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Southern Cross Cable Limited (“Southern Cross”) has connected the world’s first transpacific 1 Tb/s single-carrier wavelength across its 13,500km live production network with Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optics. The connectivity milestone saw WL6e perform effortlessly at 1 Tb/s over the world’s longest single optical submarine cable segment and demonstrates the adaptive nature of Southern Cross’ network.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) today announced its expected participation in the following upcoming event with the financial community. This event will be webcast live and recorded. Archived versions will be made available approximately 24 hours following the conclusion of the live event in the Events & Presentations page of the Investors section of Ciena’s website.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) announced the appointment of Lawton W. Fitt as independent Chair of Ciena's Board of Directors, effective December 11, 2024. Concurrently, Patrick H. Nettles, Ph.D., stepped down as Executive Chair, in connection with his decision not to stand for re-election at the end of his term at Ciena’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, at which time he will retire. Dr. Nettles will continue in his role as a member of Ciena’s Board of Directors until that time and provide support to Ms. Fitt in her transition.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended November 2, 2024.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) expects to announce its fiscal fourth quarter and year-end financial results on Thursday, December 12, 2024 before the open of the financial markets. The press release will be available on Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com.

Critical bandwidth infrastructure provider euNetworks announced Europe’s first-ever 1.6 Tb/s coherent solution deployment using Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e), the industry’s first 1.6 Tb/s coherent transceiver. This technical first was carried out on euNetworks’ production network, sending commercial traffic over the company’s 281km route from Amsterdam to Düsseldorf. Owned and operated by euNetworks, the route forms part of one of euNetworks’ latest Super Highways—new and uniquely routed state-of-the-art fiber networks that are critical to Europe’s bandwidth needs.

On Net Fibra Colombia (ON NET FIBRA) is leveraging software from Blue Planet, a division of Ciena (NYSECIEN), to support its transition to a cloud-native Operations Support System (OSS) and automate the delivery of services to its customers. Through the deployment of inventory, orchestration, and assurance applications built on the Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform, ON NET FIBRA is enabling its customers to significantly improve the digital connectivity experiences they offer.

Sify Technologies (Sify) today announced that it has deployed Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) optical technology to connect its seven Metro Area Networks across India. Starting with an express path between Mumbai and New Delhi, Sify has upgraded its countrywide National Long Distance network to support services up to 600G. This upgrade will help interconnect its key Artificial Intelligence (AI) ready data center hubs in Mumbai, Chennai and Noida and the surrounding metro areas with a highly scalable network.

Ciena (NYSECIEN) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a program to repurchase up to $1 billion of the company’s common stock, commencing in fiscal year 2025 and continuing through the end of fiscal year 2027.

Sipartech, a leading infrastructure operator in Europe, is leveraging Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution to provide wholesale 400GbE services over an 800Gb/s wavelength on its submarine network and bolster the resilience and quality of its extensive pan-European network.

Ciena (NYSECIEN) continues to push technology boundaries by bringing to market a 1.6 Tb/s Coherent-Lite pluggable to help cloud and data center providers cope with the expected growth in cloud, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) related traffic.

Internet service provider (ISP) Commsworld is leveraging Ciena's (NYSECIEN) broadband solution for its new business-grade ‘Ethernet over Fibre to the Premises (EoFTTP)’ ultra-high-speed broadband service.

Danish network provider TDC NET is transforming its Operating Support System (OSS) using automation software from Blue Planet, a division of Ciena (NYSECIEN). Blue Planet Inventory (BPI), supported on Blue Planet’s Cloud Native Platform, will give TDC NET an accurate, unified view of its current mobile and fixed network resources and services.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) today announced that James E. Moylan, Jr., Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), plans to retire in twelve months, effective August 28, 2025. Ciena intends to commence a search process to identify a successor. Mr. Moylan will continue to serve as CFO until a successor is in place and he will assist in the transition of his responsibilities.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended July 27, 2024.

The leading provider of telecommunications and Internet services in the Kingdom of Bhutan, Bhutan Telecom is deploying Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) coherent routing solutions to support booming traffic demands. With Ciena’s 5164, 8110 and 8114 routers, Bhutan Telecom will improve the customer experience especially as its customers move towards new technologies like edge cloud applications.

Arelion and Ciena (NYSECIEN) today announced the successful completion of the world's first 1.6 terabits-per-second (Tb/s) wavelengths data transmission in a live network field trial. Powered by Ciena’s state-of-the-art WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e), this milestone occurred on Arelion’s 470km route between its existing Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in Ashburn, Virginia (Equinix) and Telxius’ (Telxius-CLS) Virginia Beach cable landing station, increasing capacity between two critical locations in Arelion’s North American network. Following this trial, Arelion will deploy WL6e across its network to increase its ability to serve the surging bandwidth demands of 5G, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) applications, cloud services, content delivery and more for wholesale and enterprise customers.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) expects to announce its fiscal third quarter financial results on Wednesday, September 4, 2024 before the open of the financial markets. The press release will be available on Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com.

