Why Invest in Ciena?
Ciena is an Industry-leading global networking systems, services, and software company with a strong track record of creating shareholder value
Leading technology and innovation
- Ownership of the key enabling technologies for our solutions
- Unmatched investment capacity to force the pace of invention in our industry.
Diversification and scale of business model
- A broad-based business that spans key customer segments, a wide range of solutions and applications, supported by experts across every region around the world
Leader in Optical markets1 and disruptor in emerging opportunities
- #1 or #2 across our Optical markets
- Challenger in Next Gen Metro & Edge via Routing and Switching portfolio
- Growing Blue Planet Intelligent Automation business
Demonstrated track record of financial performance
- Consistently increasing Operating Margin
- Revenue growth historically in the high single digits
Flexibility with strong balance sheet
- More than $1.2B in cash, as of FYE 2022
- Returning cash to shareholders through share repurchases
Ciena’s Value Proposition 1 As cited by Omdia, Dell’Oro Group and Cignal AI for different markets.
The strong execution of our strategy: innovation leadership, diversification, and scale…
Lead
- Grow our optical infrastructure business by addressing fast-growing opportunities
- Maintain innovation leadership
- Pluggables as a new consumption model
- Increase international business
Disrupt
- Expand use cases and addressable markets
- Innovate and diversify across our Routing and Switching portfolio to address the emerging Next Gen Metro & Edge for 5G and cloud applications
Expand
- Drive digital transformation
- Automation of network operator environments using Blue Planet
- Execute services-led GTM model
…drives our differentiated ability to create and seize opportunities