Our passion is to provide rewarding experiences that result in exceptional outcomes — for you, and for your end-users. As a network strategy and technology company, we apply technology in the context of your world — working to activate your agenda and make a meaningful difference.

Ciena is a network strategy and technology company known for its commitment to customer success. With 25 years of industry leadership, we support more than 1,300 of the world's largest, most reliable networks. Our technology is complemented with a high-touch consultative business model.

We're committed to developing and applying technologies that facilitate openness, virtualization, automation, collaboration, and a common experience. Technologies that offer the greatest degree of choice deliver the most rewarding customer experiences and business outcomes.

Our inspiration to innovate comes directly from the dynamics of each customer's business and network. Ciena engineers have received nearly 2,000 patents, representing a diverse range of inventions and contributing our customers' continued success.

We leverage our deep expertise in packet and optical networking and distributed software automation to deliver solutions for next-generation networks. We enable high-scale, programmable networks 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.