Ciena corporate overview (updated June 2015)

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A View into Ciena’s Strategic Direction

June 2015

Converged packet-optical and Ethernet platforms

Network control software and applications

Professional services and technical services

1,300+ customers across

North America, CALA, EMEA and APAC

Serving 80% of the world’s largest

service providers

Aiding government, web-scale providers,

Fortune 2000 enterprises, and other

private network operators

5,000+ employees in 80+ countries

We enable cloud services on-demand by driving an ecosystem for open software control and by building the programmable packet-optical network to deliver those services

CIENA HELPS FACILITATE ON-DEMAND BUSINESS MODELS SO YOU CAN THRIVE IN A WEB-SCALE WORLD

Lessons learned from early adopters of web-scale IT are now being broadly applied mainstream—driving an accelerated rate of change.

Our business is designed from the bottom up to let you apply web-scale philosophies to your network.

APPROACH OPn ® ARCHITECTURE IMPLEMENTATION

APPROACH OPn ARCHITECTURE IMPLEMENTATION

Openness is enabled by focus

Ecosystems are built on relationships

Virtualization requires specialist innovation

RELATIONSHIPS FOCUS INNOVATION

TRANSFORMING CAPACITY TO ON-DEMAND CAPABILITY

SCALE PROGRAMMABILTY

NETWORK APPS


OPn Architecture enables web-scale capabilities

SERVICES LAYER

CONTROL LAYER

INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER

ORCHESTRATION

CONTENT SERVICE SYSTEMS

COMPUTE SERVICE SYSTEMS

CONNECT SERVICE SYSTEMS

BILLING SYSTEMS

OPEN INTERFACES

CIENA NETWORK APPLICATIONS

CUSTOMER APPLICATIONS

PARTNER APPLICATIONS

3RD PARTY APPLICATIONS

SDN CONTROLLER

Connect Users to Content Connect Content to Content


An extensive team of specialists, flexible resources, and customized analyses to maximize your network investment

CIENA SPECIALIST SERVICES

Software Converged Packet Optical

Packet Networking

Optical Transport

Network control software and applications to address

dynamic demands for network resources; software

for enabling virtualized network functions as on-

demand services

A family of plug-and-play coherent 40/100G+

transport with automated, multi-terabit packet, OTN

and SONET/SDH switching

Highly flexible, cost-effective

packet-based access and aggregation switches

Field-proven WDM platforms for high capacity and high reliability in a wide

variety of applications


Ciena’s portfolio

Our strategic choices are resonating in a changing environment, and as a result we’re leading the shift to a web-scale world.

Dell’Oro Group Optical Networks Report, 1Q 2015

CEAP Quarterly Market Tracker, Nov 2014

Data Center Interconnect Market Share Report, FY2014

PACKET OPTICAL

PACKET OPTICAL

METRO WDM

NEXT-GEN TRANSPORT & SWITCHING

NEXT-GEN TRANSPORT & SWITCHING

DATA CENTER INTERCONNECT 2Q14 – 1Q15

DATA CENTER INTERCONNECT FOR ICPs 2Q14 - 1Q15

#1 GLOBALLY

#1 N. AMERICA

#1 GLOBALLY

#2 GLOBALLY

#1 N. AMERICA

#1 GLOBALLY

#1 GLOBALLY

DATA CENTER INTERCONNECT #1 GLOBALLY

CARRIER ETHERNET ACCESS

CARRIER ETHERNET ACCESS

#1 N. AMERICA

#2 GLOBALLY

Optical Equipment Vendor Leadership, Global Service Provider Survey, November 2014

Coherent optics with 40G and

100G solutions

OTN control plane on an

optical switch

Carrier Ethernet

aggregation switch

supporting a virtualized switching

architecture

Intelligent optical

core switch

Packet-optical convergence

platform

100G transport SDN testbed

adopting OpenFlow

and an open source

controller

Multi-layer, multi-vendor

transport SDN controller based on

OpenDaylight

CIENA HOLDS 2,000+ PATENTS WORLDWIDE

1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st

Overall Optical Supplier

Optical Transmission and Switching

Packet Optical Transport SDN and Control Plane

CIENA NAMED #1:

