Last week, we announced our first round of winners in our 52 Weeks of Learning Challenge: 52 Weeks of Learning: Our Round One Winners & Starting Round Two . Please join us in congratulating Kendal, Chelsi and Chris on winning a one-year subscription to the Ciena Learning Develop Series.

With this announcement, we also kick off round two where three more members have a chance to win. Join the challenge by participating our most recent threads:

• I Love Acronyms: TFTP
• This Week I Learned: April 20th

Now, here is your overview of happenings around the community for last week. Please join us in welcoming new members, celebrating others on their one-year memberversary, and sharing your experiences on discussions and questions:

Hello and Welcome

Hello and welcome to our newest members! Welcome: Rashmi Aglawe, Angelo Albritton, aroonruck auntao, Facundo Carnero, Wes Caswell, Daniel Fidock, Richard Howe, satyander Kaur, Stephen Kiely, Jeff Kincannon, byron moore, Rick Op t Ende, Cameron Plato, Marty Pulley, balaji r, Jake Siegrist, Sajith Sulaiman,Chad Whitaker, Joe Annett, Steve Lewis, Mark Ogilvy, Jon Rave, and Joseph Riotta. 

We're glad you're here and look forward to hearing from you! What is your favorite engineering joke?

Popular and Noteworthy

Our most popular questions based on your views, and other noteworthy discussions, events, and more. 6500 - ORL (optical return loss) and lacpMuxSm are still two of our most viewed questions , but the following are: 

• Pin-out diagram for the db 25 craft cable
• CN4200 Password reset/recovery help
• where can get 11.1 version software for 6500 platform
• OME 6110 HDE Cross-conexion Numbers Limitation
• 4200 mibs
• How can we measure 100gbe power level with 4 lanes laser,we can see high power and low power in Site manager
• Command file keeps trying to upgrade software
• Trunk port Configuration
• Re: When configuring traffic profiling, what formula do you use to calculate PIR, CBS,and EBS?
• Exactly where can I find the MIC (Maintenance Interface Card) on the Ciena 6500 series?
• OME 6500
• Ethernet Packet Rate and Throughput Calculations

• Ciena Community ACE program overview
• Share Your Experiences: Questions That Need Answers (Apr 19th)
• Remote authentication access levels
• Maintenance Impact Analysis
• Build Your Technology Foundation
• Diving into the Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Seascape

Browse all recent activity. 

Of The Week

Memberversaries

Happy memberversary to the following members celebrating their first year in the Ciena Community:  Sam Abdin, chanchal ahuja, Berardo Bonaduce, vijaykumar chadachan, Sreenivasa Reddy Chinnannagari, Ashutosh Gupta, Amarnath Halesh, Darran Howkins, Jan Huijs, Darran Howkins, Shani Ibrahim, Rahul Jain, Jeremy Johns, Lee Kimmet, gueissaz marie-blanche, Chitresh Markanda, John Martino, VAMSHI NAMILIKONDA, PRAKASH R, U S Rao, Werner Schneider, shaden shorrosh, Heri Widjojo, and weiqing zhang. 

Quote

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

Isaac Asimov

Acronym

TFTP

Share what TFTP means in telecom and join the 52 Weeks of Learning Challenge at: I Love Acronyms: TFTP for a chance to win a one-year subscription to the Ciena Learning Develop Series – more than 75 courses on Packet-Optical, Packet and Software.   

Day

Today, Monday, April 23rd is World Book Day. So, I have to ask: What is your favorite book/author and what are you reading right now?  

Did You Know

The first video uploaded to YouTube was posted on April 23, 2005. The video, "Me at the Zoo," was uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim at 8:27 PM. A few stats on the usage of YouTube today: 1.3 billion people use YouTube, 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, YouTube gets over 30 million visitors per day, and 3.25 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube each month.    

Have a great week and keep networking! 

