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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Windstream Wholesale, a leader in optical technology and advanced network solutions, is proud to announce the successful completion of a groundbreaking industry-first trial of Ciena's (NYSE: CIEN) WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) 2x1.2Tb with 3x800G Wave services. This milestone, achieved in collaboration with Ciena, represents a significant leap forward in optical network innovation. The trial took place over a 1,590-kilometer route from Virginia Beach to Jacksonv.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Windstream Wholesale, a leader in advanced optical solutions, is proud to announce a significant infrastructure enhancement and network overbuild between Houston, Texas, and Tallahassee, Fla. Utilizing cutting-edge Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) line systems, this collaboration promises to deliver increased capacity, enhanced service capabilities, and improved network efficiency. This also enables Windstream Wholesale to offer 400G services over diverse routes to custome.

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Jim Moylan, who is retiring in August, is helping the networking equipment maker respond to tariffs, including imposing a surcharge for some customers.

Optical networking equipment supplier Ciena's (CIEN -2.23%) stock price has had a rough 2025, dropping 24% as of this writing. That may surprise some investors at first, considering its financial performance has improved in recent quarters.

Network trial paves the way for hyperscalers and enterprises to have the bandwidth agility and cost-efficiency needed for AI and next-gen applications DENVER , March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) and Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) have successfully established a 1.2 terabit wavelength service trial across 3,050 kilometers (more than 1,800 miles) on Lumen's Ultra-Low-Loss (ULL) fiber network, making it the world's longest 1.2 terabit non-regenerated signal. Using 800G interfaces, Lumen and Ciena successfully tested and qualified the services to support wavelength, Ethernet, and IP services over the 1.2 Tbps single carrier channel.

CIEN to unveil coherent optical and IMDD technologies at OFC 2025, boosting scalability and flexibility for cloud and AI-driven data center networks.

Ciena Corp CIEN shares were climbing Wednesday after the company announced upbeat fiscal first-quarter results.

Ciena's fiscal Q1 2025 performance is boosted by increasing market momentum across cloud and service providers. Blue Planet sales surge 87% year over year.

One group of stocks that has been punished during this current market downturn is telecoms. On Tuesday, they got little respite, on news of remarks from a top executive at one of their incumbent companies.