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Ciena CEO who survived the telecom bust tells WSJ the AI boom is different

Gary Smith has been Ciena CEO since May 2001, and led the company through the telecom crash that followed the fibre boom. He says today’s AI build-out is a different kind of cycle, the optical networking company’s chief executive told Steven Rosenbush of The Wall Street Journal. “Having lived throu…

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  1. 2026-10-26 16:57 · The Next Web
    Ciena CEO who survived the telecom bust tells WSJ the AI boom is different

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