What Happened?
Hanover, MD-based Ciena Corporation has Promoted Hector Silva as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Ciena Corporation is a global manufacturer of communications network equipment and solutions, with expertise in Packet-Optical Transport, Packet-Optical Switching, Carrier Ethernet, and Network Support Services. Many of the world’s largest carriers and service providers have deployed Ciena solutions in their network; including AT&T, BT, Cable & Wireless, CenturyLink, Comcast, France Telecom, Korea Telecom, Sprint, Reliance, Southern Cross, Tata Communications, Telecom Argentina, Telmex, Virgin Media and Verizon. Ciena also counts numerous national research and education networks as customers, as well as enterprises in the healthcare, finance, transportation and retail industries for real-time, latency sensitive applications such as disaster recovery/business continuity, SAN/LAN extension, data center consolidation and grid computing. We specialize in helping customers transition to service driven networks that fundamentally change the way they compete. With expertise in optical and Ethernet networking, Ciena combines software-programmable hardware, a common operating system, and unified service and transport management to enable our customers to adapt and scale with any emergent business model.
About the Person
With more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications and technology space, Hector Silva will lead Ciena's network architecture teams in CALA and work alongside local sales teams to guide the company's customers on existing trends like cloud computing and mobile video as well as emerging technologies like software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). He will also provide strategic counsel to help operators prepare for and implement new network architectures based on Ciena's OPn network approach that leverages the company's expertise in optical, packet and software to enable greater network intelligence, automation and application awareness. Mr. Silva will be based in the company's CALA offices in South Florida. Prior to this role, he held several leadership positions in systems engineering and strategic sales at Ciena. Mr. Silva has played a key part in the company's ability to penetrate new markets such as Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, to introduce new technologies, and to build strong relationships based on technical expertise, trust and consultancy.
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