Ciena Announces Preliminary Fiscal First Quarter 2022 Results - Seite 2

Reporting Date and Web Broadcast for Full Fiscal First Quarter 2022 Results

Ciena expects to announce full fiscal first quarter financial results on March 7, 2022, before the open of the financial markets via press release, which will be available on Ciena’s website at www.ciena.com. In conjunction with the announcement, Ciena will post a set of supporting materials to the Quarterly Results page of the Investor Relations section of its website. Ciena’s management will also host a live audio web broadcast on March 7, 2022, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, accessible via www.ciena.com. An archived version will be made available in the Events & Presentations section of the Investor Relations section of Ciena’s website.

About Ciena

Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is a networking systems, services and software company. We provide solutions that help our customers create the Adaptive Network in response to the constantly changing demands of their end-users. By delivering best-in-class networking technology through high-touch consultative relationships, we build the world’s most agile networks with automation, openness and scale. For updates on Ciena, follow us on Twitter @Ciena, LinkedIn, the Ciena Insights blog, or visit www.ciena.com.

Note to Investors

Forward-Looking Statements. You are encouraged to review the Investors section of our website, where we routinely post press releases, SEC filings, recent news, financial results, supplemental financial information, and other announcements. From time to time we exclusively post material information to this website along with other disclosure channels that we use. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on current expectations, forecasts, assumptions and other information available to the Company as of the date hereof. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Ciena's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future and can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or similar words. Forward-looking statements in this press release include Ciena’s expected results of operations for the fiscal first quarter of 2022 and for the full fiscal 2022, Ciena's visibility into the remainder of the year and the nature of the demand environment, including: "In our fiscal first quarter, we experienced several specific disruptions in the supply chain late in the quarter that exacerbated an already-challenging macro supply situation, which reduced our flexibility to fully mitigate these additional disruptions in the quarter"; "Nevertheless, we continue to see an unprecedented level of demand for our products and services, as evidenced by extraordinary orders growth and underpinned by an overall acceleration of cloud adoption and traffic growth"; "The combination of a very positive demand environment as well as expanding supply chain capacity aligned with increased visibility into the remainder of the year based on our order flow and backlog, provides us greater confidence in our ability to achieve our fiscal 2022 financial objectives"; and, "Accordingly, we continue to expect to achieve our revenue guidance of 11% to 13% annual growth for fiscal 2022."