Lumen Technologies (NYSELUMN) has selected intelligent automation software from Blue Planet, a division of Ciena NYSE:CIENNYSECIEN)

Sodvin AS, a provider of telecommunications and energy solutions, is leveraging Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) broadband solution to improve the capacity and reach of its residential broadband services throughout Trøndelag county, Norway.

Danish digital infrastructure provider TDC NET will deploy Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) converged packet optical solutions to upgrade its metro and long-haul networks with 800G technology. The network upgrades will enable TDC NET to sustainably launch new, advanced services that support its net-zero emissions goal by reducing power consumption compared to its existing DWDM platform.

Seren Juno Network Co., Ltd. and Seren Juno Network America Inc (Seren), operator of the NTT DATA-led JUNO submarine cable system, will deploy Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) GeoMesh Extreme, powered by WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e), to support Japan’s digital hub ambitions. Linking the United States and Japan, the 10,000km JUNO cable is estimated to launch at the end of 2024, supporting the delivery of high-capacity services across Asia Pacific.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended April 27, 2024.

Constl, a subsidiary of Space World Group, is deploying Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) optical technology to offer high speed Metro Area Network (MAN) and National Long Distance (NLD) connectivity services across its state-of-the-art pan-India network. A key aspect of this network is Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e), which will allow Constl to support up to 800G services today, and scale to 1.6T services with WaveLogic 6 (WL6) in the near future.

A global study commissioned by Ciena (NYSECIEN) sheds light on communications service providers’ (CSPs) growing optimism toward Artificial Intelligence (AI). More than half of telecom and IT engineers surveyed believe the use of AI will improve network operational efficiency by 40% or more1. In addition, an overwhelming 85%2 of respondents express confidence in CSPs’ ability to monetize AI traffic across networks.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) expects to announce its fiscal second quarter financial results on Thursday, June 6, 2024 before the open of the financial markets. The press release will be available on Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com.

Indonesian internet services and integrated network access provider HSPnet (PT Parsaoran Global Datatrans) today announced that at the beginning of 2024 it launched high-capacity services of up to 6 Tb/s on its B3JS (Jakarta-Bangka-Bintan-Batam-Singapore) and BDMCS (Batam-Dumai-Medan) cable systems. The transmission routes, totaling around 2,000km across both underwater and land cables, are supported by Ciena's (NYSECIEN) WaveLogic Ai-powered 6500 platform.

Blue Planet, a division of Ciena (NYSECIEN), has launched a major enhancement to its intelligent automation software portfolio with the first-of-its-kind Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform. Leveraging Kubernetes (K8s) technology to support multiple modular Operating Support System (OSS) applications, the new platform will allow Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to simplify and automate their OSS environments. Converging inventory, orchestration, and assurance applications on a common platform, it provides a game-changing strategy to improve operational efficiency and streamline service lifecycle automation.

Ciena (NYSECIEN) is proud to kick off the first day of OFC 2024 with a celebration of significant customer success, new optical innovations and industry recognition.

To support growing demand for more bandwidth across the Asia-to-Europe route, SEA-ME-WE 4 (South East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 4) recently completed an upgrade to its submarine cable system. Powered by Ciena's (NYSECIEN) GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution, the upgrade enables a capacity increase from 65Tb/s to 122Tb/s on the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable system.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended January 27, 2024.

Telia Lithuania, a Telia Company subsidiary and leading supplier of telecom services, is leveraging Ciena's (NYSECIEN) WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics to upgrade its countrywide network to support 400G and higher services and deploy the first 800Gb/s wavelength service between major cities in Lithuania.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, announced today that proxy materials are now available for its 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) expects to announce its fiscal first quarter financial results on Thursday, March 7, 2024 before the open of the financial markets. The press release will be available on Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com.

Southern Cross, Australasia’s independent specialist international capacity provider, is planning to deploy Ciena's (NYSECIEN) industry-leading WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) technology as a key part of the Southern Cross (SX) NEXT expansion plans from Sydney to Los Angeles. The use of WL6e technology in NEXT will allow the implementation of 800 Gb/s wavelengths across the single 12,500+km span, providing reliable, energy efficient, and high bandwidth connections to support offerings such as the recently launched 400GbE services from Southern Cross.

