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accession: "0000936395-25-000015"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CIEN"
cik: "0000936395"
company_name: "CIENA CORP"
filed_at: "2025-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T01:22:05.678458+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Ciena shareholders elect directors, ratify PwC, approve say-on-pay at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Directors Lawton W. Fitt (111.2M for, 10.2M against) and Devinder Kumar (116.7M for, 4.7M against) elected for three-year terms.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent auditor for fiscal 2025 passed with 124.98M for, 4.93M against.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation approved with 114.79M for, 6.60M against; broker non-votes of 8.46M on director and say-on-pay items.
- All three proposals passed by majority of votes cast at the March 27, 2025 meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000936395-25-000015
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CIEN
- cik: 0000936395
- company_name: CIENA CORP
- filed_at: 2025-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639525000015/0000936395-25-000015-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639525000015/cien-20250327.htm

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