On the Record · Ciena
Ciena competitors, on the record
The companies Ciena names as competitors in its annual reports, 2023 to 2025, and the companies that name Ciena, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Ciena names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Amdocs | 2025 |
| Broadcom | 2025 |
| Cisco | 2025 |
| Credo Technology Group | 2025 |
| Ericsson | 2025 |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 2025 |
| Huawei | 2025 |
| Marvell Technology Group | 2025 |
| Netcracker | 2025 |
| Nokia | 2025 |
| ServiceNow | 2025 |
| ZTE | 2025 |
In its own words
Amdocs, Ericsson, Netcracker, ServiceNow
Word for word“Competitors for our Blue Planet Automation Software include Cisco, Nokia, Amdocs, ServiceNow, Netcracker, and Ericsson.” 10-K for 2025
Broadcom, Credo Technology Group, Marvell Technology Group
Word for word“In addition, as we advance our interconnects and market expansion strategy to address needs inside and around the data center, we will begin to compete with additional competitors, including Marvell Technology Group, Credo Technology Group, and Broadcom.” 10-K for 2025
Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Nokia, ZTE
Word for word“Our competitors include Nokia, Huawei, Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and ZTE.” 10-K for 2025
Who names Ciena
Companies whose own annual reports name Ciena as a competitor.
Word for word“In the Subscriber Solutions category, our primary competitors include Calix, Ciena, Nokia, eero, RAD, and a growing number of Asian based ODM's selling direct to carriers.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“network equipment providers such as Ciena, Ericsson, Huawei, and Nokia, (some of whom we also cooperate with in certain opportunities and projects and some of whom also have BSS/OSS offerings); and” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“Vendors with which we may compete include: ADTRAN Holdings, Inc.; Ciena Corporation; CommScope Holding Company, Inc.; eero/Ring (Amazon companies); Harmonic Inc.; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Nokia Corporation; Plume Design, Inc. and Ubiquiti Inc.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our competitors (in each case relative to only some of our products or services) include: Amazon Web Services LLC; Arista Networks, Inc.; Broadcom Inc.; Ciena Corporation; CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Datadog Inc.; Dell Technologies Inc.; Dynatrace Inc.; Fortinet, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nvidia Corporation; Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; RingCentral, Inc.; Zoom Video Communications, Inc.; and Zscaler, Inc.; among others.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Our primary competitors are technology vendors, such as Cisco Systems, Inc., Arista Networks Inc, Nokia Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Ciena Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, Extreme Networks, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Inc., Zscaler, Inc., Netskope, Inc., Ruckus Networks, and Ubiquiti and networking-as-a-service vendors such as Nile and Meter.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“In the long-haul market, our main competitors include DWDM systems suppliers such as Ciena and Nokia, as well as China-based suppliers Huawei and ZTE.” 10-K for 2024
Read from Ciena’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2025-12-12. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.