CIENA Corporation was founded in 1992 by Optelecom in conjunction with David Huber, Kevin Kimberlin, and Lawrence Huang.
Soon after the company began working with Sprint to expand Sprint’s all-digital fiber-optic network. After the work was completed, this network had increased Sprint’s capacity by 1,600 percent and went on to become the largest Internet traffic carrier in the world at that time.
Due to this success, CIENA Corporation had the highest first year sales of any start-up in 1996.
Today the company makes transport and switching equipment that increases capacity of long-distance fiber-optic networks, sells optical transport systems, and provides broadband access products that enable communications companies to deliver services such as VoIP, video, and DSL.
CIENA Corporation trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CIEN, is a member of the Russell 2000, is #952 in the Fortune 1000, has 5,070 employees, and had $2.28 billion in revenue in 2014.
CIENA CorporationCIENA Corporation was founded in 1992 by Optelecom in conjunction with David Huber, Kevin Kimberlin, and Lawrence Huang.
Soon after the company began working with Sprint to expand Sprint’s all-digital fiber-optic network. After the work was completed, this network had increased Sprint’s capacity by 1,600 percent and went on to become the largest Internet traffic carrier in the world at that time.
Due to this success, CIENA Corporation had the highest first year sales of any start-up in 1996.
History
Today the company makes transport and switching equipment that increases capacity of long-distance fiber-optic networks, sells optical transport systems, and provides broadband access products that enable communications companies to deliver services such as VoIP, video, and DSL.
CIENA Corporation trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CIEN, is a member of the Russell 2000, is #952 in the Fortune 1000, has 5,070 employees, and had $2.28 billion in revenue in 2014.
