February 2023

2023 Lightwave Innovation Reviews

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February 2023

2023 Lightwave Innovation Reviews

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February 2023

2023 Lightwave Innovation Reviews

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September 2022

ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards 2022

Most Innovative Product Award for WaveLogic 5 Nano 400G Universal QSFP-DDRead more

September 2022

2022 Diamond Technology Awards

5132Category: Optical Transport/Carrier EthernetScore: 5/5 diamondsRead more

September 2022

2022 Diamond Technology Awards

8114Category: FTTH/Optical Access PlatformsScore: 4.5/5 diamondsRead more

September 2022

2022 Diamond Technology Awards

5131Category: FTTH/Optical Access PlatformsScore: 3.5/5 diamondsRead more

August 2022

Fiber Connect 2022 Game Changer Award

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November 2021

2022 Lightwave Innovation Reviews

December 2021

Vodafone Supplier Awards 2021

November 2021

Diamond Technology Reviews

September 2023

Cable Access Solution of the Year

September 2023

Optical Transport Award for Liquid Spectrum’s Photonic Performance Gauge

September 2023

Optical Transport Award

September 2023

Capacity Media’s Global Carrier Awards

November 2021

Diamond Technology Reviews

September 2023

Company of the Year

September 2023

Stevie Winner

American Business AwardsInformation Technology Department of the Year

September 2023

2020 Lightwave Innovation Reviews

September 2023

2019 MEF Awards

September 2023

2019 Diamond Technology Reviews

September 2023

2019 Fierce Innovation Awards

September 2023

NGON & DCI World Awards

Ciena took home the award for all-around ‘Best Data Center Connect Vendor’. The NGON & DCI Awards identifies achievements made by operators, data centers and solution providers in the optical networking industry.

September 2023

IEEE Honors Ceremony

The IEEE Honors Ceremony recognized Ciena for its WaveLogic 5 Extreme solution. IEEE recognizesexceptional achievements and outstanding contributions that have made a lasting impact on technology,society, and the engineering profession.

September 2023

Leading Lights Awards

Ciena was selected as Company of the Year (Public) by Light Reading in its annual Leading Lights Awards. This is awarded to the publicly listed firm that stands out from its competitors, innovates constantly, makes investors proud and employees happy.

September 2023

CRN's 2019 Women of the Channel Elite Power 100

CRN’s Power 100 spotlights female executives whose insight and influence help drive channel success. Sandra Glaser Cheek led the launch of the Ciena Partner Network program, which took a new collaborative and personalized approach that is designed to enable and reward all partners based on their unique business model.

September 2023

CRN’s 2019 Partner Program Guide 5-Star rating

For the fifth year in a row, Ciena was awarded a 5-Star rating for its partner program. The CRN Partner Program Guide identifies the strongest and most successful partner programs in the channel today, offered by the top technology suppliers for IT products and services. The 5-Star rating recognizes an elite subset of companies that offer solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

September 2023

2019 Lightwave Innovation Reviews

The 2019 Lightwave Innovation Reviews honored Ciena’s 8180 Coherent Networking Platform with a score of4.5/5. The judges commended that the 8180 is “A superb product that demonstrates clear and substantialbenefits.”

September 2023

Telecom Asia Readers' Choice & Innovation Awards

Ciena took home three awards, winning the Analytics Innovation of the Year category for the second consecutive year for Blue Planet/Packet Design solution, while the 6500 Reconfigurable Line System won the Optical Network Innovation of the Year and 5170 Service Aggregation Switch nabbed the Fixed Broadband Innovation of the Year category.

September 2023

2018 Utilities Technology Council (UTC) Awards

Ciena’s Blue Planet Analytics was awarded Software Product of the Year at the 2018 UTC Awards. The IMPACT Awards recognize companies making a great impact within the industry through innovative and proven solutions.

September 2023

Global Carrier Awards 2018

Ciena’s WaveLogic Ai won the award for ‘Best Network Technology Innovation’ at the 2018 Global Carrier Awards. Ciena was the first vendor to introduce a 400G solution into the market, and WaveLogic Ai is the only coherent solution that brought significant innovation to networks in the past year.

September 2023

TM Forum Live! Asia 2017 Catalyst Awards

The Ciena Blue Planet team and DGIT were awarded Outstanding Catalyst for Business Impact for a collaborative proof-of-concept titled “Partnering Platforms for MEF Services.” The Catalyst demonstration, which was championed by Telstra, Vodafone Group and Orange, showcased the use of open APIs to automate the activation of inter-carrier Ethernet services.