Congratulations on making it through your first week of April! It sounds like some of you were completing a little spring cleaning on your networks, while others were reminded the importance of documenting steps. What did you learn last week? Pass it along and share it with the community at: This Week I Learned: April 6th

Last week, we also introduced a new Service Ideas forum to the community, and our first idea theme, Spreadsheet Killer. Check out our first ideas to vote and then, share how we can help you automate and streamline work you do in spreadsheets with tools, applications, and analytics. (Note: this is a private forum for Ciena customers, partners, and employees with a Service Portal account. Message me if you have a question about access.)

Now, here is your overview of happenings around the community for last week. Please join us in welcoming new members, celebrating others on their one-year memberversary, and sharing your experiences on discussions and questions:

Hello and Welcome

Hello and welcome to our newest members! Welcome: Kanchan Agarwal, Hazem Alnunu, Robert Batt, John Borden, Jim Brown, Wagner Cabral, Wai Ching Chan, Hongkeun Choi, Tomas Clare, Nicholas Davies, Harry Felder II, Dominick Hernandez, Michael Herring, Bernard Kelly, Dane Miller, Rasil Nigmatullin, Himanshu Patel, jy ryu, Balam Saenz, abdoul samb, Navin Singh, Fred Swann, Marcin Tomal, Abraham Wahyu Kurniawan, Kevin Zeng, and Pavol Zold. 

We're glad you're here and look forward to hearing from you! What is your favorite engineering joke?

Popular and Noteworthy

Our most popular questions based on your views, and other noteworthy discussions, events, and more. 6500 - ORL (optical return loss) and lacpMuxSm are still two of our most viewed questions, but following are: 

• Name of Ciena Equipments
• Question about EBook
• Trunk port Configuration
• Re: After firmware Upgrade, 10G optic not unrecognized?
• Exactly where can I find the MIC (Maintenance Interface Card) on the Ciena 6500 series?
• Command file keeps trying to upgrade software
• How can we measure 100gbe power level with 4 lanes laser,we can see high power and low power in Site manager
• How do I get NCP communications up on a CoreStream?
• The Way to manage the 3930 Swtich
• Reset 3930 to factory setting through the CLI
• Share Your Experiences: Questions That Need Answers (Apr 5th)
• Harness the Power of Automation through Intent-Based Policy
• MPLS-TP: Thoughts? Gotchas?
• What Ciena products do you use?

Browse all open and answered questions. 

Of The Week

Memberversaries

Happy memberversary to the following members celebrating their first year in the Ciena Community:  Manish Aggarwal, Sivarajah Balasubramaniam, Jacob Barnard. Subhash Chopra, Tim DeNike, VIJAY GUPTA, Tatsuyuki Ikegami, Windy Morgan, Rick Poston, Johannes Rüschel, Randy Roberts, Siafa Sherman, Dimitri Shivkov, Jeff wilde, and Venkata Yenigalla. 

Quote

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia

Acronym

BFD

Share what BFD means in telecom and join the 52 Weeks of Learning Challenge at: I Love Acronyms: BFD. 

Day

Today, Monday, April 9th is National Name Yourself Day. If you've ever thought you should have another name or wondered what it would be like to have different name, today is your day. Or, if you like your name, but have a nickname you'd like to try out for a day, go for it. What name/nickname did you choose and why?

Did You Know

Did you know that personality traits can predict musical preferences? Jason Rentfrow of Cambridge University and Gideon Nave of the University of Pennsylvania recruited 22,252 participants online around the world to determine if personality does predict musical preference. Participants were presented with 25 excerpts of music that had not been publicly released and asked each to complete a standard personality test that rates five main components of personality: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.  Their study showed that openness tends to be associated with an appreciation for sophisticated music, while extroverts tended to show a preference for unpretentious music. Do you think your personality traits align with your musical preferences?

Have a great week and keep networking! 

Last week, I was off Thursday and Friday, so I missed posting our weekly Share Your Experience post . So, I'm going to quickly share current open questions in the community. If you have experiences or knowledge to pass along, please join the thread:  

• Ingress Egress Rate Limiting per vlan
• CN4200 Password reset/recovery help
• setting up snmp v3 on 3932 and setup traps to ESM
• MD5 secret vissible on 6500

I did, however, get our weekly This Week I Learned up on Friday and I'm looking forward to hearing what you learned last week. We have a few members already sharing their lessons with the community, join them at This Week I Learned: Mar 23rd. 

