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. Primarily focusing on fibre access, the company 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

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9,078

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TM Global is deploying Ciena optical equipment on networks carrying traffic across Malaysia and the wider Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand digital corridor, a move that addresses rising demand in Southeast Asia from data centers, cloud services, and artificial intelligence workloads. This follows an April 22 announcement where Lightstorm partnered with Ciena to upgrade the Japan–Guam–Australia submarine cable system using Ciena's WaveLogic coherent optical technology, aiming to quadruple client service capacity and enable 400Gbps services on the Tokyo–Sydney route. On the same day, West Michigan Advisors LLC disclosed purchasing a new position in Ciena Corporation during the fourth quarter, acquiring 3,116 shares valued at approximately $729,000. Earlier on April 22, Ciena highlighted that the rapid deployment of AI compute infrastructure is not always matched by network readiness, noting that AI demand is driving bandwidth needs across metro, long-haul, and subsea networks, resulting in emerging capacity constraints.

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

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Ciena's revenues were $4.8B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Ciena's revenue into 5 different product categories, the largest of which is oNTs, which represents 73% of Ciena's revenue.

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May

2nd

2026

07:45

B2B Tag

Ciena Rejoins S&P 500 As AI Data Center Demand Lifts Valuation

Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St's investing ideas for FREE. Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) has been added back to the S&P 500 index, highlighting renewed attention from equity investors.

Yahoo Finance New Zealand

May

2nd

2026

07:45

B2B Tag

Ciena Rejoins S&P 500 As AI Data Center Demand Lifts Valuation

Yahoo Finance

May

1st

2026

11:50

Financial Results, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Ciena Positioned to Lead AI-Driven Optical Networking Boom Amid Surging Demand and Backlog Growth

Ciena stands at the center of a powerful shift reshaping global data infrastructure. As a leading provider of high-speed optical networking equipment, software, and services, the company plays a critical role in enabling the massive data flows required by modern telecommunications and cloud computing.

Citybiz

Apr

30th

2026

17:41

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Dynamic Agentic AI Workflows for IP/Optical Operations

Blog What is scale across? The optical innovations enabling a new AI architecture As AI training scales beyond the limits of a single data center, a new architectural model is emerging: scale across. In this blog, Brodie Gage explores how distributed AI training is reshaping optical infrastructure—and details how Ciena is advancing the coherent and photonic innovations powering regional and multi-regional scale across applications.

Ciena

Apr

30th

2026

07:47

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Tracking the Coherent DSP Supply Chain

In the past, when coherent optics were reserved for long haul routes and high-capacity metros, the vertically integrated vendors who controlled their own DSPs (e.g., Ciena, Huawei, Infinera, Nokia) had the most success selling coherent optical ports.

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Apr

30th

2026

02:14

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

AI Inside Service Provider Networks

Ciena

Apr

29th

2026

18:30

Financial Results

From AT&T to Ciena: Tracking optical earnings in Q1 2026

Check out how the optical industry's key players performed in the fourth quarter of 2025. The fourth quarter of the 2025 earnings reporting season has begun, and Lightwave is tracking how key players in the optical networking industry segment, which includes optical vendors and business service providers, performed.

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Apr

28th

2026

18:30

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Ciena

Apr

28th

2026

13:45

Financial Results, Artificial Intelligence

Ciena Stock Slides as AI Networking Boom Faces a Tough Test

NEW YORK, April 28, 2026, 15:01 EDT Ciena dropped roughly 6.5% in Tuesday afternoon trading, sliding alongside other optical-networking stocks tied to AI data-center spending. Corning reported solid demand for its optical products, yet the company’s sales forecast for the second quarter landed short of what Wall Street had been expecting.

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Apr

28th

2026

08:17

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Advancing Ciena's Security Strategy: Trust, Resilience, Innovation, and Awareness in Action

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Apr

27th

2026

01:44

Partnerships and Alliances, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

MSAR Raya Open House 2026: Celebrating Togetherness

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jun. 16, 2022– MSA Resources Sdn Bhd (MSAR), a telecommunications infrastructure provider based in Peninsular Malaysia, has selected Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) to help build its Digital Super Highway Network. MSAR will leverage Ciena’s 6500, WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics, and Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller to reach data transmission speeds of 800Gb/s line rate and total network capacity of 33.6Tb/s per fiber pair.

MSA Resources

Apr

26th

2026

18:30

B2B Tag

Building a security & risk conscious culture: How Ciena balances opportunity and responsibility

At Ciena, cybersecurity is more than a set of controls—it’s a culture of shared risk awareness, accountability, and informed decision-making that helps protect our customers and support innovation. In this blog, Ashley Chackman, Lead, Security Training Awareness & Employee Engagement, shares her perspective, with contributions from Steve Cardinal, Lead, Security Risk Management.

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

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