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CIEN vs IDT

Side-by-side comparison of Ciena Corporation (CIEN) and IDT Corporation (IDT): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • CIEN operates in Utilities, while IDT operates in Telecommunications - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • CIEN is the larger of the two at $75.74B, about 54.4x IDT ($1.39B).
  • Over the past year, CIEN is up 632.4% and IDT is down 7.4% - CIEN leads by 639.8 points.
  • CIEN has been more active in the news (14 items in the past 4 weeks vs 7 for IDT).
  • CIEN has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 0 for IDT).
PerformanceCIEN+632.39%IDT-7.45%
2025-06-05+0.00%2026-06-04
MetricCIENIDT
Company
Ciena Corporation
IDT Corporation
Price
$535.52-13.70%
$55.49+2.65%
Market cap
$75.74B
$1.39B
1M return
-1.71%
+5.89%
1Y return
+632.39%
-7.45%
Industry
Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunications Equipment
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
1997
News (4w)
14
7
Recent ratings
25
0
CIEN

Ciena Corporation

Ciena Corporation provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, routing, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking products and solutions that optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network switching, and packet switching. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms, as well as Z-Series Packet-Optical Platform; 3000 family of service delivery switches and service aggregation switches, and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and the Ethernet packet configuration for the 5410 Service Aggregation Switch; and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products. The company's Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, network function virtualization orchestration, analytics, and related services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers OneControl unified management system and platform software services, as well as manage, control, and plan software. The company's Global Services segment provides consulting and network design, installation and deployment, maintenance support, and training services. The company sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to network operators. Ciena Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.

IDT

IDT Corporation

IDT Corporation operates in the communications and payment industries in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Telecom & Payment Services, and net2phone. The Telecom & Payment Services Services segment offers national retail solutions, such as point of sale network; mobile top-up; and carrier services, as well as an international money remittance service and international long-distance calling service under the BOSS Revolution brand name. The net2phone segment provides Unified Communications as a Service, a cloud communications service for businesses; and cable telephony services under the net2phone brand name. IDT Corporation was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

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