Commitment to excellence over the past year has earned Ciena®
Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, recognition as a
2013 AT&T Supplier Award winner for its support of affiliates of AT&T*,
one of the world’s leading data, voice, wireless and Internet services
providers.
“We are proud of our long-standing tradition of providing unparalleled,
innovative products and services to our business and residential
customers,” said Tim Harden, president of AT&T Supply Chain and Fleet
Operations. “We’re successful on that front in large part thanks to
extraordinary suppliers like Ciena that consistently go above and
beyond, exceeding our expectations and helping exceed those of our
customers as well.”
Ciena was one of only six suppliers to receive the 2013 AT&T Supplier
Award for its work in helping AT&T deliver outstanding service to its
customers during the past year. Ciena was recognized for its
contributions across a broad scope of criteria including creative cost
management solutions, teamwork, customer service, product/service
performance, sustainability, and supplier diversity results.
“We are incredibly honored to once again receive this recognition from
AT&T, a long-time strategic collaborator with Ciena,” said Gary Smith,
president and CEO at Ciena. “For more than 15 years, including as a
provider in multiple network domains, we have worked with AT&T to help
them meet the ever growing demands on their network and deliver
world-class services to their customers. As the next shift in network
architecture gets underway, we look forward to continuing our
collaborative efforts with AT&T to drive network innovation.”
As part of its annual Supplier Award Program, AT&T took out a half-page
ad in the May 14 edition of The Wall Street Journal to publicly
thank the selected companies.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries
and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
About Ciena
Ciena is the network specialist. We collaborate with customers worldwide
to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally
change the way they perform and compete. Ciena leverages its deep
expertise in packet and optical networking and distributed software
automation to deliver solutions in alignment with OPn, its
approach for building open next-generation networks. We enable a
high-scale, programmable infrastructure that can be controlled and
adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to
coordinate computing, storage and network resources in a unified,
virtualized environment. We routinely post recent news, financial
results and other important announcements and information about Ciena on
our website. For more information, visit www.ciena.com.
Note to Ciena Investors
Forward-looking statements. This press release contains certain
forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts and
assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are
based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof; and
Ciena's actual results could differ materially from those stated or
implied, due to risks and uncertainties associated with its business,
which include the risk factors disclosed in its Report on Form 10-Q,
which Ciena filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March
13, 2013. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding
Ciena's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the
future and can be identified by forward-looking words such as
"anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may,"
"should," "will," and "would" or similar words. Ciena assumes no
obligation to update the information included in this press release,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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