What Ciena shipped in 2025

AI, data centers and digital infrastructure: Ciena's outlook for 2026

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping investment priorities in Latin America’s digital infrastructure, according to Ciena’s study, *Connectivity in the AI Era …

Scaling transport networks - The transition to Segment Routing

Network operators are increasingly transitioning from legacy transport technologies like MPLS-TP, RSVP-TE, and LDP to Segment Routing (SR) to meet the scalability, programmability, and simplicity dema…

The Ciena Insights Podcast

Verizon and Ciena have collaborated for over 30 years, recently achieving a major milestone with a metro network trial that reached speeds of 1.6 Tb/s on a single-carrier wavelength using Ciena's Wave…

AI to drive surge in data bandwidth: Ciena

Ciena predicts that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) will significantly increase global data bandwidth demand, necessitating upgrades in telecom infrastructure. The company highlight…

How wave services are evolving to fuel the data centre AI boom

The demand for high-capacity, low-latency connectivity is surging due to the AI boom, with wave services—dedicated, high-capacity optical fiber connections—emerging as a critical enabler for data cent…

Awards & recognitions

Ciena has received multiple industry awards in late 2025, highlighting its leadership in optical networking and data center solutions. The most notable recognitions include the Data Center Dynamics Aw…

Telstra International has unveiled its Autonomous Network vision as part of a five-year plan to enhance connectivity and innovation in the Asia-Pacific region. The initiative is driven by AI strategy

Optical networks: Powering AI innovation for neoscalers

Ciena highlights the emergence of 'neoscalers'—a new class of network operators driving the AI revolution by building advanced optical networks to support GPU-as-a-service, LLM operations, cloud/edge …

Episode 89: Preparing Submarine Cables for the Next Wave of Innovation

Bandwidth demand continues to grow, driven by AI, affecting both overland and undersea networks. Southern Cross, a submarine cable operator, is preparing for this AI-driven demand wave. CEO Laurie Mil…

Episode 88: Mastering MOFN—Lumen and Ciena experts share their insights

In Episode 88 of the Ciena Insights Podcast, experts from Lumen Technologies and Ciena discuss Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN), highlighting its benefits, business models, and emerging trends. A…

Episode 87: How Meta Reimagined OOB Management in the Data Center

Meta, in collaboration with Ciena, has reimagined out-of-band (OOB) management in data centers by adopting passive optical networking (PON). This change affects Meta's infrastructure network engineeri…

Episode 86: Building a Network Digital Twin in Real-Time

In Episode 86 of the Ciena Insights Podcast, Kailem Anderson from Blue Planet and Mark Bieberich from Ciena discuss the differences between Network Digital Twins and traditional network modeling. They…

Episode 85: CIOs and the AI era

In Episode 85 of the Ciena Insights Podcast, Bill Bragg, CIO at SymphonyAI, and Craig Williams, Chief Digital Information Officer at Ciena, discuss how AI is redefining the role of CIOs and transformi…

Ciena posts 40% sales jump in Q2 - Telecompaper

Ciena reported Q2 2025 revenue of $1.57B, a 40% year-over-year increase, surpassing its guidance and Wall Street expectations. Growth was led by a 47% rise in networking division sales, with platform …

Innovation in action: Building tomorrow’s photonic network today with Ciena’s 6500 RLS

Ciena has introduced the 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS), a next-generation photonic network platform designed to address the growing demands of AI-driven applications, hyperscalers, cloud opera…

Episode 84: Part 2—Quantum secure communications: Quantum Key Distribution and Post-Quantum Cryptography

In the second part of Episode 84 of the Ciena Insights Podcast, experts discuss Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms. They explore the principles, challenges, …