To satisfy rising bandwidth demands and cut energy use across its network, Vocus will deploy Ciena's (NYSECIEN) industry-leading WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) 1.6 Tb/s coherent technology across its long haul and metro links. This industry-first coherent optic solution will enable Vocus to benefit from greater cost-effectiveness and reliability.

BW Digital today announced the availability of commercial 400GbE services on the Hawaiki Transpacific Cable powered by Ciena's (NYSECIEN) GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution. This follows an earlier milestone when the Hawaiki cable achieved 500Gbps channel wavelengths.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended October 28, 2023.

Ciena® (NYSECIEN), a U.S.-based networking systems, services and software company, is adding domestic manufacturing through an expanded agreement with global diversified manufacturer Flex NASDAQ: FLEXNASDAQFLEX)

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) expects to announce its fiscal fourth quarter and year-end financial results on Thursday, December 7, 2023 before the open of the financial markets. The press release will be available on Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com.

Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology in Latin America, recently deployed Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) Waveserver 5 platform to expand connectivity and increase resiliency between data centers in Bogotá, Colombia. Scaling up to 800Gb/s, this upgrade greatly increases Cirion’s network capacity and helps meet the growing needs of its local and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, and cloud service providers.

Ciena (NYSECIEN) has reached an incredible milestone, surpassing 100,000 modems shipped of its industry-leading WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) programmable 800G technology, providing the foundations for metro, long-haul, and submarine networks that support ever-increasing bandwidth demands and are more energy efficient.

Telenet, a Liberty Global company and the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium, is deploying Ciena (NYSECIEN) optical and network management solutions to support its network expansion across Belgium.

Following the successful upgrade on the Indigo Submarine Cable, SUBCO is once again using Ciena (NYSECIEN) technologies to provide a resilient and reliable undersea corridor between Australia and Europe via the Oman Australia Cable (OAC). Leveraging Ciena GeoMesh Extreme, powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme in the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, OAC has now increased its capacity to a maximum of 48Tb/s, helping support increased bandwidth demands.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services, and software company, today announced the promotion of Dino DiPerna and Brodie Gage to its Executive Leadership Team, reporting to President and CEO Gary Smith. The leadership appointments are designed to support Ciena’s continued growth through market leadership in optical technologies, increasing opportunities in IP/Optical convergence, and addressable market expansion in next-generation metro and edge applications.

Avaroa Cable Limited (ACL), Ciena (NYSECIEN), BW Digital, and Vodafone Cook Islands (Vodafone) are working together to improve connectivity for students in the Cook Islands’ 30 schools for the next three years (2023-2026).

Virgin Media Ireland is working with Blue Planet, a division of Ciena (NYSECIEN), to support the company’s three-year move to a full fibre network, and transition from traditional cable services to fully automated high-speed fibre broadband services. With the Blue Planet platform as the foundation of its network and service automation strategy, Virgin Media is able to deliver a better end-user experience and ultra-fast broadband connectivity for its customers.

EdgeUno, a leading infrastructure as a service (IaaS) company in Latin America, recently upgraded its data center interconnect network with Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) Waveserver 5 compact interconnect platform, powered by WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) 400ZR coherent pluggables.

Ciena (NYSECIEN) today announced that Mary G. Puma has been appointed to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended July 29, 2023.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) today announced its expected participation in the following upcoming event with the financial community. This event will be webcast live and recorded. Archived versions will be made available approximately 24 hours following the conclusion of the live event in the Events & Presentations page of the Investors section of Ciena’s website.

Ciena (NYSECIEN) recently set near-term science-based greenhouse gas reduction targets (SBTs), approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), further extending the company’s promise to reduce its environmental impact. Ciena’s SBTs address its direct operations, as well as its innovative technology solutions, which can reduce the environmental impact of networks across the globe. The targets align with the Paris Climate Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) expects to announce its fiscal third quarter financial results on Thursday, August 31, 2023 before the open of the financial markets. The press release will be available on Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended April 29, 2023.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) today announced its expected participation in the following upcoming event with the financial community. This event will be webcast live and recorded. Archived versions will be made available approximately 24 hours following the conclusion of the live event in the Events & Presentations page of the Investors section of Ciena’s website.

Great Plains Communications (GPC), the leading Midwestern telecommunications provider with a growing, privately owned 16,500+ mile fiber network reaching 13 states, is deploying Ciena's (NYSECIEN) Coherent Routing solution and WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) technology. This deployment will increase GPC’s network capacity, reliability, and resiliency to adapt to the continually increasing bandwidth needs of business, carrier, and residential customers.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) expects to announce its fiscal second quarter financial results on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 before the open of the financial markets. The press release will be available on Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com.

