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.

2025 Revenue

Founded

1992

Headcount

9,078

Headquarters

US

Primary Segment

Fibre access

Ownership

Publicly Owned

Deployments

61

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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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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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