Ciena posts quarterly revenue of $729m, up 8.7% yoy
Ciena reported revenue of $728.7 million for its fiscal third quarter 2017, as compared to $670.6 million for the fiscal third quarter 2016. Net income (GAAP) amounted to $60.0 million,...
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Ciena Appoints Bill Fathers to Board
Ciena appointed William D. Fathers to its Board of Directors. Fathers, 49, currently serves as the Senior Operating Partner responsible for investments in Communications Infrastructure at Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, a...
CALIENT acquired by Suzhou Chunxing Precision Mechanical Co.
Suzhou Chunxing Precision Mechanical Co., Ltd. has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in CALIENT Technologies, a supplier of optical switching solutions based on proprietary 3D microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology....
Luna sells optical receivers business to MACOM for $29.5m
Luna Innovations, supplier of products for the aerospace, automotive, energy, defence and telecommunications markets, announced that MACOM Technology Solutions has agreed to buy the assets and operations related to its...
NTT demos 118 Tbit/s transmission on multi-core fibre
NTT, together with six partners, KDDI Research, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Fujikura, Furukawa Electric, NEC and Chiba Institute of Technology (CIT), announced a demonstration of what is claimed as the highest...
Alaska Communications deploys Ciena
Ciena announced that Alaska Communications has upgraded its terrestrial and AKORN submarine networks using its solutions to improve Internet access and enable secure, reliable connectivity in Alaska.The network upgrades are...
Ciena teams with University of Waterloo
Ciena announced that it is working with engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo to develop solutions to help network operators and Internet providers address to the ever increasing demand...
LuxNetwork picks Ciena
Ciena announced that LuxNetwork of Luxembourg has selected its 6500 Packet-Optical Platform with integrated WaveLogic Encryption for a new 100 Gbit/s network designed to increase network capacity to support the...
IT solutions company Ideal Integrations selects Ciena
Ciena announced that Pittsburgh-based Ideal Integrations, a regional IT consulting company, has deployed its packet networking solutions to provide access to affordable Internet connectivity, as well as private connections between...
Ciena to upgrade Bouygues Telecom backhaul, aggregation, SuperCore
Ciena announced that Bouygues Telecom of France, serving over 3 million fixed broadband and around 13 million mobile subscribers, has selected its 6500 Packet-Optical Platform to help improve the efficiency,...
Ciena reports revenue of $707.0 million, up 10% YoY
Ciena reported revenue of $707.0 million for its fiscal second quarter 2017, as compared to $640.7 million for the same period last year. Net income (GAAP) for the fiscal second...
Coriant Appoints Homayoun Razavi as Chief Customer Officer
Coriant has appointed Homayoun Razavi to lead its global sales and marketing organization. As Chief Customer Officer (CCO), Executive Vice President of Global Sales, and Chief Digital Marketing Officer (CDMO),...
Kaiam expands UK manufacturing capacity via acquisition of facilities from CP
Kaiam, a privately-held developer of hybrid photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology, announced the completion of its acquisition of the manufacturing facilities of Compound Photonics (CP) in Newton Aycliffe, Durham in...
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