September 2023

MEF2017 Awards

Ciena’s Blue Planet solutions received top honors at this year’s Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Awards taking home the top prize in two categories. Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestration (MDSO) won for Service Orchestration, while Blue Planet Analytics (BPA) was honored with Service Analytics for the year.The MEF Awards program recognizes emerging dynamic network services, powered by Lifecycle Orchestration (LSO), NFV, SDN, and Carrier Ethernet.

September 2023

MEF Proof of Concept Showcase Awards

Ciena’s joint proof of concept (POC) demonstration with AT&T, Colt, Orange, Fujitsu and Amdocs received the top honor in the category of Layer 1 Multi-vendor LSO. The winning POC demonstrated flexible, software-centric, and multi-domain networks capable of scaling connectivity and cloud services on demand.This Award is given to the demonstration that best showcases agile, assured and orchestrated services delivered across a global ecosystem of automated networks.

September 2023

2017 Fierce Innovation Awards

Ciena’s WaveLogic Ai was selected as a winner in this year’s Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition, in the Next-Gen Deployments – Wireline category. A carrier-reviewed awards program, WaveLogic Ai was selected for being an innovative and industry leading product. All applications were reviewed by an exclusive panel of executives from major telecommunications companies, and were evaluated based on the following criteria: effectiveness, ease of use/ ROI, true innovation and end-user impact.

September 2023

2017 Telecom Asia’s Readers’ Choice & Innovation awards

At Telecom Asia’s 10th Readers’ Choice & Innovation awards, Ciena was honored with two awards: Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) received “SDN Innovation of the Year“ and Blue Planet Analytics (BPA) received “Analytics Innovation of the Year.” Telecom Asia narrowed down the nominations from readers for 21 categories to a shortlist of 90 entries, which represented 48 companies. Voters consisted of Telecom Asia’s subscriber base of service providers in Asia.

September 2023

2017 NGON & Optical DCI Awards

This year at the Next Generation Optical Networking and Optical DCI Awards, Ciena took home awards for ‘Best NFV Service Orchestration Implementation’ for Ciena’s D-NFV Solution, and ‘Best Optical Product - DCI/Short reach’ for Waveserver Ai. At NGON 2017, Ciena was the only vendor to take home multiple awards, and was selected by a panel of industry experts based on developing the most effective and innovative solutions for each respective category.

September 2023

CRN 2017 Partner Program Guide

p>For the third year in a row, Ciena has once again received the top honor of a 5-Star rating in The Channel Company’s CRN 2017 Partner Program Guide for its BizConnect partner program. This category encompasses ‘vendors that support Solution Providers marketing efforts’.

September 2023

2017 Lightwave Innovation Reviews

Ciena was acknowledged with two awards from the 2017 Lightwave Innovation awards; an panel of judges recognized Ciena's new WaveLogic Ai chipset with a perfect score of 5/5 stars in this year's Lightwave Innovation Reviews, and Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption solution scoring a 3.5/5. In the 2017 reviews, only four products received a 5 star rating across the entire spectrum of categories reviewed, Ciena’s WaveLogic Ai chipset being one of them for the category of Optical Transport Platforms. The judges commended WaveLogic Ai, noting that “These industry leading capabilities are needed by end-users and we salute Ciena for bring the WaveLogic Ai solution to market”.

September 2023

Ciena wins Vodafone Enterprise Supplier of the Year for Outstanding Delivery and Performance 2016

Vodafone’s Supplier Awards recognise outstanding performance in supporting its continuous drive for operating efficiency and delivering greater benefits to its Enterprise customers. On December 14th Ciena received the award for ‘Enterprise supplier of the year for outstanding delivery and quality performance’, the first enterprise award of its kind; highlighting the joint partnership, collaboration and combined expertise and technologies that harness Vodafone’s next-generation packet-optical network.

September 2023

Telecom Asia Readers' Choice & Innovation Awards 2016

Telecom Asia organizes the Readers’ Choice & Innovation Awards to recognize the advancements and contributions of the industry’s top vendors from around the region. At the 9th annual Telecom Asia Readers' Choice & Innovation Awards, Ciena won Optical Network Innovation of the Year for the 6500 WaveLogic Encryption solution. Telecom Asia said the awards reflect the strength and diversity of innovation in the Asia Pacific. Voting was open to Telecom Asia’s online subscriber base of service providers in early October.