Now, here is your overview of happenings around the community for last week. Please join us in welcoming new members, celebrating others on their one-year memberversary, and sharing your experiences on discussions and questions:

Hello and Welcome

Hello and welcome to our newest members! Welcome: Christopher Adam, Jeremy Batten, Tom Claydon, Sagarika Das, Nick DiLiegro, David Edelson, C G, John Paul Golick, Daniel Hernandez, Karla Herrera Garcia, 진범 황, Nicholas Laughton, Swagat Sourav Majhee, Leandro Milocco, lance newman, Manikanta Pesala, Nicolas Pulido, Ahmed Rajab, Juan Ramirez, Lem Saligan, Douglas Shapter, DOUGLAS SHATTERLY Jr., AUDUMBAR SONAWANE, Anuradha Talwar, Leeroy J. Thranduil, Andrey Tuev, Alex Turovets, Zachary Worley, and Panayiotis Zepos. 

We're glad you're here and look forward to hearing from you! What is your favorite engineering joke?

Popular and Noteworthy

Our most popular questions based on your views, and other noteworthy discussions, events, and more:

• Ethernet Packet Rate and Throughput Calculations
• 6500 - ORL (optical return loss)
• lacpMuxSm
• RFC2544 Test - Static Reflector
• How can we measure 100gbe power level with 4 lanes laser,we can see high power and low power in Site manager
• Does Ciena have the facility to provide the course OC-A in different location than the UK and USA ?
• Exactly where can I find the MIC (Maintenance Interface Card) on the Ciena 6500 series?
• Network Diagramming
• Command file keeps trying to upgrade software
• When configuring traffic profiling, what formula do you use to calculate PIR, CBS,and EBS?
• This Week I Learned: Mar 23rd

Browse all open and answered questions. 

Of The Week

Memberversaries

Happy memberversary to the following members celebrating their first year in the Ciena Community:  Josh Boecker, Andrew Carey, Jose Luis Chamorro Rubio, Eamon Donovan, Wilko Eschebach, serge Girardin, Kendal Ingraham, IMRAN KHAN, Jacob Longanecker, Sam Marcynuk, Sang Joon PARK, Simon-Pierre Pelletier, Oscar Portillo, Justin Ream, Sean Reedy, Reginaldo Silva, Andrew Thompson, and Carlton Wallen. 

Quote

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

H.E. Luccock 

Acronym

AIS

Share what AIS means in telecom and join the 52 Weeks of Learning Challenge at: I Love Acronyms: AIS. We have some pretty awesome responses on this I Love Acronyms, I definitely recommend checking it out.  

Day

This Wednesday, March 28th is National Something on a Stick Day because you know, foods that come on a stick are just great. Celebrate by getting inventive and create your own combination. I must admit that this makes me think of fair food – there are just so many options there. What is your favorite food on a stick? 

Did You Know

On March 21, 2006, the first tweet was sent and there is no turning back now. Since then, 330 million monthly active users on Twitter, more than 40 languages are supported, more than two billion search queries a day are served, and 74% of users use it to get their news. (source) 

Have a great week and keep networking! 

Hope everyone is adjusting to the clocks moving ahead one hour. We have a few open questions in the community for others to help and share their experiences and expertise:  

• From Elavarasan: VLAN is reserved for virtual-switch/B-VID
• From Jeff: RFC2544 Test - Static Reflector
• From Albert: Does a 3903 provide signal and framing when connected to ethernet port with test meter?
• From Tuan: OneControl and ESM issue

Here is your overview of happenings around the community for last week. Please join us in welcoming new members, celebrating others on their one-year memberversary, and sharing your experiences on discussions and questions:

Hello and Welcome

Hello and welcome to our newest members! Welcome: Albert Bayona, Dee Beavers, Frank Bulk, Anthony Daskalieros, Carlos David, James Faraci, ALFREDO GOMEZ, Michael Hoop, Manuel Pablo Lorenzo, Satyajit Mandal, Kate Marchant, Tim Masse, Colin Meakin, Shabnas P K, Kyle Paniucki, Eric Peake, thomas robak, and Yashael Urena. 

