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Ciena’s Gary Smith named a top CEO by Glassdoor
Ciena’s CEO of almost 20 years has been honored by one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites in this annual award with ...
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Ciena’s Ultimate eBook Holiday Bundle is Back: 20 ...
Looking for some casual light reading this holiday season as you kick back in your favorite chair drinking eggnog? Well, look som ...
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Get Ready to Geek Out! Ciena’s Guide to Geek Pride
Today is International Geek Pride Day. We're celebrating with some of the stellar minds at Ciena by looking at the careers and in ...
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Helping our people find happiness
Happiness might not be a term you hear many companies use beyond customer service, but at Ciena it’s also part of a commitment we ...
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How a Ciena Collaboration with Inatel is Leading ...
Ciena's partnership with Inatel—a technology-based education and research institution provides approximately 800 students with ex ...
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How I built my own mobile cell tower
What do you do when your favorite cabin getaway is so remote you can't get a good cell signal? If you're Ciena's Al Lounsbury, yo ...
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How is change management the key to successful ca ...
The Cable/MSO industry is entering new territory as networks are modernized to get ahead of market dynamics. Change was everywher ...
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How planners, operations teams and executives can ...
Network providers need to harness telemetry data from their infrastructure so they can operate more agile, adaptive systems. With ...
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In Their Words: Gary Smith, Steve Alexander & ...
Gary Smith, Steve Alexander, and Steve Chaddick, three of Ciena’s most recognized names for a rare glimpse into Ciena’s early day ...
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It Takes A Community to Raise a Network: The Cien ...
The ability of our customers to communicate in an open forum with their own counterparts and with our Ciena teams has become crit ...
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Listen to understand, then act together
How we are using our employee surveys at Ciena to continue conversations and drive actions.
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Making meaningful progress for people and the pla ...
At Ciena, we are committed to driving sustainability across our operations and product innovation. Our sustainable business pract ...
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Network services and the value of choice
Your network has its own unique needs to support your organization’s goals and objectives. That’s why Ciena is introducing new se ...
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OTN Speedwagon: America’s best corporate band
Ciena is the proud home of America’s best corporate band: OTN Speedwagon. That distinction was won at the 2013 FORTUNE Battle of ...
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Our mission: to expand opportunities for students ...
Ciena's Sam Paone explains why partnership is critical to progress.
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Predictions: Ciena CTO Steve Alexander looks at t ...
Ciena’s CTO Steve Alexander discusses key trends that will shape the industry in 2020 and beyond including, 5G, edge computing, a ...
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Preview our Top 5 online courses to celebrate Nat ...
September 15 is National Online Learning Day, and Ciena is joining with others to celebrate the opportunities and advances that o ...
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Q&A with Ciena's Ryan Perera: The evolving In ...
The network requirements of the Indian telecom industry are evolving with the emergence of next-generation technologies. This is ...
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Realizing the Digital Age: Why connecting the pla ...
Most of us share the firmly-held belief that by connecting the planet we will truly transform the world and improve both producti ...
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Reducing resourcing challenges by out-tasking mul ...
In today’s increasingly complex multi-vendor network environments, many businesses are compelled to out-task their multi-vendor o ...
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Reflecting our People’s Passion for Good: Gary Sm ...
Ciena CEO Gary Smith details the efforts of Ciena's volunteer groups around the world, and how the company's Ciena Cares program ...
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Side-stepping the cost, complexity and extended t ...
How organisations can reduce time to market for new connectivity offerings from 24 months to just six months with a white label d ...
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The Evolution of Ciena.com…and Happy Birthday to ...
We look back at Ciena.com over the years and acknowledge the 25th anniversary of the launch of the world's first website.
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The Global Connectivity Divide: How we’re doing a ...
Ciena CEO Gary Smith: While the connectivity of things may promise tremendous advancements in a multitude of applications with ma ...