Ciena Corporation is the network specialist, focused on expanding the possibilities for its customers’ networks while reducing their cost of ownership. The company’s systems, software and services target and cure specific network pain points so that telcos, cable operators, governments and enterprises can best exploit the new applications that are driving their businesses forward.

As a network solutions provider to two-thirds of the world’s largest telecom service providers, Ciena’s breadth and experience reach around the globe. Ciena’s state-of-the-art intelligence automates network design, deployment and operation, reducing costs of delivering and supporting market-critical solutions.  Solutions are applicable for enterprises, governments, and the many different types of service providers.

Incorporated in Delaware in November 1992, Ciena’s founding mission was to radically change the economics of telecommunications networks. Initially, the company significantly advanced innovation by pioneering DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) technology as a means to split light across fibre optic lines, thereby enabling the transport of greater volumes of information such as voice, video and data across communications networks. This technology breakthrough propelled Ciena to rapid success, leading service providers like Sprint and WorldCom to deploy Ciena’s solutions throughout their nationwide networks in the 1990’s. It also led to Ciena’s initial public offering in February 1997, during which the company achieved a market capitalization of $3.4 billion – the largest first-day market capitalization of any venture-funded start-up company to that date.