Ciena

http://www.ciena.com
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Ciena, also known as Ciena Corporation, is a publicly owned company headquartered in the US. Founded in 1992, with approximately 9080 employees, the company reported $4.8B in revenue as of 2025 and functions as a tier 1 media tech buyer. Specializing in fibre access, Ciena provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks.

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1992

Headcount

9,078

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Fibre access

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Publicly Owned

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Ciena reported its first-quarter 2026 earnings on March 15, 2026, with an earnings per share (EPS) of $1.35, surpassing the estimate of $1.05 by 28.57%, reinforcing its position as an investment in AI infrastructure buildout. Previously, on March 14, Ciena unveiled new innovations to address surging AI-driven bandwidth demands. These solutions, which include recently acquired co-packaged/near-packaged optics and electrical redriver technologies from Nubis Communications, aim to increase network capacity and density to support growing AI workloads. This followed the company's March 10 announcement of several networking innovations designed to meet the increasing bandwidth requirements of AI workloads.

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Ciena offers 9 products in the telecoms tech and media tech industries. Ciena's product portfolio comprises of telecoms network infrastructure, connectivity and distribution services, enterprise and telecoms software and fibre access.

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Ciena's revenues were $4.8B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Ciena's revenue into 6 different product categories, the largest of which is oNTs, which represents 58% of Ciena's revenue.

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Mar

19th

2026

14:00

B2B Tag

Translating industry best practices into positive policy and regulatory outcomes with Ciena, Meta, AWS and TeleGeography

Live webinar | Hosted by Ciena and TeleGeography with guest speakers from Meta and AWS April 22, 2026 | 11 AM ET The International Connectivity Coalition (ICC) plays a key role in maintaining critical network infrastructure.

Ciena

Mar

19th

2026

03:55

Emerging Tech

TIME dotCom offers 1 Tb/s data transmission across the Pacific with Ciena

• Ciena’s latest optical technology on FASTER cable system increases Asia-Pacific's connectivity • Upgrade maximizes operational efficiency with minimal impact to facilities Kuala Lumpur – TIME dotCom Berhad (Time) has deployed Ciena's (NYSE: CIEN) latest optical technology across the FASTER cable system.

TelecomTV

Mar

18th

2026

18:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Ciena: demand for low latency brings hollow core fiber into play

Networking company Ciena has outlined its view that hollow core fiber (HCF) is the future generation of fiber technology. Jürgen Hatheier, chief technology officer, EMEA, at Ciena, told DCD during Mobile World Congress (MWC) that he expects HCF to play a key role in the coming years.

DCD

Mar

18th

2026

10:40

Management Changes, Capital Investment, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

What’s up with… Ciena & Meta, Odido, Liberty Global

In today’s industry news roundup: Ciena and Meta are pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in terms of ultra long-distance, unregenerated data transmission; Dutch operator’s poor run of luck continues; Liberty Global’s support

TelecomTV

Mar

18th

2026

09:02

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Ciena and Meta declare 'record' 800 Gbps subsea transmission on Bifrost cable system

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Mar

18th

2026

04:26

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Ciena is seeing a shift in its customer mix due to AI

Ciena is seeing a lot more of its revenue growth coming from hyperscalers Service provider customers are upgrading their networks to deal with AI traffic Finally, networking is getting the same respect as compute and storage OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS (OFC), LOS ANGELES — Ciena has its a big presence at the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) conference in Los Angeles, where this week a couple of the company's executives talked with Fierce about how AI is changing its customer mix.

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Mar

17th

2026

18:30

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Rethinking Network Infrastructure for the AI Era: A Conversation with Ciena

Bruce Hembree, VP and GM, America Sales of Ciena spoke with Allen Meeks, CEO of MOX Networks, about how the explosive growth of AI and data-driven healthcare is reshaping global network infrastructure. Meeks explains how MOX’s dual mandate provides firsthand experience for managing the scale and complexity of moving enormous volumes of data between hospitals, universities, national labs, and data centers.

MOX Networks

Mar

17th

2026

18:30

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

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Mar

17th

2026

18:30

Events, Artificial Intelligence

Ciena Brings IP Networking and Blue Planet Solutions to Upperside World Congress 2026

Demos and speaking sessions show ways to improve network performance for data center connectivity and AI-driven IP transport architectures Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) will spotlight some of the company’s latest innovations designed to improve data center connectivity, IP transport, and AI operations in booth #103 at Upperside World Congress 2026 , taking place March 24-26 at the Palais des Congrès de Paris.

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Mar

17th

2026

02:53

Capital Investment, Emerging Tech

How QCi’s Quantum-Secure Demo With Ciena At OFC 2026 Has Changed Its Investment Story (QUBT)

Advertisement United States / Tech Hardware / NasdaqCM:QUBT How QCi’s Quantum-Secure Demo With Ciena At OFC 2026 Has Changed Its Investment Story (QUBT) March 17, 2026 Quantum Computing Inc. and Ciena recently held a joint live demonstration at OFC 2026, showcasing a multilayer quantum-secure communications architecture combining quantum key distribution, quantum and classical authentication, and high-performance AES-256-GCM optical encryption on Ciena’s Waveserver platform.

Simply Wall Street

Mar

16th

2026

18:30

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

AI is everywhere. But its value only flows where networks can carry it.

AI is scaling beyond the data center into distributed inference across clouds and the edge. Ciena’s Vini Santos explains how turning that intelligence into real value requires IP networks built for performance, adaptability, and scale. AI is entering a new phase where the value of intelligence is increasingly realized during inference, when models generate real-time insights, decisions, and interactions.

Ciena

Mar

16th

2026

18:30

Events, Artificial Intelligence

Ciena : Brings IP Networking and Blue Planet Solutions to Upperside World Congress 2026

Demos and speaking sessions show ways to improve network performance for data center connectivity and AI-driven IP transport architectures Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) will spotlight some of the company's latest innovations designed to improve data center connectivity, IP transport, and AI operations in booth #103 at Upperside World Congress 2026 , taking place March 24-26 at the Palais des Congrès de Paris.

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

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