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Protecting Research and Education Networks from DDoS attack
The seriousness of DDoS attacks for REN’s requires stronger medicine than strong passwords, multi-factor authentication, and patching firewalls.

You can’t change the laws of physics, but can you negotiate with them?
Flexible scale with extreme simplicity: Nokia’s innovative, holistic approach to network solutions focusing on real customer needs.

Building automated closed-loop operations in your optical network
Building automated closed-loop operations is key to automating optical networks.

Key ingredients for automating optical networks
Topology discovery and export, and service provisioning are key ingredients for automating optical networks.

The essential elements of open optical networking
Learn how the right solution can help any network operator unlock new value with open optical networking.

Should you automate your optical network?
Automating your optical network: benefits, challenges and foundational automation elements.

What’s changed in subsea cable communications after 130 years?
Fiber optics advances in subsea cable and submarine line termination equipment (SLTE) design

Scaling IP-optical transport with Coherent Routing
Coherent Routing is a new approach for building application-optimized IP-optical networks using pluggable digital coherent optics.

COVID-19, the Metaverse: What’s next for telecom operators
How to build systems and networks for a sustainable, secure, and scalable Iinternet.

A welcome return to OFC
Join us at OFC for demos, forums, talks and more on how our optical solutions can help you meet new demands with simpler, more scalable networks.

Is your data safe from harvest and decrypt?
Quantum computers will have devastating implications for cryptography. Symmetric algorithms offer robust protection today.

Closing the gap to the Shannon Limit in real-world networks
Learn how Nokia PSE-V coherent optics optimize capacity–reach and ease network upgrades for challenging real-world applications.