Last week at COMPTEL PLUS, Ciena not only had a booth on the show floor, but we brought "Big Red" -- the nickname our events team has affectionately given to the Ciena Mobile Innovation Lab.  This networking lab on wheels travels across North America, going to trade shows and customer events with…

…truck that crosses North America to attend industry trade shows and customer events now has a new look, having been updated with Ciena?s new branding and messaging on the inside and out.  And also on the inside, the truck now carries the latest and greatest product demos from across the Ciena…

…lab.  But as the Voyager name implies, this lab goes where the action is.  That?s because Voyager 4 is a modified big-rig truck, decked out with the latest Ciena products and solutions, and capable of traveling across Europe to customer events and industry trade shows.      This…

…one in NA and the one in EMEA), but my favorite was this one, with the EMEA truck parked in front of London?s famous Tower Bridge (see the album here). ====================== Fiber Maze This picture was taken during Ciena Vectors Summit (CVS), our annual customer event hosted in Ciena?s Ottawa R&…

…several of our senior execs planning to attend.  But for Ciena, MWC 2011 also will serve as the unveiling of our newest demo lab.   This isn’t your average demo lab, as it is built inside a 16 meter (52 feet), 18-wheel big rid truck – complete with slide-out sides, air conditioning and…

…with Ciena’s ON-Center® Network and Services Management Suite, ensures exceptional service management, while platform flexibility and programmability dramatically reduces operational costs as bandwidth and other service attributes can be remotely provisioned, eliminating expensive truck rolls…

…-testing without the need for truck-rolls. * ActivEdge 3931 Service Delivery Switch: offers the features of the ActivEdge 3930 in an environmentally-sealed enclosure to deliver Carrier Ethernet services in almost any environment in addition to flexible mounting options.  Ciena also announced a new CESD…

For our final look back at last year, we highlight the best videos of 2011.  We had some great videos added to the Ciena YouTube channel in 2011, and generated almost 27,000 views for the year -- more than three times our total for 2010.  But there were also excellent videos created by other…

Comcast is using Ciena Carrier Ethernet gear to provide Metro Ethernet services to customers in more than 20 major markets across the U.S.  The news announced today in this Ciena press release follows the launch by Comcast of their new Metro Ethernet service last month.    Comcast?s Metro…

…ability to remotely increase a customer’s bandwidth via software without rolling a truck or manually touching the box simplifies our operations and improves the customer experience.” Comcast is deploying Ciena’s LE-311v, which is part of a family of service delivery and aggregation platforms…