CIENA CORPORATION (FORMERLY CIENA CORPORATION, BROADBAND GROUP)

Lobbying for CIENA CORPORATION (FORMERLY CIENA CORPORATION, BROADBAND GROUP)

Filing 1st Quarter - Report

Reporting period

1st Quarter 2026

Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted Apr 20, 2026

Expenses

$420,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

District of Columbia

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 1

GRACE KOH

Previously held: U.S. Ambassador & Head of Delegation to ITU World Radiocommunication Conf. 2019, State Dept. (2019-20); Special Asst. to President for Tech, Telecom & Cybersecurity Policy (2017-19); Deputy Chief Counsel, U.S. House Subcmte on Comm. & Tech (2013-17).

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 6

Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
State, Dept of (DOS)
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
White House Office

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Lobbying activity 3

Telecommunications

Subsea cable resilience and security; permitting and licensing reform for submarine cables; AI infrastructure and the use of connectivity; trusted technology in infrastructure.

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Section 232 investigation into semiconductors; inclusion of connectivity in the American AI stack; India certification requirements challenges as non-tariff barriers to trade; USMCA renewal.

Homeland Security

Subsea cable resilience and security; permitting and licensing reform for submarine cables.

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.