September 2023

BTR’s Diamond Technology Reviews 2016

Ciena received two of the highest Diamond ratings from Broadband Technology Report’s 2016 Diamond Technology Reviews. Ciena’s Waveserver received a 4.5 diamond rating, praised for notable performance that provides clear and substantial benefits, along with the 3906mvi Service Virtualization Switch, which received a 5 Diamond rating for groundbreaking innovation and new levels of performance. Only two 5 Diamond ratings were awarded to products that ‘set new standards for performance and provide groundbreaking and new technical milestones’. For more information see here.

September 2023

MEF Excellence Awards 2016

For the first time at MEF16, the organization presented an award for the proof of concept (PoC) that ‘best demonstrates an implementation of agile, assured, and orchestrated Third Network services’. Of the fourteen demonstrations at MEF16, Ciena’s Blue Planet, along with collective partners Century Link and RAD, took home this first-time award. This was the first public demonstration of Ciena’s newly announced 3906mvi x86 Server Module and D-NFVI Software, which specializes in addressing challenges associated with Distributed NFV deployments, while working cohesively with Blue Planet.

September 2023

Waveserver earns "Panel's Special Prize" in the Carrier/ISP Network category

With more than 300 IT companies and organizations represented, Ciena’s Waveserver was presented with the “Panel’s Special Prize” in the Carrier/ISP Network Category on June 7 at Interop Tokyo 2016 – Japan’s largest network and service exhibit.

September 2023

2016 Utilities Technology Council (UTC) Awards

The UTC Awards pay tribute to the critical role of information and communications technologies in delivering essential energy and water services to communities throughout the world. At the 2016 awards Ciena took home the Impact Award for Hardware Product of the Year, which honors the UTC Associate Member Organizations making a great impact on the industry through an innovative and proven solution.

September 2023

CRN 2016 Partner Program Guide

Ciena’s BizConnect partner program has been recognized as one of the industry’s best, receiving a 5-Star rating in The Channel Company’s CRN 2016 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide is the go-to listing of technology vendors that service solution providers or provide products through the IT channel and the 5-Star rating is the highest attainable grade.

September 2023

Lightwave Innovation Awards 2016

The Lightwave Innovation Awards review and recognize optical communications technology, rating each entry on a scale of 0 to 5, the 5-star rating indicating an innovative new product that raises the bar for performance standards. Both the Waveserver Platform for data center interconnect (DCI) and 5430 Packet-Optical Platforms achieved a 4.5 rating, making them superb products that “set new standards for performance and provide groundbreaking and new technical milestones.” A panel of judges—each subject matter experts and influential network operators across the industry—selected this year’s winners.

September 2023

2015 Telecom Asia Readers’ Choice Awards

Each year Telecom Asia organizes the Readers’ Choice & Innovation Awards to recognize the advancements and contributions of the industry’s top vendors from around the region. At the 2015 awards Ciena’s Waveserver Data Center Interconnect Platform was recognized as the Data Center Innovation of the Year.

September 2023

2015 Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition

Ciena’s 5430 Packet-Optical Platform received the 2015 Fierce Innovation Award: Telecom Edition in the Wireline Core/Transport category. The 5430 makes hybrid packet OTN switching networks highly scalable, efficient and agile, paving the way toward virtualized, SDN-based architectures.  The award comes from the publishers of FierceWireless, FierceTelecom and FierceCable.

September 2023

Broadband Technology Report- Diamond Technology Reviews 2015

Announced in February 2015, Ciena’s 3905 Service Delivery Switch was awarded 4 out of 5 diamonds from Broadband Technology Report’s Diamond Technology Reviews. Ciena’s 3905 is a GbE-capable environmentally hardened platform that comes packed with deployment flexibility and simplicity features squarely in mind allowing for a market hungry to find an economical solution for wide-scale outdoor small cell mobile backhaul wholesale services. For more information see here.Small Cells Big Scale: Ciena’s 3905 achieves 4-star status with BTR AwardAnnounced in February 2015, Ciena’s 3905 Service Delivery Switch was awarded 4 out of 5 diamonds from Broadband Technology Report’s Diamond Technology Reviews. Ciena’s 3905 is a GbE-capable environmentally hardened platform that comes packed with deployment flexibility and simplicity features squarely in mind allowing for a market hungry to find an economical solution for wide-scale outdoor small cell mobile backhaul wholesale services.

