Entries in Ciena (55)
Q&A: Ciena’s CTO on R&D
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 2:43PM Gazettabyte spoke with Steve Alexander, CTO of Ciena, about optical technology and R&D. In Part 1 of the Q&A, Alexander shares his thoughts about the practice and challenges of R&D.
Part 1: R&D
"The R&D model has shifted a lot. Time has marched on and there are newer ways of doing things"
Steve Alexander, Ciena CTO
LightReading Market Spotlight: ROADMs
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 9:22PM 
Click here for the market spotlight ROADM article written for LightReading. See also the comment discussions.
3D MEMS, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Huawei, LightReading, ROADMs, Tellabs, WSS in Blog Print Article AT&T domain suppliers
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 4:43PM |
Date |
Domain |
Partners |
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Sept 2009 |
Wireline Access |
Ericsson |
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Feb 2010 |
Radio Access Network |
Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson |
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April 2010 |
Optical and transport equipment |
Ciena |
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July 2010 |
IP/MPLS/Ethernet/Evolved Packet Core |
Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper, Cisco |
The table shows the selected players in AT&T's domain supplier programme announced to date.
AT&T has stated that there will likely be eight domain supplier categories overall so four more have still to be detailed.
Looking at the list, several thoughts arise:
Still some way to go
Friday, July 9, 2010 at 9:50AM Briefing: Dynamic optical networking
Part 1: The vision .... back in 2000
I came across this article (below) on the intelligent all-optical network. I wrote it in 2000 while working at the EMAP magazine, Communications Week International, later to become Total Telecom.
What is striking is just how much of the vision of a dynamic photonic layer is still to be realised. Back then it had also been discussed for over a decade. And bandwidth management, like in 2000, is still largely at the electrical layer.
And yet much progress has been made in networking technology. But the way the network has evolved means that a more flexible photonic layer, while wanted by operators, is only one aspect of the network optimisation they seek to reduce the cost of transporting bits.
Ciena post-MEN
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 2:59PM Ciena has been busy since completing the acquisition of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business back in March.
“The 40G and 100G technology were key to the deal and we made sure that the core team was still there”
Tom Mock, Ciena
