Ciena has announced the company’s operations and leadership team for Australia and New Zealand, holding a press conference today in Sydney, Australia to officially unveil our presence in the region.  In fact, the event that brought together Ciena execs with regional customers, media and analysts…

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Over the last month, I?ve been highlighting how Ciena is increasing its global footprint with the opening of operations in places like Australia, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia, as well as the game-changing global scope that came with the MEN acquisition back in March. This week, Ciena?s website has been…

…regional headquarters for the Middle East with a new office in Abu Dhabi, UAE.  Ciena also just last month officially opened operations in Australia and New Zealand.  And of course, the big acquisition news from March has also greatly expanded Ciena’s scope of operations across the world…

…alone, Ciena has opened new offices in South Korea and Japan, and last year officially announced the company?s operations and leadership team for Australia and New Zealand (see all our APAC news here).  This expanded level of engagement has been paying off with several recent high-profile customer…

Ciena today announced that VERNet in Australia had successfully completed a trial of its 40G/100G technology over VERNet?s live optical network.  The news marks the first customer-related 40G/100G announcement for Ciena since the acquisition of Nortel?s* MEN business was completed.  The news…

…TelstraClear is, by the way, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Australia’s Telstra. You can see the press release here. Today’s news provides a nice follow-on to Ciena’s official coming out party a few weeks ago for its operations in Australia and New Zealand. TelstraClear, already a customer for…

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