Case Study: Ciena doubles meeting participation, cuts costs 50% and secures traffic with Zscaler

Ciena Secures Traffic, Boosts Employee Engagement with Zscaler and VMware

Ciena, a global networking systems and services company, needed to boost employee engagement after leadership saw higher participation when teams used video in meetings. Their legacy hub-and-spoke WAN and rapidly growing cloud and SSL-encrypted traffic (about 70% encrypted) couldn’t scale to support broad video and cloud app use, so IT sought a cloud-first, low-latency, easily scalable security approach.

Ciena implemented VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud with Zscaler Internet Access and Zscaler Private Access to enable secure local internet breakouts, cloud-delivered security, and SSL inspection. The solution reduced application latency by 20%, cut costs by 50%, doubled meeting participation, delivered identical protection across all locations, simplified branch operations, and accelerated the company’s move to the cloud.

Ciena

Ed DeGrange

Principal Security Architect