We're glad you're here and look forward to hearing from you! What is your favorite engineering joke?

Popular and Noteworthy

Our most popular questions based on your views, and other noteworthy discussions, events, and more:

• 6500 - ORL (optical return loss)
• lacpMuxSm
• This is a question concerning Trap Events generated via 'port disable/port enable' on port 3/1 of a 4-port LAG on a CN5150.
• What is difference between ODUk SPRing protection and SNCP
• Getting errors on client side of the transponder, once resetting the line side card it is getting cleared.
• Exactly where can I find the MIC (Maintenance Interface Card) on the Ciena 6500 series?
• Waveserver AI user guide
• I Love Acronyms: HQoS
• This Week I Learned: Feb 9th
• What kind of information, events, or activities would you like to participate in on the community?
• What content format do you prefer to consume product information?

Browse all open and answered questions. 

Of The Week

Memberversaries

Happy memberversary to the following members celebrating their first year in the Ciena Community: Abhimanyu Alavalapati, RAFAT AMMAR, David Anderson, Jahanzeb Ashraf, George Babu, David Belinski, Santosh Bheemarajaiah, Steve Cannella, Jean-Baptiste Ciccolella, Jorge Cruz Morales, Geert de Groot, Sylvain Desbureaux, Виктор Каток, Julie Eggers, Sven Freudenfeld, Shivam Garg, Virginia Gonzalez, erasmo guedes, Ricky Hatcher, Vasileios Iliadis, Jan Jacobs, A. Kara, Alexander Lindholm, carlos lopez dorado, Leandro Elias Milocco, Shyama Moorthy, Ritesh Nagrale, Vijay NG, Bryan Nightingale, Constantin Nita, Anderson Oliveira, Lucy Paiva, Ansley Penaranda, kent Poulson, Kevin Rengifo Sandoval, Ernesto Rodriguez Guerrero, Fernando Sánchez, Kazushige Saito, Christian Soria, Jack Spurlock, Brent Whiteley, baptiste xaxa, Peh Yen Shin, Nancy Younan, and Evgeny Zykov. 

Quote

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.

G.K. Chesterton 

Acronym

HQoS

Share what HQoS means in telecom and join the 52 Weeks of Learning Challenge at: I Love Acronyms: HQoS. 

Day

Today, March 12, 2018, is understandably, a day for celebrating naps and known as, National Napping Day. Observed annually the day after we return to daylight savings time. National Napping Day provides a day for everyone with the opportunity, or maybe not, to take a nap and catch up on the lost hour of sleep due to the spring forward time change. Did you get your nap in today?  

Did You Know

On March 12, 2008, the video streaming service, Hulu, is launched. The name Hulu was selected in late August 2007, when the website went live with only an announcement, no content. The website invited users to sign up for a private beta test in October, but later beta testers could invite friends. In 2017, Hulu viewers watched more than 12,000 years of South Park and living room devices were the most popular way to of streaming TV content. (source) 

Have a great week and keep networking! 

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend and are ready for a new week! Today, we have our second in a series of polls to share results of a recent survey and invite you to add your input too. Join our two polls at - we're working on expanding our content plan to bring in more product and service information, so your feedback will help us deliver what will resonate with you:

1. What type of product information is most helpful to you in your work?
2. What content format do you prefer to consume product information?

And, don't forget to check out our 52 Weeks of Learning Challenge for a chance to win a one-year subscription to the Ciena Learning Develop Series. 

Here is your overview of happenings around the community for last week. Please join us in welcoming new members, celebrating others on their one-year memberversary, and sharing your experiences on discussions and questions:

Hello and Welcome

Hello and welcome to our newest members! Welcome: Abraham Alhelfi, Mosaab Ben Maad, Ronrico Cook, John Fiedler, G G, Keith Galloway, Kile Griffith, Paul Hansen, Tomohiro Hyodo, Shinta Ikejima, Ramesh Jadcherla, Mellissa Landrum, Andrew Larmour, Ben Nicholls, Rahul Pathak, Chris Peyatt, Samuel Roodman, Marco Schalkx, and Paul Woosnam. 

