Ciena Corporation (CIEN)

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Ciena Corporation

7035 Ridge Road
Hanover, MD 21076
United States
410 694 5700
https://www.ciena.com

Sector(s): Technology
Industry: Communication Equipment
Full-time employees: 8,313

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Gary B. Smith	CEO, President & Director	2.5M	N/A	1960
Mr. James E. Moylan Jr.	Senior VP of Finance & CFO	1.15M	N/A	1951
Mr. Jason M. Phipps	Senior Vice President of Global Customer Engagement	1.1M	N/A	1972
Mr. David M. Rothenstein	Senior VP, Chief Strategy Officer & Corporate Secretary	975.37k	N/A	1968
Dr. Patrick H. Nettles	Executive Chairman of the Board	156k	N/A	1943
Mr. Stephen B. Alexander	CTO & Member of Technology Advisory Council	746.16k	N/A	1959
Mr. Gregg M. Lampf	Vice President of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Sheela Kosaraju	Senior VP, General Counsel, Assistant Secretary & Interim Chief People Officer	N/A	N/A	1973
Ms. Rebecca Smith	Senior VP of Global Marketing & Communications	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Joseph R. Cumello	Senior VP & GM of Blue Planet	N/A	N/A	1972

Amounts are as of 31 December 2023, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Ciena Corporation provides hardware and software services for delivery of video, data, and voice traffic metro, aggregation, and access communications network worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers convergence of coherent optical transport, open optical networking, optical transport network switching, IP routing, and switching services. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms, as well as 8100 coherent routing platforms; 3000 family of service delivery switches and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products. The company's Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, multi-cloud orchestration, and unified assurance and analytics services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers MCP domain controller solution, and OneControl unified management system, as well as planning tools. The company's Global Services segment provides maintenance support and training, installation and deployment, and consulting and network design services. Ciena Corporation was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.

Corporate governance

Ciena Corporation’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 April 2024 is 2. The pillar scores are Audit: 4; Board: 3; Shareholder rights: 2; Compensation: 2.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.