Ciena brings Web Scale Networking to OFC 2015

Apr 10th, 2015
Mike Adams, Ciena's VP of product and technology marketing, describes for Lightwave Publisher Tim Hermes the philosophy behind Web Scale Networking and how the company plans to support it. Mike also describes Ciena's new Coherent Select architecture.
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