We're glad you're here and look forward to hearing from you! What is your favorite engineering joke?

Popular and Noteworthy

Our most popular questions based on your views, and other noteworthy discussions, events, and more:

• 6500 - ORL (optical return loss)
• lacpMuxSm
• What is difference between ODUk SPRing protection and SNCP
• what is photonic layer in dwdm. Why people are talking about photonic layer
• Interoperability Testing
• When configuring traffic profiling, what formula do you use to calculate PIR, CBS,and EBS?
• After firmware Upgrade, 10G optic not unrecognized?
• This Week I Learned: Feb 23rd
• I Love Acronyms: CVS
• What Ciena products do you use?

Browse all open and answered questions. 

Of The Week

Memberversaries

Happy memberversary to the following members celebrating their first year in the Ciena Community: surya kiran bandi, Donald Beckermann, Gene Brown, Anchal Chopra, Ренат Эксанов, sean frasier, Zaki Hanna, Mahmoud Ibrahim, David Jaya, Brian Johnson, abhishek kumar, Darron Legnon, Tom Locke, manjunath m j, Aarthi Ramesh, Karlo Tisaj, and Michael Webb. 

Quote

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Margaret Fuller

Acronym

CVS

Share what CVS means in telecom and join the 52 Weeks of Learning Challenge at: I Love Acronyms: CVS. 

Day

Saturday, March 3rd is National I Want You to be Happy Day. Observed annually on March 3rd, the day was created as a day to encourage ourselves to do something that makes others happy. Since it falls on a Saturday, a few ideas include crossing an item off of the honey do list, calling a friend or family member to say hello, or planning a fun event (such as a lunch or hike) for the family and surprise them with it. The goal is to put a smile on someone else's face. What can you do? 

Did You Know

On February 24, 1962, the first satellite telephone and television relays are established through the communications satellite Echo 1. Launched into space on August 12, 1960, it wasn't until this day, February 24, 1962, that the United States government began its first telephone and television transmission via Echo 1. 

Have a great week and keep networking! 

Happy Monday!! How was your weekend? Here is an overview of happenings around the community for last week. Please join us in welcoming new members, celebrating others on their one-year memberversary, and sharing your experiences on discussions and questions:

• Interoperability Testing
• MPLS-TP: Thoughts? Gotchas?
• This Week I Learned: Feb 9th

Hello and Welcome

Hello and welcome to our newest members! Welcome: Cody Adams, Sunit Biswas, Mark Bosnjak, Jacob Cooper, Jackjahocke Hocker, Glenn Johnson, ANDREW MILLER, Ashish Mishra, sujai mutharasu, Andrew Peters, Jagalal Deepa Priyadarshini, Jeff Reckers, Tony Ross, Jeffery Shuryan, Bill Sreca, Paul Thomas, and Craig Yarbrough. 

We're glad you're here and look forward to hearing from you! What is your favorite engineering joke?

Popular and Noteworthy

Our most popular questions based on your views, and other noteworthy discussions, events, and more:

• 6500 - ORL (optical return loss)
• lacpMuxSm
• This is a question concerning Trap Events generated via 'port disable/port enable' on port 3/1 of a 4-port LAG on a CN5150.
• how can make reset factory settings 6110 edge after forget password
• Adva fsp 3000 5TCE module equivalent module available in ciena 6500 ?
• what is photonic layer in dwdm. Why people are talking about photonic layer
• What is difference between ODUk SPRing protection and SNCP
• I Love Acronyms: SLM
• What Ciena products do you use?
• 52 Weeks of Learning Challenge: 2018
• Build Your Technology Foundation

Browse all open and answered questions. 

Of The Week

Memberversaries

Happy memberversary to the following members celebrating their first year in the Ciena Community: Saran Aroongarn, Terry Bainter, Russ Bartels, Steven Brenchley, Christian DESTRE, Guy Harclerode, Angel Hill, Simon Ho, daecheol kang, Nan Kesavan, Vladimir Kiesner, Chris O'Rourke, Oleg Paikin, Oscar Luis Peral, Fnu Rinchen, Attila Sajtos, Nuttapong Sontikoon, Janagaraj Soundararajan, and Kiran Vasudeva. 

