Ciena Expands Global Presence with Middle East Deployment

Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ:

), the network specialist, today announced that Middle East telecommunications operator Etisalat Group has deployed Ciena's ActivSpan 4200 Advanced Services Platform for a major upgrade of its transport network in the United Arab Emirates (

). The new network provides Etisalat with a 40G national backbone, carrying packet/IP core traffic across more than 40 locations in the UAE.