Ciena Corporation, founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hanover, Maryland, is a global provider of networking solutions. The company specializes in delivering the hardware, software, and professional services required to efficiently transport, route, switch, aggregate, deliver, and manage video, data, and voice traffic across communication networks worldwide. Its "Networking Platforms" division focuses on developing hardware products and solutions optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network (OTN) switching, and packet switching technologies.