Quote

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

Henry Petroski

Acronym

SLM

Share what SLM means in telecom and join the 52 Weeks of Learning Challenge at: I Love Acronyms: SLM.

Day

Observed annually on the second Monday in February, National Clean Out Your Computer Day is a day to reserve time and take much needed care to our computers. Our computer may be slower due to unused files and programs that impact memory and create confusion.  In observation of this day, block time this week to: organize your files and folders, delete junk files, delete duplicate files, and delete old files and programs not being used. Should I have all my files on my desktop?  

Did You Know

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press around 1440, but it wasn't until 1960 that the modern paper jam was invented. In the years between, jamming wasn't possible because one sheet was printed at a time. However, in 1959, the Xerox 914 was introduced and automated the process xerography process and today, a "paper page is like a Tough Mudder" (source). While, understanding and solving a paper jam requires knowledge of physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, computer programming, and interface design. Learn more about paper jams and why we still experience them today. I think I may be a little more patient with my printer the next time I encounter one.  

Have a great week and keep networking! 

Hello Ciena Community, here is an overview of happenings around the community for last week. Please join us in welcoming our new members and celebrating others on their one year memberversary. 

Are you using MPLS-TP in production or are you testing it in a lab? Share your experiences, thoughts and gotchas in our new featured discussion from Chelsi: MPLS-TP: Thoughts? Gotchas?

Hello and Welcome

Hello and welcome to our newest members! Welcome: Peter Abogi, Gary Aiken, Charles Benon, Tom Dastrup, Sanjeewa De Silva, Sheryl Duffy, Brian Earnst, Chris Ferris, elavarasan g, Chellaprabu J, Randall Jones, Daniel Kerschbaum, Sergii Korolov, Jeff Lockhart, randy marshall, Ronald Martin, Augustine Naidu, William Osborne, Gladson P, Artem Paskhin, Akshaya Rajagopalan, Nirina Ranaivoson, Will Riha, David Sotnick, and Tianwu Tan. 

We're glad you're here and look forward to hearing from you! What Ciena products do you use?

Popular and Noteworthy

Our most popular questions based on your views, and other noteworthy discussions, events, and more:

• 6500 - ORL (optical return loss)
• lacpMuxSm
• Are any Ciena products affected by Spectre / Meltdown?
• VR recovering and not going to OK status
• The Way to manage the 3930 Swtich
• 3930 Vlan configuration guide
• Traffic Profiling question
• MPLS-TP: Thoughts? Gotchas? 
• Hello, I use Terra Term to login to the Ciena 3930. I would like to know is there a way to write a... 
• what is photonic layer in dwdm. Why people are talking about photonic layer 
• Brocade 6520s working across Ciena 6500s 

Browse all open and answered questions. 

Of The Week

Memberversaries

Happy memberversary to the following members celebrating their first year in the Ciena Community: Felipe B, david barnard, 岳志 細谷, Romain CAJINA, Cassio Garcia, Abner Jimenez, Sandeep Kumar, Blair Lightfoot, Gonzalo Lujan, Taimur Malik, Jeff Martin, Randy McInnis, patric mcneff, Michael Ng, Diju Pavithran, Garry Peirce, Josue Rodriguez, Terry Sanderson, Lee Sharping, Sergey Studenikin, François THOMAS, John Trevino, Hiroyuki Tsushima, and Jim Wilson

Quote

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

Ryunosuke Satoro

Acronym

February is next week , so you know what that means... I Love Acronyms is returning!! Stay tuned for our first acronym and don't forget to follow I Love Acronyms to receive an alert when it is posted. 

Day

Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 is National Plan for Vacation Day. Falling on the last Tuesday in January, it is a day to remind us to plan our vacation at the start of the year for the rest of the year. In 2016, Americans collectively sacrificed 662 million vacations days according to the U.S. Travel Association’s Project Time Off. In 2016, unused vacation days cost the U.S. economy $236 billion because of lost spending, while employees that forfeit vacation time are lower performers as they’re less likely to get promoted or receive a raise or bonus. Even if it isn't Tuesday, this week is the time to begin determining how much time off you earn, coordinating calendars, and sharing your plans with colleagues and family for how you'll be using your vacation days. Where are you planning to go on vacation this year?

