Ciena
| Ciena Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US1717793095 |
| founding | 1992 |
| Seat |
Hanover , MD, United States
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| management | Gary B. Smith |
| Number of employees | 5,555 |
| sales | 2,601,000,000 USD |
| Branch | telecommunications |
| Website | www.ciena.com |
| As of October 31, 2016 | |
Ciena Corporation is a United States telecommunications company . The company is listed in the S&P 500 . The seat is in Hanover in Anne Arundel County .
The Ciena Corporation was founded with a focus on optical transmission technology. In the years that followed, the product scope was expanded and today consists of solutions for access networks, packet switching, data transport and switching, network monitoring and network services.
The company is considered a technological pioneer that paved the way for an affordable Internet. The innovations include:
- First OADM
- First 16-channel DWDM system
- First Metro DWDM system
- First 40-channel DWDM system
- First Intelligent Optical Core Switch
- First 96-channel DWDM system
- First 10G Metro WDM system
- First DWDM wide area system with 25 GHz channel spacing
- First integrated and automated wavelength switch for wide area DWDM
- First provider of freely programmable optical line cards
Company history
Ciena was founded in Delaware in 1992 . A number of companies in the industry were acquired in the following years:
- 1997: AstraCom
- 1998: Alta Telecom, Terabit
- 1999: Lightera Networks, Omnia Communications
- 2001: Cyras Systems
- 2002: ONI Systems
- 2003: WaveSmith Networks, Akara Corporation
- 2004: Internet Photonics, Catena Networks
- 2008: World Wide Packet
- 2009: Nortel's Optical and Carrier Ethernet division,
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ciena Corporation 2016 Form 10-K Report , accessed January 24, 2017