CIENA LAUNCHES MEXICO OFFICE
Appoints Oscar Toulet Country Manager and Sales Director for CIENA Mexico
Linthicum, MD — 08/28/1999Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) today announced that Oscar Toulet has been appointed as its country manager and sales director for Ciena's operations in Mexico. Mr. Toulet will oversee sales and marketing operations from the company's new Mexico City office, and will report to M. Arely Castellon, vice president and general manager of the Latin America region.
Toulet has more than 10 years of sales and management experience in Mexico's telecommunications industry with AT&T, N.E.T. and Telmex. His project development experience includes contributing to the structured cabling of Mexico's World Trade Center, the opening of N.E.T.'s Mexico sales office, and multi-million dollar contract negotiations with Mexico's most important carriers.
"There is a significant need for optical solutions to aid Mexico's burgeoning networks," said Castellon. "Oscar's experience and respected position within the industry, will be a crucial factor to Ciena's success in Mexico. We look forward to his leadership in one of the world's fastest-growing telecom markets."
"This is a perfect time for Ciena to extend its worldwide leadership in optical networking to Mexico," said Toulet. "Ciena's new LightWorks™ architecture will be welcomed by Mexico's carriers seeking optical networking expertise as well as an effective bandwidth management solution."
Ciena Corporation's market leading optical networking systems form the core of telecommunications networks worldwide. Ciena's LightWorks™ architecture changes the fundamental economics of service provider networks by simplifying the network architecture and reducing the cost to operate it. Ciena's networking solutions utilize bandwidth expanding dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology and include the MultiWave® family of products for long-haul, short-haul, metropolitan and access applications. Ciena's CoreDirector™, an intelligent optical core switch, delivers dynamic provisioning, grooming, flexible capacity management and survivability. Ciena's most recent addition to its family of products is the AXR 500, a next generation multi-service transport platform that enables public network operators to efficiently transport existing voice and digital private line services along with new high bandwidth frame-based data services over a single integrated fiber optic access and interoffice network. Through its Ciena Services subsidiary, Ciena provides a range of engineering, furnishing and installation (EF&I) services for telecommunications service providers in the areas of transport, switching and wireless communications. Additional information about Ciena and its LightWorks architecture can be found on its worldwide Website: http://www.ciena.com.
Forward-looking statements in this release, including those relating to opportunities in Mexico's marketplace, are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in such forward-looking statements, due to risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, which include the risk factors disclosed in Exhibit 99.1 to the Company's Form 8-K filed with the Commission on July 21, 1999.
Nicole Anderson
Ciena Corporation
(877) 857 -7377
pr@ciena.com
Marie Downing
Ciena Corporation
(888) 243-6223
ir@ciena.com