SDN/NFV Innovation of the Year Agility software portfolio

Fierce Innovation Awards 8700 Packetwave Platform

Next Generation Optical Networking Awards

Best Optical Submarine Product - GeoMesh

BTR 5-Diamond Innovation Award 8700 Packetwave Platform

Light Reading’s Leading Lights Award

Best New Product – WaveLogic Photonics

Cable Spotlight Product of the Year Award

5160 Aggregation Switch

AWARDS

2015 Lightwave Innovation Awards

8700 Packetwave Platform 4.5 out of 5 stars

2015 Environmental Leader Product & Project Awards 8700 Packetwave Platform

Carrier Network Virtualization Awards

SDN Innovation Award of the Year

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Significantly faster-than-market growth (11% revenue growth over Q2 2014) Nearly doubled adjusted operating margin (11% versus 6% in Q2 2014)

Record orders that were meaningfully greater than revenue

28% increase in profitability

Allowing you to thrive and compete differently no matter your market

or mission

The web-scale effect is driving changes for all

kinds of networks

Ciena is designed to empower you with the

capabilities required in a web-scale world

AT&T

DISA

ALLSTREAM

SPRINT

CENTURY LINK

TELUS

COX DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

VERIZON

BELL CANADA

INTERNET2

LEVEL 3

NASA

ROGERS

TIME WARNER CABLE

CANARIE ZAYO XO

COMCAST

EQUINIX

FIBERTECH INTEGRA

CONTINUUM

NORTH AMERICA

HIBERNIA NETWORKS

METRORED TELECOM ARGENTINA

TELMEX

VIVO TELEFONICA

ARSAT CABLE & WIRELESS PANAMÁ

TELESUR

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VTR

CALA

AAPT

SOUTHERN CROSS

NTT PCCW GLOBAL CLOUD

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PLDT VODAFONE SINGTEL

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SURFNET EUNETWORKS NORDUNET

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EMEA

VIRGIN MEDIA

BITCO TELIASONERA

Validated by independent labs & customers

Ihab Tarazi, Chief Technology Officer | Equinix

“Customers are looking to expand their networks globally and require high-speed connections within a metro, or globally, between our IBX data centers. With Ciena, we can offer customers a dynamic and automated interface to the hundreds of network and cloud service providers inside our data centers and meet their needs for next-generation connectivity solutions.”

Eli D. Scher, Chairman and CEO | Contiuum Data Centers

“To meet the demands of our customers, we knew we needed to enhance our network with a highly scalable, best-in-class packet optical solution. Ciena’s 6500 platform is a crucial part of our strategy to provide reliable, cost-effective, high-bandwidth connectivity for data center interconnect and carrier-grade services.”

David Cote, Manager of Network Engineering & Telecommunications | Saint Francis Care

“The Ciena solution means more efficient patient management and better patient satisfaction. We can deliver a network that guarantees uptime, enables better redundancy, and increases data and application speed.”

Dr. Michael Langer, Director Network Engineering | UnityMedia KabelBW

“Demand is growing for broadband-intensive entertainment such as music and video streaming, downloading, multimedia content and online video games. With Ciena’s platform we are tailoring our network to customer needs and have a flexible, scalable architecture which can adapt dynamically if requirements change.”

“Our 100G nationwide network coupled with Ciena’s Digital Video Transport solution allows us to deliver uncompressed digital video in its native format at extremely high speeds and helps the media and entertainment industry more efficiently transport and manage video content while helping keep costs down.” Don MacNeil, Chief Marketing Officer | XO Communications

Shannon Silvus, CTO & VP Operations | CapeNet

“A strategic supplier with proven leadership.”

“Offers us the portfolio needed to build and expand our network.”

Conal Henry, CEO | e|net

Chris Campbell, Manager of Communications Engineering | Salt River Project

“This upgrade enables us to modernize our network with greater automation and reliability so that we can accommodate our customer’s demands for high-bandwidth services and applications.”

“This network will increase grid reliability and enable Smart Grid communications.”

Peter Shumlin | Governor of Vermont