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Ciena + Cyan: A great combination

Ciena's CEO Gary Smith talks about the powerful combination of Ciena and Cyan. With Cyan, we are elevating the business value of networks for our customers and their end-users and leading the industry into a new era of truly open software-defined multi-vendor networks.

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