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accession: "0001628280-25-055133"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CIEN"
cik: "0000936395"
company_name: "CIENA CORP"
filed_at: "2025-12-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T15:00:19.386224+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ciena enters renewed change in control severance agreements with executives through Nov 2028

## Summary
- Effective Nov 30, 2025, Ciena entered revised change in control severance agreements with CEO Gary Smith, CFO Marc Graff, and other named executives.
- Terms substantially equivalent to prior agreements; severance benefits unchanged; fixed term through Nov 30, 2028.
- Clarifications include integration with Executive Compensation Clawback Policy and Section 409A compliance.
- Previous three-year agreements expired on Nov 30, 2025; renewal is part of standard three-year review cycle.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-055133
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CIEN
- cik: 0000936395
- company_name: CIENA CORP
- filed_at: 2025-12-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000162828025055133/0001628280-25-055133-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000162828025055133/cien-20251130.htm

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