…joined Ciena as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development in May 2004.  Prior to Ciena he served as Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Ottawa-based Innovance Networks, with responsibility for a variety of strategic planning and operations activities. Prior to Innovance, Mr. Frodsham spent…

Hundreds of Ciena employees and local media gathered yesterday at Ciena’s Ottawa campus to hear Ciena execs and local government officials announce a joint agreement focused on technology investment in Ontario.   Sandra Pupatello, Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade…

…Ciena’s existing Canadian-based development resources, making Ottawa the company’s largest product and development center. Ciena currently has development facilities in Alpharetta, Georgia; Linthicum, Maryland; Ottawa, Ontario; San Jose, California; Spokane, Washington; and Gurgaon, India…

I?ve been walking around the Vectors Summit event this week feeling like I?ve had a camera glued to my hand.  I?ve just posted a ton of pictures from the event to a new album on the Ciena Facebook page.  A few of them are below, but go to the album to see them all.  I?ll be posting…

Last week in Ottawa, Ciena CEO Gary Smith and Philippe Morin, Ciena’s Senior VP of the Global Products Group, hosted a worldwide employee event to celebrate Ciena’s acquisition of the Nortel MEN business.  Gary and Philippe broadcast live from Ottawa to over 30 employee locations around…

Ottawa Business Journal

    From Ottawa Airport * Take the Airport Pkwy north. * Airport Pkwy becomes Bronson Ave once you are north of Heron Rd. * Continue on Bronson Ave north and turn left unto Raymond St. * Take first left (on ramp to Hwy #417 west). * Hwy #417 west to Moodie Drive. * North on Moodie Dr to Carling…

I spent most of last week at Ciena’s Ottawa lab for an annual Ciena customer event called Vectors Summit. The event brings customers from around the world to Ciena’s main lab facility to talk to experts and executives, and to see detailed product and technology demonstrations under NDA.…

…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, 2008 March 3, 2008 $295.8 million2…

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 social…