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CIEN vs REKR

Side-by-side comparison of Ciena Corporation (CIEN) and Rekor Systems Inc. (REKR): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • CIEN operates in Utilities, while REKR operates in Telecommunications - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • CIEN is the larger of the two at $73.64B, about 620.8x REKR ($118.6M).
  • Over the past year, CIEN is up 683.7% and REKR is down 13.5% - CIEN leads by 697.2 points.
  • CIEN has hit the wire 4 times in the past 4 weeks while REKR has been quiet.
  • CIEN has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 1 for REKR).
PerformanceCIEN+683.69%REKR-13.49%
2025-04-28+0.00%2026-04-24
MetricCIENREKR
Company
Ciena Corporation
Rekor Systems Inc.
Price
$520.84+0.98%
$0.87+3.31%
Market cap
$73.64B
$118.6M
1M return
+18.98%
-1.29%
1Y return
+683.69%
-13.49%
Industry
Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunications Equipment
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
1997
News (4w)
4
0
Recent ratings
25
1
CIEN

Ciena Corporation

Ciena Corporation provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, routing, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking products and solutions that optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network switching, and packet switching. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms, as well as Z-Series Packet-Optical Platform; 3000 family of service delivery switches and service aggregation switches, and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and the Ethernet packet configuration for the 5410 Service Aggregation Switch; and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products. The company's Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, network function virtualization orchestration, analytics, and related services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers OneControl unified management system and platform software services, as well as manage, control, and plan software. The company's Global Services segment provides consulting and network design, installation and deployment, maintenance support, and training services. The company sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to network operators. Ciena Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.

REKR

Rekor Systems Inc.

Rekor Systems, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides vehicle identification and management systems based on artificial intelligence in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It offers OpenALPR software, a vehicle recognition software. The company provides vehicle recognition and data management products and services; traffic safety systems, including hardware that identifies red light and school safety zone traffic violations, as well as software, which captures and offers forensic quality images and data, and supports citation management services; and enterprise parking enforcement solutions. Its customers include federal, state, and local government entities; retailers; private security companies; parking management companies; fast-food restaurant chains; and logistics companies. Rekor Systems, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.