CIENA Corporation to Webcast Annual Shareholder Meeting.

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LINTHICUM, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2003

CIENA Corporation Ciena Corporation NASDAQ: CIEN develops and markets communications network platforms and software, and offers professional services. The Company's broadband access, data and optical networking platforms, software tools, and global network services support worldwide telecom (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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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 intelligent optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. systems and software, will host a live webcast of its annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, March 12, 2003, beginning at 3:00 PM Eastern.

The webcast will be listen-only and will be accessible and archived for replay through Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at http://www.ciena.com/investors.

ABOUT CIENA

CIENA Corporation's market-leading optical networking systems form the core for the new era of networks and services worldwide. CIENA's LightWorks(TM) architecture enables next-generation optical services and changes the fundamental economics of service-provider networks by simplifying the network and reducing the cost to operate it. Additional information about CIENA can be found at http://www.ciena.com.

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