Ciena

Helen Xenos, Senior Director of Portfolio Marketing at Ciena, presents the company's innovations for GPU cluster interconnects including the Nitro linear retimer driver for active copper cables and the Vesta 200 6.4T CPX optical engine.

Helen Xenos, Senior Director of Portfolio Marketing at Ciena, presents the company's innovations for GPU cluster interconnects at OFC, including the Nitro linear retimer driver for active copper cables and the Vesta 200 6.4T CPX optical engine. These solutions provide flexible, power-efficient connectivity options to help customers build high-capacity networks for modern AI infrastructure.

Mark Bieberich, Vice President of Product Marketing at Ciena, discusses the company's scale-across architectures for geographically distributed AI training, featuring next-generation coherent optical pluggables, new WaveLogic 6 Nano performance modes, and a roadmap toward 1600 ZR and ZR+ technologies.

Rafael Francis, Senior Director of Product Line Management at Ciena, discusses how AI is changing networking as the market shifts from model training to inference, showcasing the company's routing portfolio for data center interconnection and coherent routing integration with optical capabilities. He also touches on automation and agentic AI.

Gina Nienaber, Senior Director of Products and Solutions at Ciena, outlines three central themes: network operations, IP Optical convergence, and transport technology migration to segment routing. She explains how Ciena focuses on AI-powered network management while supporting multi-vendor integration through interoperability testing.

Rafael Francis, Senior Director of Product Line Management at Ciena, outlines key findings, focusing on the shift from traditional MPLS to segment routing, IP optical integration, and AI applications. His analysis covers successful multivendor testing results and highlights Ciena's Navigator software and Blue Planet solutions for enhanced network operations and digital twin capabilities.

Helen Xenos, Senior Director, Portfolio Marketing at Ciena, presents the company's comprehensive AI infrastructure solutions at OCP, including their industry-first single carrier 1.6 terabit per second coherent solution and ultra-low power metro DCI with 400 gig coherent pluggables. She also discusses Ciena's recent acquisition of Nubis Communications, which enables linear redrivers for active copper cables and XT optical engines for co-packaged optics applications.

Jahanzeb Baqai, Senior Director of PLM at Ciena, shares survey results showcasing the growing trend favoring segment routing and SRv6, and the acceptance of uSID/compressed SID in deployments.

Jahanzeb Baqai, Senior Director PLM from Ciena, discusses: - The introduction of Ciena's new WaveRouter for converged optical solutions, which has received tremendous customer response - Importance of network slicing in maintaining end-to-end SLA guarantees

Rafael Francis, Senior Director of Product Line Management at Ciena, notes a shift in networking and security to cloud-based methodologies. Francis presents Ciena's updated Enterprise Edge portfolio, including Vyatta service edge, aimed at high-performance, agile, cost-effective, and secure cloud connectivity for enterprises.