Ciena Corporation

Ciena Corporation provides network hardware software and services that support the transport routing switching aggregation service delivery and management of video data and voice traffic on communications networks worldwide The companys Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking products and solutions that optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport optical transport network switching and packet switching Its products include 6500 PacketOptical Platform 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System Waveserver stackable interconnect system and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system and the 5400 family of PacketOptical platforms as well as ZSeries PacketOptical Platform 3000 family of service delivery switches and service aggregation switches and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and the Ethernet packet configuration for the 5410 Service Aggregation Switch and 6500 Packet Transport System This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products The companys Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multidomain service orchestration inventory route optimization and analysis network function virtualization orchestration analytics and related services Its Platform Software and Service segment offers OneControl unified management system and platform software services as well as manage control and plan software The companys Global Services segment provides consulting and network design installation and deployment maintenance support and training services The company sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to network operators Ciena Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover Maryland