Ciena (NYSECIEN) introduced WaveRouter, an industry-first platform architecture optimally designed for the converged metro network. As part of Ciena’s Coherent Routing strategy, WaveRouter supports the exponential growth of metro traffic driven by bandwidth-hungry services such as 5G, high-speed broadband, enterprise business services, and the cloud. Seamlessly unifying IP, optical, and compute functionality in a single platform, WaveRouter’s future-proof scalability from 6Tb/s to 192Tb/s addresses the needs of service providers who are dealing with unprecedented traffic demand.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced that it is reaffirming guidance for its fiscal second quarter and full year 2023. In addition, the company is reaffirming its previous statements with respect to both the demand environment and the normalization of backlog and inventory dynamics.

Ciena (NYSECIEN) announced today that Colt Technology Services (Colt) is now able to run high-capacity services across long distances spanning more than 500km using Ciena’s industry-leading coherent technology.

Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE), a consortium of Asian telecommunications carriers managing the ASE cable system, is working with Ciena (NYSECIEN) to improve the design capacity and sustainability of its cable system.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended January 28, 2023.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) today announced its expected participation in the following upcoming event with the financial community. This event will be webcast live and recorded. Archived versions will be made available approximately 24 hours following the conclusion of the live event in the Events & Presentations page of the Investors section of Ciena’s website.

Marking another industry first in coherent optics, Ciena (NYSECIEN) announced the latest generation of its industry-leading WaveLogic technology. Optimized for high-capacity transport required with next-generation routing data paths and associated wholesale services, Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 will support up to 1.6Tb/s single-carrier wavelengths for metro ROADM deployments, 800Gb/s over the longest links, and energy-efficient 800G pluggables across 1000km distances. As service providers grapple with the dual challenge of satisfying unabating bandwidth demand and cutting energy use, WaveLogic 6 supports the capabilities and evolution paths needed to meet current and future network and business requirements.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, announced today that proxy materials are now available for its 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Gary B. Smith, President and CEO, and David M. Rothenstein, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer and Corporate Secretary, will facilitate the meeting.

The Maryland Broadband Cooperative (MdBC), a middle-mile network provider, has tapped Ciena (NYSECIEN) for new transport gear to upgrade its existing 2,500 fiber mile statewide optical network. With this initiative, MdBC will provide 400G transport services to its more than 80 members, which include telecom companies, internet service providers (ISPs), utilities, health care facilities, universities, and state and local government.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) expects to announce its fiscal first quarter financial results on Monday, March 6, 2023 before the open of the financial markets. The press release will be available on Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com.

French Polynesian telecom operator ONATi, a subsidiary of the OPT French Polynesia Group, has selected Intelia and Ciena (NYSECIEN) to increase the capacity of the Honotua international submarine cable to 300Gb/s. The last stage of operations was successfully carried out in October 2022 thanks to the engagement and expertise of the ONATi, Intelia and Ciena teams.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced the appointment of David M. Rothenstein as senior vice president, chief strategy officer and corporate secretary. Rothenstein has served as Ciena’s senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary since November 2008, and as acting chief strategy officer since March 2022. He will continue to report to President and CEO Gary Smith.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced the appointment of Joe Cumello as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Blue Planet, a division of Ciena. Cumello has served as Ciena’s Senior Vice President, Global Marketing & Communications since September 2020, and previously as Vice President, Global Marketing & Partners. He rejoined the company in 2015 through its acquisition of Cyan, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer and a member of the company’s management team, which introduced Blue Planet to the industry.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) today announced its expected participation in the following upcoming event with the financial community. This event will be webcast live and recorded. Archived versions will be made available approximately 24 hours following the conclusion of the live event in the Events & Presentations page of the Investors section of Ciena’s website.

Dedicado, a leading telecommunications company in Uruguay, recently deployed a high-capacity, resilient network between Argentina and Uruguay. Dedicado is leveraging Ciena’s (NYSECIEN) 6500 Packet-Optical Platform powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optical technology in both terrestrial and submarine network segments. Believed to be the first high-capacity 600G to 800G network between Argentina and Uruguay, this upgrade creates a more adaptive network to support 5G, over-the-top (OTT) services and data center traffic. The network can deliver up to 25.2 Tbps between the countries.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended October 29, 2022.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tibit Communications, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Petaluma, California, and that it has acquired Benu Networks, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. Tibit and Benu are focused on simplifying broadband access networks through next-generation PON technologies and advanced subscriber management, respectively.

Ciena® Corporation (NYSECIEN) expects to announce its fiscal fourth quarter and year-end financial results on Thursday, December 8, 2022 before the open of the financial markets. The press release will be available on Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com.