…excited with customer reaction to Ciena?s LightWorks™ Initiative and we?re thrilled to have the people of Lightera join the Ciena team," said Patrick Nettles, president and chief executive officer of Ciena. Ciena?s LightWorks Initiative was launched in mid-March with the Company?s announced combination…

…Corporation (Nasdaq: CIEN) today announced an industry-wide initiative to create the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), an open forum focused on accelerating the deployment of optical internetworks. The founding members of the initiative are AT&T, Bellcore, Ciena, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard Company…

…Corporation announced today that it has completed an initial public offering of common stock. The shares began trading today on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol CIEN. The offering was for 5,000,000 shares, which were sold at an initial public offering price of $23 per share. Ciena Corporation…

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In what it calls “two key initiatives,” Verizon today unveiled plans to expand its use of intelligent control plane capabilities and extend its 100G transport efforts into metro locations.  Verizon says the two moves are a strategic part of its global optical network transformation.…

…Testing was conducted through the Brocade Fabric Aware Program, an end-to-end interoperability initiative for storage entry to enterprise networks. The program is a comprehensive testing and configuration initiative designed to foster end-to-end SAN interoperability in multi-vendor Brocade-based SAN environments…

…transformative acquisition of Nortel’s MEN business,” said Theresa Caragol, who heads up Ciena’s global alliances, partner, and channel initiative. “Since that time, the PAC has been a critical tool in helping us ensure we are providing the right value to our partners as we made significant…

…plane technology into its network as part of a “new strategic initiative”, it caused quite a reaction.  Anytime a service provider with a global network that spans more than 500,000 route miles talks about a new initiative, people tend to take notice. That’s especially true when it…

…first “edge service delivery” announcement in Ciena’s LightWorks Services initiative, announced in May, which focuses on improving service profitability for carriers. As part of the initiative, Ciena is introducing a series of product enhancements and new products focused on network…

…Ciena’s DN 7100™ and DN 7200™ multiservice switches to support Verizon’s strategic Enterprise Advance network expansion initiative, which is designed to interconnect Verizon’s local networks and provide large business and government customers with advanced data services…