Ciena^® Corporation (NYSE: CIEN) today announced that Gary Smith, president and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the William Blair 34^th Annual Growth Stock Conference in Chicago, Illinois. The presentation is scheduled to start at 11:40 a.m. Eastern Time (10:40 a.m. Central Time) on Thursday, June 12, 2014.

The event will be webcast live and recorded.  Interested listeners who are unable to listen live may access the archive approximately one hour following the presentation of the live event in the Investors/Latest Events section of Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com.

About Ciena
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is the network specialist. We collaborate with customers worldwide to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally change the way they perform and compete. Ciena leverages its deep expertise in packet and optical networking and distributed software automation to deliver solutions in alignment with its OPⁿ architecture for next-generation networks. We enable a high-scale, programmable infrastructure that can be controlled and adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to coordinate computing, storage and network resources in a unified, virtualized environment. For updates on Ciena news, follow us on Twitter @Ciena or on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/ciena. Investors are encouraged to review the Investors section of our website at www.ciena.com/investors, where we routinely post press releases, SEC filings, recent news, financial results, and other announcements. From time to time we exclusively post material information to this website along with other disclosure channels that we use.