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CIEN vs SHEN

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

Summary

  • CIEN operates in Utilities, while SHEN operates in Telecommunications - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • CIEN is the larger of the two at $87.72B, about 100.4x SHEN ($873.5M).
  • Over the past year, CIEN is up 640.0% and SHEN is up 23.0% - CIEN leads by 617.0 points.
  • CIEN has been more active in the news (11 items in the past 4 weeks vs 7 for SHEN).
  • CIEN has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 12 for SHEN).
PerformanceCIEN+640.01%SHEN+22.98%
2025-06-04+0.00%2026-06-03
MetricCIENSHEN
Company
Ciena Corporation
Shenandoah Telecommunications Co
Price
$620.57-1.12%
$15.81-2.50%
Market cap
$87.72B
$873.5M
1M return
+15.22%
+0.57%
1Y return
+640.01%
+22.98%
Industry
Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunications Equipment
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
1997
News (4w)
11
7
Recent ratings
25
12
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.

SHEN

Shenandoah Telecommunications Co

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides a range of broadband communication services and cell tower colocation space in the Mid-Atlantic portion of the United States. Its Broadband segment offers broadband, video, and voice services to residential and commercial customers in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, via hybrid fiber coaxial cable under the Shentel brand, fiber optic services under the Glo Fiber brand, and fixed wireless network services under the Beam brand name. This segment also leases fiber and provides Ethernet and wavelength fiber optic services; and voice and digital subscriber line telephone services. The company's Tower segment owns 225 cell towers and leases colocation space on the towers. Shenandoah Telecommunications Company was founded in 1902 and is based in Edinburg, Virginia.

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