…on a five year contract under which it would supply its MultiWave Sentryä systems to AT&T, after successful evaluation. "This is an important and timely next step in our developing relationship with AT&T," said Larry Huang, senior vice president, sales and marketing for Ciena. "We are very…

This morning AT&T has issued this press release announcing that it has selected Ciena as a multi-year "Domain Supplier" for two domains: Optical Transport Network and Metro/Core Transport.  As the supplier for these two domains, Ciena will supply AT&T with equipment to maintain and expand…

AT&T has today named Ciena as a 2011 AT&T Supplier Award winner, recognizing Ciena and other winners "for their outstanding performance and service to AT&T affiliates during the past year." Of its more than 5,000 major suppliers for materials and services, AT&T named only seven as 2011…

The hot topic at last month?s OFC/NFOEC event was 40G/100G optical and the move to coherent detection solutions. As a broad topic, it seemed like everyone at the show wanted in on the game -- which was very different from OFC/NFOEC 2009 last year when Nortel MEN was one of the few at the show fully…

…over the past year has earned Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, recognition as a 2011 AT&T Supplier Award winner for its support of affiliates of AT&T*, one of the world’s leading data, voice, wireless and Internet services providers. “We are proud of…

…with AT&T. Today?s announcement reflects that Ciena?s dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) system has p assed AT&T?s preliminary evaluation. The trial agreement calls for Ciena to supply six 16-channel (40 Gbps) MultiWaveTMsystems for laboratory interoperability testing. AT&T has…

AT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world?s most advanced IP-based business communications services and…

Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced it will demonstrate its networking solutions at EMC World, May 21-24 in Las Vegas, in a simulated hybrid cloud environment to show how businesses can speed distribution of applications and data between data centers and to…

…tablets that dominated the buzz of the show, with Google, Samsung, and HTC dominating the conversation (see below chart).  Tablets were also huge at the event, garnering almost as much conversation as smart phones, according to Webtrends.  While most of these devices are primarily targeted to…

…announced that it had been informed this morning by AT&T that AT&T will not pursue further evaluation of Ciena?s DWDM systems. In view of the timing of AT&T?s decision, Ciena will adjourn its pending stockholder meeting, scheduled for today, at which stockholders are to vote on the proposed merger…