CIENA Appoints New Head of China Operations; Appointment Reaffirms CIENA's Long-Term Commitment To Mainland China.Business Editors HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2003 CIENA(R) Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CIEN CIEN Ciena Corporation (stock symbol) ), a leading provider of global network solutions, today announced the appointment of Dr. Jianhui Zhou to the position of Vice President and General Manager, China. Dr. Zhou was previously CIENA's vice president of product management, responsible for managing the Company's portfolio of metro products. Gary Smith Gary Smith may refer to:
Dr. Zhou's appointment is an indication of CIENA's steady progress in the mainland China market, following the opening of a representative office in Beijing in December 2002. Dr. Zhou will be responsible for CIENA's distributor relationships and business development programs, and will also assume overall responsibility for the sales and marketing of CIENA's network solutions to key Chinese telecom operators. Dr. Zhou has held senior R&D management positions at Lucent Technologies, where he led the company's efforts in developing DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing system products, and received the prestigious Bell Labs President's Gold Award. He is a graduate of China's prestigious Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Brief history of BUPT The Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (BIPT) was founded in 1955 under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Communications Department of the General Staff Department of the PLA. . He holds a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. , and several patents in the area of optical communications Optical communications The transmission of speech, data, video, and other information by means of the visible and the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. . ABOUT CIENA CIENA Corporation delivers innovative network solutions to the world's largest service providers, increasing the cost-efficiency of current services while enabling the creation of new carrier-class data services built upon the existing network infrastructure. Additional information about CIENA can be found at www.ciena.com. |
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