Did You Know

Calling all Tetris fans! On January 29, 1988, the computer game Tetris made its first appearance in the United States. Described as simple and addictive, Tetris was first available as a PC game distributed by Spectrum Holobyte. The launch of the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989 established Tetris as one of the most popular games ever. 

Have a great week and keep networking! 

2017 already starts off as a pretty impressive year as we celebrated the first year of the community in May, but here is a sample of some of the other amazing accomplishments by numbers. We also have a summary of your most popular forums and threads and a shout out to members that stood out in helping support the community.

It's great to have you all here, thank you being a member. I look forward to getting to know you all a little bit better and hearing from you more, or maybe even for the first time.  

Accomplishments

A look back at the year by the numbers for the community overall and then by ask, share, connect and develop.  

Overall

• 1,200 new members
• 700,000 views of forums and content
• 1,200 pieces of content created

Ask

• 250 new questions asked
• 600 responses posted to questions marked at helpful or correct to identify a solution
• 140,000 views of questions with a solution 

Share

• 2,200 comments posted on questions, documents, and more to share knowledge and expertise
• 2,000 likes to content

Connect

• 800 connections made between members through follow
• 16 introductions... it's never too late to say hello and introduce yourself
• 450 one year memberversaries celebrated 
• 16 telecom acronyms in our I Love Acronyms challenge

Develop

Blue Planet DevOps Exchange (learn how to join) by the numbers: 

• 2,000 members 
• 113 develop resources published
• 300 Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit and Evaluation Edition downloads 
• 27 RAs published
• 95 questions asked 

Popular 

A breakdown of the most popular forums of the year by your views and follows. 

Top forums by views

1. Packet Networking
2. 6500
3. Optical Transport
4. Z-Series
5. Network Management

View all community forums and topics. 

Top forums by follows

1. 6500
2. Packet Networking
3. Optical Transport
4. Blue Planet DevOps Exchange (learn how to join)
5. Z-Series 

Find your forum and follow it.  

Now, your most popular threads throughout the community by views, comments and likes. 

Most popular threads by views

1. When configuring traffic profiling, what formula do you use to calculate PIR, CBS,and EBS?
2. 3930 Vlan configuration guide
3. This is a question concerning Trap Events generated via 'port disable/port enable' on port 3/1 of a 4-port LAG on a CN5150.

Most popular threads by comments

1. Trunk port Configuration
2. Pass IP address of OME6500 to Site Manager (Windows)
3. G.8032 failed to reroute

Most popular threads by likes

1. G.8032 failed to reroute
2. After firmware Upgrade, 10G optic not unrecognized?
3. Trunk port Configuration

Recognition

My favorite part of the community now, you, our members! Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone that has helped support the community whether it has been by asking a question, sharing a tip, or helping answer a question. Here we're recognizing all of the members that helped answer a question in 2017, thank you... 

Frederick Valcho, Chelsi Doyle, Phil Meyerson, Edward Weltin, Vladimir Kiesner, Andrew Duffy, Rüdiger Michl, Juri Pfeifer, Austin Carr, Tony Ross, Robert Jacobs, Chris O'Rourke, Darran Howkins, Vladimir Vedeneev, Ben Warfield, klaus Samardzic, Bill McFetridge, Rafael Molina, Bradley Matteson, Jeremy Johnson, Jeff wilde, Simon Andrews, vincent knott, Mike Keim, Kazi Tanvir Ahamed, Jorge Aquino, John Boyce, Rich Ortiz, Jade Litcher, Kendal Ingraham, Cyril Avila, john schroeder, Michael Pauken, Garry Peirce, and ABDUL RAVOOF. 

It's been awesome working with all of you!! 

We welcome you to reflect on your year too by sharing your proudest moments of 2017, and look ahead to the new year and share your goals for 2018.