Company Acquired Date Announced Date Completed Approx. Value at Completion Location Nortel?s* Metro Ethernet Networks Business December 2, 2009 March 19, 2010 $773.8 million2 Ottawa, Canada *?Nortel? is a trademark of Nortel Networks, used under license by Ciena World Wide Packets January 22,…

…array of topics related to the company, the telecommunications industry and its rapidly evolving nature, perspectives with regard to engaging in business abroad and many other arenas. He provided a robust perspective of Ciena’s mergers and acquisitions history by way of a timeline (a very aggressively…

…focuses mainly on unified communications, VoIP and enterprise IP networking solutions, and such the company’s addressable market does not overlap with Ciena’s. Its website has a nice company history page that can quickly get you up-to-speed, but if that’s not enough you can also watch the…

…future technological principals. In April of 2007, SafeNet became a private company owned by Vector Capital. During the years 2002-2007, SafeNet increased its revenue by 838%. SafeNet and its predecessors have a combined history of more than 50 years of security expertise in more than 100 countries around…

…about the future that has gone on over a long period of time, I think it was particularly important to get everyone aligned.  The history of these two companies is wonderful, but it was important that we get everybody on the same page and aligned on a single set of objectives globally.   Philippe…

…both customers and employees) while integrating Nortel?s MEN business that has doubled the company in size.  The article also does a nice job of giving a little bit of the history that took both companies down the path towards the acquisition. A very nice digital version of the issue from cover…

…today announced a plan to provide fully-tested Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions over Metro and Wide Area Networks (MANs/WANs). Based on each company’s best-in-class connectivity technology, these solutions establish a new price/performance industry benchmark for SAN extension solutions used…

…at Goldman Sachs since 1994 and managing director since 1996, has been involved in investment banking and equity underwriting for high-technology companies, including numerous initial public offerings in the Internet, software and communications equipment sectors. Ms. Fitt currently is co-head of Goldman…

…data. Ciena and Lightower History: * Lightower was among the first service providers in the Northeast to offer 40G bandwidth services using Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with WaveLogic™ coherent optical processors. In December 2009, the companies worked together on a 100G…

…on an optical fiber into 16 individual light waves, boosting carrying capacity to more than half a million simultaneous conversations. "WorldCom?s history of WDM deployments makes the 16 wavelength Ciena DWDM system a natural progression in increasing capacity, " said Russ Ray, WorldCom?s vice president…