…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, including a lively Q&A session at the end that covered many aspects of Ciena’s business.…

…customers yet to be named publicly, as well as from more than 50 customers for its Ciena Services or Alta subsidiary. Ciena has now recognized revenue from a total of 17 transport equipment customers in its history. ``A year ago, few would have speculated that the bandwidth tsunami unleashed by the…

…EMC Corporation, said: "EMC and Ciena have a long history of partnering together to provide industry-leading information infrastructure solutions to our customers around the world. Ciena?s acquisition of these well-established networking assets will help EMC and Ciena provide a broader range of solutions…

…carriers (NCC). Teleway has demonstrated a history of being an early adopter of the latest in new telecommunications technologies. It was the first NCC in Japan to install synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) terminals, and concurrent with the installation of the Ciena DWDM systems, Teleway plans to upgrade…

…database of all installed equipment allows Ciena engineers to correlate issues across customers, track trends, and deliver predictive maintenance, in many cases before a real problem occurs. In addition, SmartTools provides a detailed history of each piece of Ciena equipment, tracked by serial number from…

…most vendors and OTU3 links used within the Ciena domain.  The control plane E-NNI interfaces support OSPF-based OTN routing and RSVP-based OTN signaling, and interwork seamlessly with Ciena’s internal control plane protocol. Ciena has a long history of promoting control plane interoperability…

…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…

…history of working closely with industry partners to provide best-in-class solutions and building blocks that help IT managers reduce cost and increase flexibility,” said Tom Buiocchi, vice president of worldwide marketing and support at Brocade. “We are very pleased to team with Ciena…

…said Anthony McLachlan, vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific, Ciena. “Today’s announcement not only underscores our continued market leadership in coherent 100G technology, but also extends our long history of collaboration and deployments with institutions worldwide in transforming…

…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 of engineering. "Ciena?s…