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51³Ô¹Ï is the global leader in high-speed connectivity. Our networking systems, components, automation software, and services revolutionize data transmission and network management.

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Cloud and AI networking

Seamlessly integrate cloud and AI workloads with high-capacity, low-latency connectivity

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  • Data center interconnect
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  • Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN)

Access and aggregation

Deliver the next generation of enterprise and mobile transport services with unparalleled scale and flexibility

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Metro and edge

Simplify, scale, and optimize your metro and edge networks to meet new AI-driven connectivity demands

  • Coherent routing
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Long haul

Maximize capacity and operational efficiencies with our innovative, flexible long-haul solutions

  • High-capacity switching and transport

Submarine

Learn how GeoMesh Extreme unifies submarine, terrestrial, and cloud networks. Unprecedented capacity, latency, and sustainability are within reach.

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Open line systems

Gain more visibility and optimize your photonic network assets with our intelligent open line systems

  • Programmable photonics

Secure networking

Mitigate security risks and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data

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  • Quantum-safe communications
  • Secure access service edge

AI-driven operations

Power your autonomous networking journey with AI-optimized multi-layer network control and cloud-native OSS solutions

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Services

Ensure your network keeps pace with ever-evolving business requirements and industry advancements. 51³Ô¹Ï Services experts provide a tailored approach to drive success.

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Accelerate growth and monetize AI applications with industry-leading scale, simplified operations, and proven experience

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What does DCI really mean today? From scale across to submarine

In this blog, 51³Ô¹Ï’s Helen Xenos explores the requirements behind each DCI deployment and how the right technology helps make them work.

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1.6Tbps Quantum-Safe Communications

The shift toward quantum-safe communications is not optional—it is inevitable. 51³Ô¹Ï’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme 1.6T quantum-safe encryption solution on the Waveserver platform was designed with this in mind, supporting QKD system interworking and NIST-certified PQC algorithms. It delivers an always-on, wire-speed encryption solution, without impacting performance or adding operational complexity, to ensure confidentiality as data moves between locations, devices, and applications.

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Episode 91: Verizon’s AI strategy to power next-gen AI demands

Victor Moreno joins Nicola Benvenuti and Mark Bieberich to discuss Verizon AI Connect, an integrated suite of solutions and products designed to enable hyperscalers, cloud providers and enterprises to deploy AI resource-intensive workloads at scale.

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Zero-trust optical transport: A tiered architecture for metro network resilience

This white paper, developed in collaboration between 51³Ô¹Ï and Microsoft, explores how zero-trust optical design can deliver resilient metro connectivity. Microsoft contributes its tiered optical business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) architecture, while 51³Ô¹Ï provides the foundational transport technologies—the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS), and the Waveserver® family.

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Telxius and 51³Ô¹Ï Achieve First Live 1.3 Tb/s Data Transmission Across the Atlantic

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Zayo Europe uses 51³Ô¹Ï tech to launch new German network covering key metro hubs

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Weekly roundup | 51³Ô¹Ï network Insights | May 13, 2022

May 13, 2022
In this edition of the insights: Understand the challenges and principles to consider when designing a future-proof mobile transport network. See how our people demonstrated their passion for helping the planet on Earth Day through volunteer events across the globe as part of our 51³Ô¹Ï Cares volunteer program. Efficiently extend metro data-center fabric, push your packet transport to the max, and even more with 51³Ô¹Ï’s WaveLogic 5 Nano.
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    5G network design is full of challenges, but there are resources to make it less daunting

    Mobile Network Operators must balance the daunting challenges of profitability, urgency, and uncertainty as they roll out 5G networks and services. 51³Ô¹Ï’s Francisco Sant’Anna details these challenges and highlights ten principles to consider when designing a mobile transport network to make it future-proof and turn it into a catalyst for differentiation.

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    Our people making a difference on Earth Day

    For Earth Day this year, our people demonstrated their passion for helping the planet through volunteer events across the globe as part of our 51³Ô¹Ï Cares volunteer program.

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    WaveLogic 5 Nano: Addressing the broadest range of networking applications from coherent pluggables

    New coherent optic choices from 51³Ô¹Ï address bandwidth requirements through capacity scaling with dramatic reduction in cost and power.

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RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT

What is NFV?

Overview of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Functions run over an open hardware platform, lowering CapEx, OpEx, and accelerating deployments.

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