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,…

…T1/T3/SONET/SDH backhaul infrastructure and Ethernet Virtual Private Lines to replace similarly stodgy Frame Relay and ATM services. The rest is history. They became the fastest growing services out there.   So is that the end of the story? Did the MEF ride off into the sunset and the boys over…

…’s afternoon lecture was the role that mergers and acquisitions play in corporate strategy. With 13 acquisitions in Ciena’s corporate history, including seven since Gary took over the CEO role in 2001, Gary had a wealth of experience on the topic.   The session lasted well over two hours…

…Chris?s guest post. ============= This is a very exciting time to be working in research and education networking. The Internet2 Community has a long history of capitalizing on high-speed capacity on a global scale to innovate and advance the research agenda of the U.S. and collaborate with researchers around…

…performance and maintenance simplifies the process of troubleshooting network faults, while maintaining the quality of revenuegenerating services. Circuit history depicts both current circuit status and historical path used to verify where, when and why re-routes occurred. Alarms and events are correlated automatically…

…the optical business of 100 year old Nortel.*   The mark-up on the chart is courtesy of the Banana Stew blog that posted this bit of optical history.   Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   **Nortel ® is a trademark of Nortel and is used by Ciena under license from…

…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-to-cover can be seen here, with…

…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 video below of the “Avaya Rapper.”

…was also elected as one of eleven members of the MEF Board of Directors.   The night was highlighted by retrospectives of the group’s history as well as forward-looking predictions of what the next generations of Ethernet technology might bring. Already a US$40B market for services and equipment…

…uncertainty 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…