Ciena

http://www.ciena.com
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Ciena Corporation, a publicly owned company founded in 1992 and headquartered in the US, employs approximately 9080 people. Its primary business involves the design, manufacture, and sale of network hardware, software, and services. These offerings support the transmission, switching, aggregation, and management of various types of communication traffic (video, data, and voice) across communications networks, with a focus on broadband aggregation and home networks. In 2024, the company reported revenues exceeding $1 billion.

2024 Revenue

Founded

1992

Headcount

9,078

Headquarters

Primary Segment

Enterprise and telecoms software

Ownership

Publicly Owned

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A March 2025 Heavy Reading survey of 241 communications service providers indicated strong interest in coherent routing and 800G adoption, with most planning to deploy coherent pluggables in routers and DWDM systems, favoring routers. In a separate development, Ciena, with partner Willcom, achieved a significant increase in fiber capacity in South Africa, exceeding previous trial performance by more than four times. Additionally, Ciena optical equipment supports Segra's construction of a new fiber route in the Carolinas, connecting Charlotte, North Carolina, to the Myrtle Beach Cable Landing Station via Florence, South Carolina.

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Ciena offers 8 products in the telecoms tech and media tech industries. Ciena's product portfolio comprises of telecoms network infrastructure, enterprise and telecoms software, fibre access and connectivity and distribution services.

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Ciena's revenues were $4.0B in 2024. Caretta Research has split Ciena's revenue into 5 different product categories, the largest of which is oNTs, which represents 35% of Ciena's revenue.

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Nov

14th

2025

17:30

Emerging Tech, CT_Monitor Company

Since 1987 – Covering the Fastest Computers in the World and the People Who Run Them

Demonstrates highest 800G pluggable performance with WaveLogic 6 Nano HANOVER, Md., Nov. 14, 2025 — Ciena’s optical and routing and switching innovations will once again support the SCinet network at SC25, taking place November 16–21 at the America’s Center Convention Complex in St. Louis.

HPCwire

Nov

14th

2025

13:45

Emerging Tech, CT_Monitor Company

Ciena returns for 2025 SC Conference

Ciena will provide optical equipment to power high-speed networking via the SCinet research network, to coincide with this year's SC Conference supercomputing event in St Louis.

Telecompaper

Nov

14th

2025

07:54

Emerging Tech

MicroClimate Management System

Podcast Episode 87: How Meta Reimagined OOB Management in the Data Center On this episode, Mike “MJ” Joseph, who manages the infrastructure network engineering team at Meta, joins Ciena’s Mark Bieberich to discuss innovation in out-of-band (OOB) management networks, which are essential for initial device commissioning, disaster recovery, remote troubleshooting, and secure lifecycle management.

Ciena

Nov

13th

2025

20:37

Heavy Reading: Coherent Pluggable Optics Service Provider Survey 2025

Ciena

Nov

12th

2025

18:30

CT_Monitor Company

Fidium serves up 400G waves for Texas’ DASH region’s data centers and enterprises

Fidium is deploying Ciena’s 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS) and WaveLogic coherent optics (Wavelogic 5 Extreme 800G transceivers and WaveLogic 5 Nano 400G pluggables) to deliver up to 800Gbps per wavelength over both C- and L- L-bands today, with the ability to scale to 1.6 Tbps per wavelength with WaveLogic 6 Extreme when needed.

Lightwave Online

Nov

11th

2025

21:37

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WaveLogic 6 Extreme 2 x 1.6T 8 x QSFP-DD/ QSFP-DD800 Module

The WaveLogic™ 6 Extreme (WL6e) 2 x 1.6T 8 x QSFP-DD/QSFP-DD800 Module introduces the industry’s first 1.6 Tb/s coherent technology to the Waveserver® platform, enabling unmatched performance and spectral efficiency. Delivering up to 12.8 Tb/s in a compact 2 RU chassis, the module supports 100/400/800GbE and OTU4 client interfaces for metro, regional, long-haul, and submarine applications.

Ciena

Nov

11th

2025

19:45

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Optimization Service

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Nov

11th

2025

18:30

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The Datacenter Liquid Cooling Market Heats Up

As AI spawns bigger and denser datacenters, concerns over cooling GPUs and other infrastructure are taking the spotlight, with liquid cooling a logical next step. It’s easy to see why: Power consumption per rack is growing exponentially, and computer room air conditioning (CRAC) consumes too much power to keep up.

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Nov

11th

2025

18:30

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Ciena

Nov

11th

2025

18:30

CT_Monitor Company

Ciena Insider Sold Shares Worth $1,424,274, According to a Recent SEC Filing

Gary B Smith, Director, President, CEO, on November 10, 2025, sold 6,800 shares in Ciena for $1,424,274. Following the Form 4 filing with the SEC, Smith has control over a total of 261,670 common...

MarketScreener

Nov

10th

2025

20:46

Assessing Ciena’s Value Amidst 150% 2025 Rally and New Tech Partnerships

Ciena scores just 1/6 on our valuation checks. See what other red flags we found in the full valuation breakdown . The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model estimates a company’s intrinsic value by projecting its future cash flows and bringing them back to today’s dollars using a discount rate.

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Nov

10th

2025

20:46

Assessing Ciena’s Value Amidst 150% 2025 Rally and New Tech Partnerships

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Ciena's customers primarily consist of telecoms and telecoms services companies. Examples of Ciena's customers include Telefónica, BT Group and Vodafone. Ciena has commercial and technical partners like Telus, Comcast Corporation and Samsung Device eXperience.

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