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Ciena Introduces New Product Branding

Announcement posted by Ciena 19 Oct 2010

Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today introduced new product designations for select members of its product portfolio.

Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today introduced new product designations for select members of its product portfolio.

The naming updates reflect the branding unification of the company’s newly transformed portfolio, and will begin to appear in product documentation and artwork, corporate collateral and company communications during the next several months.

Specifically, Ciena has dropped alphabetical prefixes (i.e. “CN” 4200 and “OME” 6500) in favor of the ‘Activ’ nomenclature.  The below list reflects the updated product names in their respective product groupings. NOTE: Products not appearing on this list were not included in the branding update, however they remain active members of the product portfolio.

Packet-Optical Switching

Old Name

New Name

5430 Reconfigurable Switching System

ActivFlex 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System 

5410 Reconfigurable Switching System

ActivFlex 5410 Reconfigurable Switching System

Packet-Optical Transport

Old Name

New Name

Optical Multiservice Edge 6500

ActivFlex 6500 Packet-Optical Platform 

Optical Metro 6110

ActivFlex 6110 Multiservice Optical Platform

Optical Metro 6130

ActivFlex 6130 Multiservice Optical Platform

Optical Metro 6150

ActivFlex 6150 Multiservice Optical Platform

CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform

ActivSpan 4200 Advanced Services Platform

Optical Metro 565

ActivSpan 565

Optical Metro 5100

ActivSpan 5100

Optical Metro 5200

ActivSpan 5200

Common Photonic Layer

ActivSpan Common Photonic Layer

Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery

Old Name

New Name

CN 3180 Multiservice Delivery Switch

ActivEdge 3180 Multiservice Delivery Switch

CN 3181 Multiservice Delivery Switch

ActivEdge 3181 Multiservice Delivery Switch

CN 3190 Multiservice Delivery Switch

ActivEdge 3190 Multiservice Delivery Switch

CN 3911 Service Delivery Switch

ActivEdge 3911 Service Delivery Switch

CN 3920 Service Delivery Switch

ActivEdge 3920 Service Delivery Switch

CN 3940 Service Delivery Switch

ActivEdge 3940 Service Delivery Switch

CN 3960 Service Delivery Switch

ActivEdge 3960 Service Delivery Switch

CN 5140 Service Aggregation Switch

ActivEdge 5140 Service Aggregation Switch

CN 5150 Service Aggregation Switch

ActivEdge 5150 Service Aggregation Switch

CN 5305 Service Aggregation Switch

ActivEdge 5305 Service Aggregation Switch

5410 Service Aggregation Switch

ActivEdge 5410 Service Aggregation Switch