I spent most of last week at Ciena’s Ottawa lab for an annual Ciena customer event called Vectors Summit. The event brings customers from around the world to Ciena’s main lab facility to talk to experts and executives, and to see detailed product and technology demonstrations under NDA.…

This week I have traveled to Ottawa for one of Ciena’s biggest annual events, Ciena Vectors Summit. Unlike traditional industry trade shows that last a few days or a week at most, CVS spans five weeks in September and October as customers from around the world come to see live in-depth demonstrations…

I?ve been walking around the Vectors Summit event this week feeling like I?ve had a camera glued to my hand.  I?ve just posted a ton of pictures from the event to a new album on the Ciena Facebook page.  A few of them are below, but go to the album to see them all.  I?ll be posting more…

…part of Vectors Summit, a month long event that allows Ciena?s customers to see live demonstrations of our latest technology, talk to our experts and executives, and get a sense for how Ciena technology can help them with their network needs. The discussions and demonstrations at Vectors Summit aren?t…

…experts, attendees were given a tour of several advanced technology demos in-progress in Ciena’s Ottawa labs as part of our broader Ciena Vectors Summit (CVS) 2011 event. Technical demos that the group of partners was given access to included Cloud Computing, Terabit-speed optical transport and…

…the Ciena booth at OFC/NFOEC, we will be highlighting both 400G and Terabit demos that we conducted in our Ottawa labs late last year for our Vectors Summit customer event.   There will also be a generous number of conference sessions talking about what comes after 100G, including several with…

…chipset now in development.  In addition, Ciena will highlight a video from a successful 1Tbps demo conducted last Fall at Ciena’s Vectors Summit customer event.   So why does all this matter?  Today’s news highlights several things. First, the use of our WaveLogic coherent…

…show is part of Ciena’s Vectors series of customer events that provide insights on regional market opportunities.  The Vectors ANZ road show also adds a bit of the flavor from our annual Ciena Vectors Summit (CVS) event held in Ottawa (see Ciena Vectors Summit) by giving customers an insider…

…efforts on Terabit Transport made the news, with Light Reading?s Craig Matsumoto getting a tour of our Ottawa Labs during his visit for Ciena Vectors Summit.  We gave Craig a peek at our Terabit Transport demo during the visit, and he wrote about it in this blog post.  Here?s an excerpt:…

…submarine test bed nestled away in our Ottawa R&D Lab. Late last year when I was visiting Ciena?s Ottawa campus as part of our annual Ciena Vectors Summit customer event, I got to meet Darwin Evans, a member of Ciena?s submarine system development team.  Darwin is based in Ottawa, spending much…