For our last blog post of the year, we look back at the 119 posts from 2010 and give out a couple of awards for the best posts in a variety of categories.  Like most awards, these winners are a bit subjective since the voting committee consists of a single person (that would be me).  But…

Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) today announced that Steve Chaddick, a founding member of Ciena?s management team and currently Ciena?s Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, has been appointed acting President of Ciena?s Core Switching Division. Chaddick replaces Jagdeep Singh…

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Back in early 2010 at OFC/NFOEC, I was fortunate enough to have an impromptu sit-down discussion with Ciena CTO Steve Alexander .  I learned back then that Steve is a guy worth listening to.  With 17 years at Ciena and a previous role in the Optical Communications Technology Group at…

One year ago today, I was on a plane to Ottawa to attend an employee event celebrating "One Ciena" and the completion of the Nortel MEN acquisition.  As Ciena?s new social media guy and with my brand new Ciena Insights blog up and running, my job was to provide a view to the event via our…

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…

….  Now I generally have the attention span of my 6 year old son, so I usually don’t do very well with online webinars.  With email, IM, twitter, and countless other distractions at my fingertips, I generally last about 10 minutes into the presentation before either leaving or completely…

Back in 2007 when I first began to manage a corporate blog and social media program (for Nortel back then), one of the primary goals for my blog was to get readers to post comments, questions and opinions.  In those early days of social media, that was what a blog was supposed to be all about,…

While reading through the daily headlines this morning something caught my eye.  I saw the word "booming" in an article title -- twice.  Considering the economic climate the last few years that?s not something I?m used to.  Analyst firm Infonetics issued a new market forecast on the…

These days, anytime someone brings up the topic of video and broadband networks, your mind immediately focuses on areas like YouTube, Netflix, and mobile video delivery.  But traditional broadcast media is going through their own bit of a revolution with how they use the fat bandwidth pipes…