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CIEN vs INFN
Side-by-side comparison of Ciena Corporation (CIEN) and Infinera Corporation (INFN): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both CIEN and INFN operate in Telecommunications Equipment (Utilities), so they compete in similar markets.
- CIEN is the larger of the two at $69.03B, about 41.2x INFN ($1.67B).
- CIEN has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for INFN).
- CIEN has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 10 for INFN).
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.
Infinera Corporation
Infinera Corporation provides optical transport networking equipment, software, and services worldwide. The company's product portfolio includes Infinera Groove series for modular and sled-based platforms to support a various transport network applications; Infinera 7300 series, an SDN-ready coherent optical transport system; Infinera FlexILS open optical line system that connects various Infinera and third-party terminal equipment platforms over long-distance fiber optic cable providing switching, multiplexing, amplification, and management channels; and Infinera 7090 and 7100 series for transport platforms. It also offers Infinera XTM series, a packet-optical transport platform that enables metro connectivity solutions; Infinera XTC series, a multi-terabit packet optical transport platforms that integrates digital OTN switching and optical WDM transmission; Infinera mTera series, a network transport solution; and Infinera XT series, a platform that is designed to power cloud scale network services over metro, DCI, long-haul, and subsea networks. The company provides Infinera Cloud Xpress Family that is designed to meet the needs of internet content providers (ICPs), communication service providers, internet exchange service providers, enterprises, and other large-scale data center operators; Infinera DRX series for routers; and Infinera 8600 series for SDN-ready Internet Protocol/MPLS routers. It also offers Infinera CNOS, a hardware-independent network operating system; Transcend software suite; and system software and customer support services. The company also serves telecommunications service providers, ICPs, cable providers, wholesale carriers, research and education institutions, large enterprises, and government entities. It markets and sells its products and related support services primarily through its direct sales force. The company was formerly known as Zepton Networks. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Latest CIEN
- SEC Form 10-Q filed by Ciena Corporation
- Ciena Corporation filed SEC Form 8-K: Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Financial Statements and Exhibits
- Ciena Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
- President, CEO Smith Gary B sold $1,670,597 worth of shares (2,952 units at $565.92) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 269,557 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form SD filed by Ciena Corporation
- Biznet Enhances Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity with Ciena
- CORRECTING and REPLACING Cirion Launches Initial Phase of On-Demand NaaS Connectivity in Latin America with Ciena and Carma
- Cirion Launches Initial Phase of On-Demand NaaS Connectivity in Latin America with Ciena and Carma
- President, CEO Smith Gary B sold $1,659,175 worth of shares (2,952 units at $562.05) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 272,509 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP and Chief Strategy Officer Rothenstein David M sold $1,405,969 worth of shares (2,500 units at $562.39) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 190,081 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest INFN
- Penguin Solutions Strengthens AI Factory Platform Strategy with Appointment of David Heard to Board of Directors
- Amendment: SEC Form SCHEDULE 13G/A filed by Infinera Corporation
- SEC Form 15-12G filed by Infinera Corporation
- Amendment: SEC Form SCHEDULE 13G/A filed by Infinera Corporation
- Chief Executive Officer Heard David W returned 1,512,989 shares to the company and was granted 412,500 shares, closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- Director Milbury Paul J converted options into 36,697 shares and returned 229,628 shares to the company, closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- Director Lakkaraju Roop Kalyan converted options into 36,697 shares and returned 130,851 shares to the company, closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Financial Officer Erba Nancy was granted 117,500 shares and returned 693,722 shares to the company, closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 4 filed by Chief Legal Officer Macpherson Regan J
- Director Holt Sharon E converted options into 36,697 shares and returned 268,871 shares to the company, closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)