Ciena: "A Jackpot for the Record Books"
Description: Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, offers leading network infrastructure solutions, intelligent software and a comprehensive services practice. Its portfolio of software-centric optical and Ethernet platforms form the foundation of many of the largest, most reliable and sophisticated service provider, enterprise, government, and research and education networks across the globe.
Products: Ciena's products and services include:
- Packet-Optical Transport: Platforms that automatically adapt to a wide range of existing fiber plants, making 40G and 100G as easy to deploy as 10G.
- Packet-Optical Switching: Multi-terabit-class reconfigurable switching systems utilizing intelligent mesh networking to automate the provisioning and dynamic bandwidth control of high-capacity services.
- Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery: Intelligent devices that create low-touch, high-velocity access, backhaul and aggregation networks.
- Ciena One Software Suite: Unified software solutions for comprehensive service lifecycle control, proactive monitoring and multi-layer control plane across a wide range of network layers and service types.
- Ciena Specialist Services: A services practice that applies Ciena expertise to your specific challenges and opportunities.
Accomplishments: Ciena pioneered Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology as a means to split light across fiber optic lines, thereby enabling the transport of greater volumes of information such as voice, video and data across communications networks.
IPO: Ciena's initial public offering in February 1997 achieved a market capitalization of $3.4 billion—the largest first-day market capitalization of any venture-funded startup company to that date. The Wall St. Journal wrote that "Ciena investors are getting one of the biggest payouts in venture-capital history."1
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1 The Wall St. Journal, June 5, 1998
