Returning to Ciena’s Vectors event after a 4-year COVID hiatus was a pleasure. Vectors is a unique opportunity for customers to visit the company’s labs and see prototypes and pre-production hardware demonstrations – there’s nothing else like it. Customers like it because it is engineering rather than marketing-forward and puts them in the same room as those responsible for making things work. The event does absorb considerable executive and engineering time, and the 16-day duration was more abbreviated than in years past. We had the opportunity to take the same ride and attended sessions focused on WaveRouter, WaveLogic 6, as well as line system hardware and software.

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