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CIEN vs FKWL

Side-by-side comparison of Ciena Corporation (CIEN) and Franklin Wireless Corp. (FKWL): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both CIEN and FKWL operate in Telecommunications Equipment (Utilities), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CIEN is the larger of the two at $62.19B, about 1898.3x FKWL ($32.8M).
  • Over the past year, CIEN is up 497.9% and FKWL is down 33.6% - CIEN leads by 531.4 points.
  • CIEN has been more active in the news (16 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for FKWL).
  • CIEN has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 0 for FKWL).
PerformanceCIEN+500.11%FKWL-33.57%
2025-06-11+0.00%2026-06-10
MetricCIENFKWL
Company
Ciena Corporation
Franklin Wireless Corp.
Price
$434.49-1.06%
$2.77-1.95%
Market cap
$62.19B
$32.8M
1M return
-25.49%
-25.34%
1Y return
+497.88%
-33.57%
Industry
Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunications Equipment
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
1997
News (4w)
16
1
Recent ratings
25
0
CIEN

Ciena Corporation

Ciena Corporation provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, routing, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking products and solutions that optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network switching, and packet switching. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms, as well as Z-Series Packet-Optical Platform; 3000 family of service delivery switches and service aggregation switches, and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and the Ethernet packet configuration for the 5410 Service Aggregation Switch; and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products. The company's Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, network function virtualization orchestration, analytics, and related services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers OneControl unified management system and platform software services, as well as manage, control, and plan software. The company's Global Services segment provides consulting and network design, installation and deployment, maintenance support, and training services. The company sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to network operators. Ciena Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.

FKWL

Franklin Wireless Corp.

Franklin Wireless Corp. provides intelligent wireless solutions. The company's products include mobile hotspots, routers, trackers, and other devices, which integrates hardware and software enabling machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and the Internet of Things (IoT). It offers M2M and IoT solutions, which include embedded modules, and modems and gateways built to deliver connectivity supporting various spectrum of applications based on 5G/4G wireless technology. The company directly markets its products to wireless operators, as well as indirectly through strategic partners and distributors located primarily in the North America, the Caribbean and South America, and Asia. Franklin Wireless Corp. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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