…line protection and dual-link video services Powered by cutting edge functionality in the EM6, the cutting-edge 4200-based video transport solution supports all SD-SDI, HD-SDI and DVB-ASI video formats with automatic video format recognition. In addition, the 4200 video Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP…

Today's media and entertainment companies, health care providers, and educational organizations are realizing that compressing HD and other high-end video results in a loss of quality. This makes video-from sporting events and cinema to tele-surgery applications-harder to edit and display on today's high-resolution TVs.

…service provider, to deliver a native video transport solution for a leading global entertainment content and broadcast company. The end-user required a solution to replace its current time-consuming and quality-compromising process of compressing and decompressing video signals at multiple sites. Recognizing…

Broadcasters and film and television producers face the challenge of transporting HD video content. The CN 4200 helps broadcasters improve service quality, reliability, and cost by replacing satellite links with dark fiber or managed wavelengths. Producers can eliminate antiquated tape distribution methods and use optical networks to deliver original-quality content efficiently to dispersed post-production teams. The CN 4200 is the only optical service delivery platform capable of transporting HD video in uncompressed format over metro and regional distances with original signal integrity.

…trade show a few weeks ago, Chuck Kaplan, Ciena VP of Portfolio Solutions, did an interview with TMCnet?s Rich Tehrani. TMCnet has just posted that video, which you can see below. In the interview, Chuck talks about the Nortel MEN acquisition and customer reaction to it, progress with integration activities…

The Financial Times has posted a new video interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith.  As part of its "View from the Top" series, FT?s Paul Taylor sat down and talked to Gary last week. Among other topics, Gary talked to Paul about scaling back up from the telecom bust of last decade, why Ciena?s focus…

The booming use of online video sites and services like YouTube, Netflix, Hulu.com and more, has some in the industry hypothesizing that traditional pay TV will suffer.  Not so, says sports media giant ESPN, whose new study of U.S. viewers found that only 0.11% of the television population had…

…figure out "U tube". She had heard about a "How to" video she wanted to watch on a topic she couldn?t find information on anywhere else.  But while how-to videos, news clips and piano-playing cats make up a large part of the one billion video views per day, up until a few weeks ago there was one…

…FT?s Paul Taylor last week and now this week doing a video interview with Scott Moritz of TheStreet.com.  Scott asks Gary about the progress of the company?s integration activities and prods on any possible future activities. Click on the video below to see the full interview.

…to these videos by you and other viewers has been tremendous. Since March, we?ve had over 8,200 video views on our channel, almost three times more than the same period last year.  Next year promises to take our YouTube channel even further, as we add resources to record more videos from more places…