can support coherent...
After more than two years of weakness, spending by North American network operators on long-haul WDM gear turned positive in the fourth quarter of last year, according to Cignal...
As Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) readies to incorporate its newly announced WaveLogic 5 coherent DSPs into its optical transport platforms, the company’s Optical Microsystems unit is prepping...
Sales of DWDM systems grew 8% in 2018, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. Huawei, Ciena, and Nokia ascended to the top market share spots for the year; the three accounted...
IHS Markit has released the results of its most recent optical transmission and switching brand preference survey. The results were good news for Ciena, Huawei, and Nokia, which...
BT will deploy Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) says it will supply its Waveserver data center interconnect (DCI) platform to BT. The UK incumbent will use the platforms to connect its data...
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) has unveiled WaveLogic 5, new iterations of its WaveLogic coherent engine ASIC. WaveLogic 5 will support 800-Gbps coherent transmission and come in two versions...
For the sixth year of our optical communications technology recognition program, we’ve gone back to basics. As always, we invited technology developers to submit products in various...
Ciena’s 8180 Coherent Networking Platform was designed to elevate the experience of cable operator end-customers by bringing capacity closer to the edge with an open/easy-to-operate...
Conterra Ultra Broadband Holdings, Inc. (also known as Conterra Networks), which is rapidly expanding its footprint via acquisition, has elected to install additional optical ...
Vianet Communications, a fixed broadband operator in Nepal, will deploy Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and 5160 Service Aggregation Switch to meet unpredictable traffic ...
Cloud and colocation services providers continued their strong spending on optical network hardware in the third quarter of 2018, says Cignal AI. The segment’s spend set another...
