…network connectivity. With Ciena’s proven networking architectures, one can comfortably drive as much as 95 percent network utilization for increased throughput, along with better access performance, scalability, availability and lower network latency. Today’s private enterprise networks…

…network bandwidth—whether across a city or across the globe—can be as elastic, programmable and virtualized as storage and servers are today. EMC World Demonstration • At EMC World, Ciena will demonstrate interoperability with EMC’s VPLEX Metro and VPLEX GEO virtualization solutions…

…dilemmas for network operators—including how best to accommodate the need to provision higher-rate circuits, both for enterprise private-line customers and for operators’ own infrastructure for higher-layer services. Driven by trends such as storage/computing virtualization, data center interconnect…

…Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced its plans for creating software-enabled, service-driven networks that turn seemingly disparate network elements into an intelligent, cohesive platform that can be controlled on-demand. Transforming networks into programmable service delivery…

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…Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) A cell relay network protocol which encodes data traffic into small fixed-sized (53 byte: 48 bytes of data and 5 bytes of header information) cells instead of variable-sized packets, as found in packet-switched networks such as the Internet Protocol or Ethernet. It is…

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…virtualization and cloud-based services on their wide area networking needs, they are relying more on managed networks provided by service-focused carriers like RCN. Enterprises must also meet growing compliance requirements by assuring networks are secure and reliable. In fact, the threat of network…

Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced it will demonstrate its networking solutions at EMC World, May 21-24 in Las Vegas, in a simulated hybrid cloud environment to show how businesses can speed distribution of applications and data between data centers and to…

…(NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced the direction of its portfolio of network infrastructure and service delivery solutions following the completion of its acquisition of the optical networking and Carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel’s+ Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business. The…