Ciena

About Ciena

Ciena Corporation is an American networking-systems, services, and software company headquartered in Hanover, Maryland. The company was founded in 1992 by David R. Huber and went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1997 under the ticker CIEN. Ciena is one of the world's largest suppliers of optical and packet networking equipment, providing the underlying transport infrastructure for many of the world's largest communications service providers, internet content providers, web-scale data-centre operators, governments, and large enterprises. Its product portfolio spans coherent optical transport platforms (the WaveLogic and 6500/8700 families), packet networking and routing systems, the Blue Planet portfolio of network-automation, inventory, and orchestration software, the Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller, and a broad set of professional and managed services. Ciena's research and development is concentrated in optical and packet networking, coherent digital signal processing, photonic integration, software-defined networking, and network automation. Ciena serves customers in more than 85 countries and counts most of the world's tier-one telecom carriers and major hyperscale internet companies among its customers. The company has a significant India presence, with engineering and global-business-services centres in Gurugram and Bengaluru that contribute to optical, packet, and software product development as well as global support. Indian fresher and early-career hiring at Ciena typically targets software-engineer, firmware, hardware, optical, network-engineer, services, and corporate-functions roles, with applications routed through Ciena's global careers portal.

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