…North American sales operations as Vice President, North American Sales. Ms. Blanck will be primarily responsible for developing and maintaining business accounts and building customer relationships across North America. She will report to Ciena?s Senior Vice President of Global Sales, Chris Simpson…

…company as vice president, international sales. In that role, Smith will oversee Ciena?s entire international sales and marketing operations, which currently include offices in Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Ciena, Smith served as vice president - worldwide sales and marketing at INTELSAT. In all, he…

…President, Americas, assumes the role of Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales reporting to Ciena President and CEO Gary Smith.  “In the last several years, Ciena’s traversed some very challenging ground from a sales perspective,” said Smith. “With eight sequential quarters…

…Chris Simpson has joined Ciena and will be responsible for Ciena?s worldwide sales efforts, reporting to Ciena Chief Operating Officer, Gary Smith. "Ciena?s dramatically increased its global sales presence, growing our sales force by more than 65 percent last year alone, with Ciena optical networking…

Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) today announced that it has created a new strategy and marketing organization and realigned its sales organization to better address the rapidly evolving optical networking market opportunity and the company?s growing customer base. Steve Chaddick, formerly Ciena?s Senior…

…Ethernet-over-fiber access sales in its most recent fiscal quarter ending in April 2010, and this strong performance catapulted the vendor to the No. 1 share position (20 percent) of the Ethernet-over-fiber access segment in the first calendar quarter. Ciena’s sales were fueled by wireless backhaul…

…the network specialist, today announced the appointment of Vicente Arroyo to the position of area sales director for Spain and Portugal. Arroyo, 38, will be responsible for Ciena’s direct sales in the region in addition to developing an indirect model through the appointment of channel partners…

…joined AboveNet in 2000 and, in his role as Vice President of Sales Engineering, has been a key contributor to the success and growth of the organization. Mr. Germani’s technical leadership has helped make the company a leader in the sale of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, and in particular…

…partnerships and alliances, EMEA, and Norbert Pieper as regional channels director, Central and Eastern Europe. Traditionally, Ciena focused on direct sales across its target European markets. However, the Company recently revamped its ‘go to market’ plans, which include an evolution of its EMEA…

…Restricted cash (24,521 ) 10,751 Purchase of available for sale securities (63,591 ) (49,892 ) Proceeds from maturities of available for sale securities 454,141 — Proceeds from sales of available for sale securities 179,531 — Proceeds from sale of cost method investment — 6,544 Acquisition…