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[https://www.ciena.com/products/6500] [https://www.ciena.com/products/wavelogic/wavelogic-6/wavelogic-6-extreme] [https://www.ciena.com/products/wavelogic/wavelogic-6/wavelogic-6-nano] [https://www.ciena.com/products/waveserver] Ciena’s routing and switching portfolio includes the 5164, an 800-Gb/s, 1RU hardened access and aggregation router with 32 1/10/25GbE ports and four 100/200GbE ports, and the 8110, a coherent aggregation router with 2.4-Tb/s switching capacity and two flexible 800-Gb/s slots. [https://www.ciena.com/products/5164] [https://www.ciena.com/products/8110] In February 2026, Ciena also announced Vesta 200 6.4T CPX, a pluggable co-packaged-optics solution with 200G/lane connectivity. [https://www.ciena.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/ciena-unveils-the-industrys-highest-density-lowest-power-pluggable-optical-engine-to-meet-data-center-ai-demands]\n\nIts software portfolio includes Blue Planet automation and cloud-native operations-support applications for inventory, orchestration, and assurance, with open REST APIs and vendor-agnostic automation. [https://www.ciena.com/insights/brochures/blue-planet-intelligent-automation-portfolio.html] [https://www.ciena.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/blue-planet-unveils-industrys-only-multi-cloud-native-oss-platform] Ciena’s services include implementation; advisory and enablement; maintenance, technical support and repair; and learning. 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It attributes revenue principally to where products are delivered or services are performed. In FY2025, revenue was $3.606 billion in the Americas (75.6% of total), $732 million in EMEA (15.4%), and $431 million in APAC (9.0%). The company reports these figures by region rather than by individual country. [P11067307][T9472484]\n\nCiena is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland, and maintains offices in multiple countries, including locations in Ottawa, London and Pune. Its careers information describes its employees as based in more than 35 countries; the FY2025 filing does not give a regional or country-level employee breakdown. 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[P44147900][T18937891] Networking Platforms provides optical networking and routing and switching solutions for network capacity and traffic transport; it generated $3,676.4 million, approximately 77.1% of total revenue. [P85058684][P73197194][P6844617] Within that segment, Optical Networking contributed $3,246.2 million (about 68.1% of company revenue) and Routing and Switching contributed $430.1 million (about 9.0%); these are product lines, not additional operating segments. [T22862][T4247646]\n\nPlatform Software and Services provides software for control and operations across network domains, and generated $363.8 million (about 7.6% of revenue). [P85058684] Blue Planet Automation Software and Services focuses on service-lifecycle automation, including multi-domain, multivendor operations-support software; it generated $115.5 million (about 2.4%). [P85058684] Global Services provides network implementation, maintenance and support, learning, and advisory and enablement services; it generated $613.8 million (about 12.9%). [P85058684][T4247646] Shares are approximate, calculated from FY2025 segment revenue and total revenue of $4,769.5 million. [P85058684]\n[P44147900][T18937891][P85058684][P73197194][P6844617][T22862][T4247646]", "updatedAt": "2026-10-02T11:07:27.031384Z" }, { "type": "HISTORY", "text": "Ciena was founded in 1992 by David Huber and co-founders Patrick (Pat) Nettles, Larry Huang, and Steve Chaddick. Nettles joined in 1994 and became president and CEO. In 1996, Ciena introduced its MultiWave 1600, a 16-channel dense wavelength-division multiplexing system; Sprint became its first announced customer that year. The company went public in 1997. 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