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Why neoscalers are looking to the Gulf

The Gulf is becoming a key destination for neoscalers—AI infrastructure providers—due to its combination of strategic location, power availability, land readiness, and sovereignty-focused digital infr…

The new trends in Managed Optical Fiber Networks redefining connectivity

Scaling AI in Australia: Infrastructure, connectivity, and opportunity

Australia is rapidly expanding its AI infrastructure with AI factories and distributed GPU clusters, requiring high-capacity optical networks for data ingestion, distributed training, and inference. T…

5 ways AI is reshaping data center connectivity

Ciena’s blog outlines five routing and switching use cases where AI is driving demand for higher-capacity, lower-latency data center connectivity, including FlexE convergence, coherent routing, and Se…

Spotlight on Trans Americas Fiber System: Innovative connectivity for the Americas

Trans Americas Fiber System (TAFS) launched TAM-1, a neutral, open-access submarine cable system connecting the U.S. to Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbean with over 650 Tb/s capacity…

Insights List - Ciena

Insights List - Ciena

Network innovation insights from the experts | A look at the past, present, and future - Ciena

How open ecosystems will advance CPO adoption

Co-packaged optics (CPO) are forecasted to surpass pluggable optical modules in data center port shipments by 2031 due to AI-driven bandwidth demands. The shift addresses routing density and retimer c…

Solve for the invisible: Turning hidden optical risk into stronger network performance

Ciena introduced new 'analyze' capabilities in its Optimization Service to uncover hidden optical risks like fiber degradation, margin loss, and spectrum fragmentation. Features include predictive spa…

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Network acceleration: Accelerating networks for the AI era

25 years of reinvention: A conversation with Ciena CEO Gary Smith

Ciena CEO Gary Smith marks 25 years as CEO by emphasizing reinvention over tenure, highlighting the company’s shift from basic connectivity to optical infrastructure leadership. He underscores AI as t…

Advancing Segment Routing: New Use Cases, New Value

Real-World Progress and Emerging Use Cases in IP/Optical Convergence

Ciena’s Jan Straznicky discusses advances in Coherent Routing adoption and multi-layer operations, showcasing real-world use cases from access to long-haul networks. Additional videos explore AI’s rol…

Agentic Routing for AI Workloads

Ciena released a video series featuring Rafael Francis discussing real-world data center connectivity use cases enabled by Coherent Routing innovations for AI workloads. The content emphasizes AI’s ro…

AI-Ready Approaches to Data Center Connectivity

Dynamic Agentic AI Workflows for IP/Optical Operations

Ciena’s Reza Rokui introduces an agentic AI framework that coordinates specialized AI agents across planning, configuration, assurance, optimization, and automation to enhance network performance and …

AI Inside Service Provider Networks

Ciena released a series of videos exploring AI’s role in transforming service provider networks, including autonomous networking, agentic routing frameworks, and coherent routing use cases. The conten…