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Ciena

Telecom · Linthicum, United States · Founded 1992 · IPO 1997 Decacorn

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Valuation
$68B
Market cap · Apr/2026
Revenue
$4.77B
Latest reported FY

Investors

6 investors on Ciena's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Tap any card for that investor's profile.

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage
Sevin Rosen Funds
Lightspeed Venture Partners
InterWest Partners
Series B+ 3 investors entered at this stage
JAFCO
Vanguard Ventures
Bessemer Venture Partners

Global footprint

Where Ciena has talent and traffic

AI talent share
0.3% of workforce is AI talent
(35 of 10,357 staff)
Core AI80.08%
Other AI270.26%
Non-AI workforce10,32299.66%
Web traffic by country
500K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States25.2%
🇮🇳 India22.8%
🇨🇦 Canada19.3%
🇪🇬 Egypt3.9%
🇮🇩 Indonesia3.9%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$242M patent portfolio · 1,436 active families

Total estimated portfolio value via Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap), with quality scores compared against same-sector peers.

Estimated portfolio value
$242M
0.36% of market cap · 41.4× the top peer CradlePoint Technology ($6M)
1,436 active patent families
Where Ciena innovates Distributed computingReal-time computingNetwork elementLength waveCommunications system
Below peer median on Market

Quality vs same-sector peers

Ciena on the five Patsnap quality dimensions

Ciena in orange. Same-sector peers are the top filers by total patent value. All scores 0–100; higher is stronger.

Compare against

Patent quality scores (0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap

Tech-focus vs peers

Where Ciena concentrates inside the peer cluster

Axes are the most-shared Patsnap topics across Ciena and its top peers. Each polygon's reach on an axis = how prominent that topic is in that company's portfolio (#1 topic = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0).

Compare against

Top-topic prominence (rank inverted, 0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap top-10 topics per company

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