Ciena
Founders
Gary B. Smith - President & CEO
Stephen B. Alexander - Senior VP & CTO
David M. Rothenstein - Senior VP & General Counsel & Secretary
James E. Moylan, Jr. - Senior VP of Finance & CFO
Founded
1992
Stage
Early
Invested
1995
Status
Private
Lightspeed Team
Christopher Schaepe - Partner

Ciena collaborates with customers worldwide to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally change the way they perform and compete. With focused innovation, Ciena brings together the reliability and capacity of optical networking with the flexibility and economics of Ethernet, unified by services and software that delivers the industry’s leading network automation.

Christopher Schaepe
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