Ciena 100G Solution Receives R&D 100 Award

Published on Tuesday, 13 July 2010 09:07 Written by TradersHuddle Staff

LINTHICUM, Md.-( Business Wire )-

Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that its 100G coherent optical transmission solution is a winner of R&D Magazine’s 48^th Annual R&D 100 Awards, which honor the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace during the past year.

With the rapid growth of IP-connected devices – such as smartphones and tablets, and related applications and content – service providers face new bandwidth requirements and the need to ensure an optimal user experience while containing costs. To address these demands, Ciena developed and productized the world’s first 100G coherent optical solution, capable of supporting the largest traffic demands driven by emerging consumer, business and networking applications. Ciena’s agile and cost-effective 100G solution enables service providers to increase the bandwidth of existing 10G fiber network infrastructures by 10 times through simple plug-and-play technology components – without the need to re-engineer their networks or deploy new equipment.

Numerous major service providers and research and education customers worldwide have already completed successful trials and commercial deployments of Ciena’s 100G solution, including Comcast, JANET, SURFnet, Telstra, TelstraClear and Verizon.

To enable service providers to transport 40G and 100G wavelengths simply and cost-effectively across existing 10G fiber networks, Ciena developed several key technologies, including coherent detection, electronic dispersion compensation and Dual-Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DP-QPSK) modulation. In August 2008, the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) acknowledged the strong performance of this approach, selecting it as the recommended line modulation format for 100G data transmission. Ciena holds more than 20 patents related to its work in 100G optical transmission, in areas such as coherent optical receivers, electronic dispersion compensation and timing recovery, with additional patents pending.

“This recognition by R&D Magazine validates the innovative design, development and productization efforts that have contributed to the world’s first and only commercially deployed 100G coherent optical solution,” said Philippe Morin, senior vice president, global products group at Ciena. “Ciena’s 100G solution puts operators at a competitive advantage for the new communications era, ensuring the ability to easily and cost-effectively meet spiraling bandwidth demands while utilizing existing fiber and network equipment investments.”

Winners of the R&D 100 Awards are selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine, which serves research scientists, engineers and other technical staff at high-tech industrial companies and public and private laboratories worldwide. Since 1963, the R&D 100 Awards have identified revolutionary technologies, many of which have become household names, including HDTV, ATM and fax machines, halogen lamps and the anti-cancer drug Taxol.

About Ciena

Ciena specializes in practical network transition. We offer leading network infrastructure solutions, intelligent software and a comprehensive services practice to help our customers use their networks to fundamentally change the way they compete. With a global presence, Ciena leverages its heritage of practical innovation to deliver maximum performance and economic value in communications networks worldwide. We routinely post recent news, financial results and other important announcements and information about Ciena on our website. For more information, visit www.ciena.com.

About R&D Magazine

Since its founding in 1959 as Industrial Research, R&D Magazine has served research scientists, engineers and technical staff at laboratories around the world, providing timely, informative news and useful technical articles that broaden readers’ knowledge of the research and development industry and improve the quality of their work. R&D Magazine is a publication of Advantage Business Media (www.advantagebusinessmedia.com).

Note to Ciena Investors

Forward-looking statements. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof; and Ciena's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied, due to risks and uncertainties associated with its business, which include the risk factors disclosed in its Report on Form 10-Q, which Ciena filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 10, 2010. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Ciena's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future and can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or similar words. Ciena assumes no obligation to update the information included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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