Topic: Ciena

Ciena Corporation has announced the appointment of Grant Hoffman as Chief Supply Chain Officer and the transition of Brodie Gage to Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). Both report to President and CEO Gary Smith and serve on the company’s Executive Leadership Team.

Blue Planet, a division of Ciena, is closing the governance gap in network operations by unveiling Blue Planet Configuration and Change Management (CCM), unifying device configuration, change, and lifecycle management across multi-vendor networks. Backed by Blue Planet’s deep Operations Support System (OSS) expertise, CCM replaces fragmented tools and manual processes with AI-driven workflows to reduce risk, prevent outages, and strengthen the foundation for autonomous networking.