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CIENA TO UNVEIL GROWING PORTFOLIO OF NETWORK SOLUTIONS

CIENA Corporation, a leading provider of innovative network solutions, will highlight its LightWorks Services initiative at ITU Telecom World 2003, complete with product displays and temporary relocation of corporate headquarters operations to the event's Telecom Village, an exclusive office park built within the general exhibition.

CIENA will participate in ITU Telecom World 2003 at the Geneva Palexpo from Oct. 12-18. CIENA's presence in the Telecom Village will include corporate offices, a product laboratory, application kiosks and a hospitality lounge. Guests are invited to join company executives and product specialists to hear more about LightWorks Services, CIENA's strategy for helping service providers use their existing infrastructure to make current services more profitable while also capitalizing on new enterprise data service markets -- without having to build and manage overlay data networks.

CIENA's Telecom Village building also will host strategic partners Laurel Networks and Luminous Networks, who are helping expand CIENA's suite of solutions and its ability to provide enhanced value through extended, integrated network solutions. Visitors will learn how these relationships strengthen CIENA's value proposition for comprehensive, next-generation networking solutions, further improving the economics of network ownership and allowing carriers to evolve their infrastructure for more profitable data services on one unified, automated network.

CIENA will display its portfolio of innovative network solutions, including CoreDirector CI, CoreStream, MetroDirector K2, ONLINE Metro, ONLINE Edge, DN 7000 and CN 2000 Storage Extension Platform (formerly known as OUSP 2000), plus the Luminous PacketWave platform and Laurel ST200 Service Edge Router. The product laboratory will illustrate how CIENA helps carriers increase margins on current services and grow revenue by offering new, reliable data services using the existing infrastructure.

"CIENA is committed to improving customer value and helping service providers capitalize on new market opportunities, which is illustrated by our aggressive moves to integrate leading data networking technologies across our solutions," said Francois Locoh-Donou, vice president of marketing at CIENA. "ITU Telecom World is an ideal venue for CIENA to effectively communicate to our customers the economic advantages of the LightWorks Services approach, as well as to showcase the compelling benefits of an automated network solution."