  Technology Trader   | SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2013  Winners and
Losers in the Coming Super-Network War  Ciena, Cisco, Oracle,
and F5 Networks could benefit as a battle looms between content
and distribution.  The 17% surge in shares of networking-
equipment firm Ciena (ticker: CIEN) last Thursday, following
better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter earnings, was no
doubt driven by some of the animal spirits lately boosting tech
stocks. But the surge was not entirely adrenaline-based.  The
network—the very "pipes" that carry the data, along with the
software directing it, whether on the global Internet or a small
corporate network—will play an increasingly pivotal role in
commerce and work and play, particularly as a dramatic new age
of content and services unfolds.  What this new age will require
is something we might call the Super Network. It will have to be
huge, of course, but it will also have to be built on software
technology that makes networks much more nimble, malleable, and
deployable in novel (and pro