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

US

Primary Segment

Enterprise and telecoms software

Ownership

Publicly Owned

Deployments

58

News Summary:

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

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