When the going gets tough, Ciena gets going
How do you find your customers when trade shows start drying up? Take the show booth to the customer. That’s Ciena’s idea, anyway, and while we know they’re not alone, they were the only ones to invite...
View ArticleRipped from the (Twitter) headlines: Ciena eyes Nortel optical/Carrier...
Ciena Corporation, a Maryland-based telecom equipment vendor, is chatting up bankrupt Nortel for its Optical Networking and Carrier Ethernet businesses, Nortel officials tweeted this afternoon. Nortel...
View ArticleGood MEN are hard to find: Ciena to pay $769M for Nortel’s CE/optical biz
From stalking horse to ponying up more than three quarters of a million bucks, Ciena will be taking home most of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business for $769 million, the companies...
View ArticleCiena OK’d for Nortel optical/CE biz, judges tell NSN ‘too little, too late’
So far, the bankruptcy court proceedings for auctioning off Nortel’s assets have been lacking some good old-fashioned courtroom drama for us in the peanut gallery. Competitor A puts in bid, Competitor...
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