September 2023

CRN 2015 Partner Program Guide

Ciena has been awarded a 5-Star rating in The Channel Company’s CRN 2015 Partner Program Guide. This annual directory is the definitive listing of technology vendors that service solution providers or provide products through the IT channel. The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes an elite subset of companies that offer the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

September 2023

Environmental Leader Product & Project Awards 2015

The Environmental Leader Product & Project Awards “recognize and honor companies making the biggest difference in the field of energy, environmental, and sustainability management.” Winning the Product of the Year award stands to cement the 8700 platform’s commitment to making cloud computing and data centers more energy efficient across the board. As one of the judges of the contest stated, “Great concept. It is clear that Ciena addresses the energy needs of a market that is going to get more important on a worldwide level, and thus the savings it brings will become more and more significant.”

September 2023

Lightwave Innovation Awards 2015

The Lightwave Innovation Awards review and recognize optical communications technology, rating each entry on a scale of 0 to 5, the 5-star rating indicating an innovative new product that raises the bar for performance standards. For Ciena, the 4.5 rating makes it one such superb product, one that “provides groundbreaking and new technical milestones.”

September 2023

2014 Telecom Asia Readers Choice & Innovation Award

Ciena and KVH were voted combined winners in the 2014 Telecom Asia Reader’s Choice and Innovation Awards, a program that recognizes technology innovations and accomplishments among leading Asia Pacific telecom vendors. The Carrier Ethernet Project of the Year went to KVH’s etherXEN service, which employs Ciena’s Z-Series packet-optical technology and Blue Planet SDN platform to deliver SDN-based burstable Ethernet service.

September 2023

Lightwave Innovation Award

Lightwave magazine recognized Ciena’s Blue Planet SDN Platform in the 2014 Lightwave Innovation Awards. A diverse group of independent judges rated Blue Planet with the second highest score overall (4.5 out of a possible 5 points) as an "Excellent product with technical features and performance that provide clear and substantial benefits". Blue Planet was the only SDN platform recognized in the competition.

September 2023

Best Network Technology Of The Year

Ciena has received the MEF 2014 Ethernet Excellence Award for Best Network Technology of the Year for the category with the most entries - Service Management/Orchestration. The Awards recognize new implementations that support scalability, virtual functionality, SDN, management, global reach and other solutions central to the delivery of Carrier Ethernet in 2014 and beyond.

September 2023

SDN Technology Of The Year

Ciena's Blue Planet has won the Network Virtualization Industry Award for "SDN Technology of the Year". Network Virtualization Industry Awards celebrate excellence in the telecoms industry and recognise the outstanding technologies developed for the NFV and SDN community in the last 12 months.

September 2023

Intel Network Builders Award

Ciena’s Planet Orchestrate was named a winner for its ability to demonstrate NFV-Enabled Ethernet Services, which is the orchestration of virtual network functions (VNFs) in distributed data centers on top of Ethernet services in a multi-vendor wide area network. The goal of the Intel Network Builders program is to make it easier to build, enhance, and operate SDN/NFV-based infrastructure, while lowering capital and operating expenditures.

September 2023

Top 10 finalist: best new telecom product

Ciena's Blue Planet Carrier Ethernet Services API has been nominated as a finalist for the 2014 Best New Telecom Product. Awarded to the company that has developed a potentially market-leading product that, through engineering and technical excellence, enables the deployment of profitable next-generation telecom services.

September 2023

NetEvents cloud innovation award

Ciena's Blue Planet has won this year’s NetEvents Cloud Innovation Award for the best “NFV Solution for Carriers”. The award was presented today by Michael Howard, Co-Founder & Principal Analyst, Infonetics Research, on behalf of the award’s independent judging panel of leading IT industry gurus and senior figures from the international technology press and industry analyst organizations around the globe.

September 2023

SDN innovation of the year

Ciena's Blue Planet SDN and NFV Orchestration Platform has won “SDN Innovation of the Year” in the 2013 Telecom Asia Readers’ Choice & Innovation Awards. Ciena's selection is based on Blue Planet’s market traction (over 100 deployments worldwide) and the platform’s ability to address multi-layer, multi-vendor WAN, data center, and NFV orchestration challenges for network operators.

September 2023

Best new telecom product

Ciena's Blue Planet SDN Platform has been named “Best New Telecom Product” by Light Reading at its annual Leading Lights Event in New York City last night. The Leading Lights program recognizes innovative companies and products that signal the direction of technology advances and have demonstrated significant traction in the market.