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Gary Smith

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435 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

Yeah, absolutely. Now, you know, there are technology developments within the fiber, you know, for sure, you know, that help and assist that. And there's been a lot of that development from companies like Corning, you know, in the fiber world. But it's basically the magic is the technology that goes on the end of those fibers, because when you think about it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

Yeah, absolutely. Now, you know, there are technology developments within the fiber, you know, for sure, you know, that help and assist that. And there's been a lot of that development from companies like Corning, you know, in the fiber world. But it's basically the magic is the technology that goes on the end of those fibers, because when you think about it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

Yeah, absolutely. Now, you know, there are technology developments within the fiber, you know, for sure, you know, that help and assist that. And there's been a lot of that development from companies like Corning, you know, in the fiber world. But it's basically the magic is the technology that goes on the end of those fibers, because when you think about it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

If we had to scale, you know, by digging up the place every time we wanted to put more fibers in, then, you know, it's just not practicable. But, you know, even on old fibers, you know, we can get a tremendous amount of expansion and virtual capacity by just putting, you know, our technology on the end of it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

If we had to scale, you know, by digging up the place every time we wanted to put more fibers in, then, you know, it's just not practicable. But, you know, even on old fibers, you know, we can get a tremendous amount of expansion and virtual capacity by just putting, you know, our technology on the end of it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

If we had to scale, you know, by digging up the place every time we wanted to put more fibers in, then, you know, it's just not practicable. But, you know, even on old fibers, you know, we can get a tremendous amount of expansion and virtual capacity by just putting, you know, our technology on the end of it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

Yeah, it's our ability to continue to drive that. When we first started, we could multiplex, keep it very simple. It was a single piece of fiber. We thought we could put four virtual fibers down there. And that was revolutionary at the time. And many of the carriers we went to with that said, oh, that's fantastic. We'll never need more than that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

Yeah, it's our ability to continue to drive that. When we first started, we could multiplex, keep it very simple. It was a single piece of fiber. We thought we could put four virtual fibers down there. And that was revolutionary at the time. And many of the carriers we went to with that said, oh, that's fantastic. We'll never need more than that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

Yeah, it's our ability to continue to drive that. When we first started, we could multiplex, keep it very simple. It was a single piece of fiber. We thought we could put four virtual fibers down there. And that was revolutionary at the time. And many of the carriers we went to with that said, oh, that's fantastic. We'll never need more than that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

And then we figured out how to do eight, then 16, then 32, then 64. And then, you know, we're way, way beyond that now. So what that means is, you know, you have that single piece of fiber that looks like 64 fibers. And that's enabled this massive scaling of the architecture around the world.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

And then we figured out how to do eight, then 16, then 32, then 64. And then, you know, we're way, way beyond that now. So what that means is, you know, you have that single piece of fiber that looks like 64 fibers. And that's enabled this massive scaling of the architecture around the world.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

And then we figured out how to do eight, then 16, then 32, then 64. And then, you know, we're way, way beyond that now. So what that means is, you know, you have that single piece of fiber that looks like 64 fibers. And that's enabled this massive scaling of the architecture around the world.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

And then we deploy that technology nearly not just in the local connectivity, but in the long distance, you know, cross country, then across whole continents, you know, 8,000, 10,000 mile submarine cables. We can support that kind of capacity across the submarine cables.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

And then we deploy that technology nearly not just in the local connectivity, but in the long distance, you know, cross country, then across whole continents, you know, 8,000, 10,000 mile submarine cables. We can support that kind of capacity across the submarine cables.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

And then we deploy that technology nearly not just in the local connectivity, but in the long distance, you know, cross country, then across whole continents, you know, 8,000, 10,000 mile submarine cables. We can support that kind of capacity across the submarine cables.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

No, it's a very integrated partnership. You know, most of the major carriers, like 96% of the major carriers around the world are, you know, Sienna customers. So it's a collaboration that we've worked on for, you know, multiple decades. And we help manage the networks. We do a lot of the installation work for them. We do the planning.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

No, it's a very integrated partnership. You know, most of the major carriers, like 96% of the major carriers around the world are, you know, Sienna customers. So it's a collaboration that we've worked on for, you know, multiple decades. And we help manage the networks. We do a lot of the installation work for them. We do the planning.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

No, it's a very integrated partnership. You know, most of the major carriers, like 96% of the major carriers around the world are, you know, Sienna customers. So it's a collaboration that we've worked on for, you know, multiple decades. And we help manage the networks. We do a lot of the installation work for them. We do the planning.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

We have the technology, the software that actually manages the network as well and looks for predictive issues of challenges and switches automatically. If there are problems on certain fibers, it will detect that and switch it through. So there's a lot of underlying technology and collaboration between us and all the service providers.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith

We have the technology, the software that actually manages the network as well and looks for predictive issues of challenges and switches automatically. If there are problems on certain fibers, it will detect that and switch it through. So there's a lot of underlying technology and collaboration between us and all the service providers.