CIENA CORPORATION (FORMERLY CIENA CORPORATION, BROADBAND GROUP)

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

Filing 2nd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

2nd Quarter 2025

Apr 1 - June 30 · Posted Jul 15, 2025

Expenses

$130,000.00

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)
Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank)
Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE
State, Dept of (DOS)

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; export controls on submarine cables; AI infrastructure and the use of connectivity; Discussion of Build America Buy America requirements on revised broadband subsidy rules.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

R&D expenses in 2024 revised tax bill.

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Discussion of access to external markets and impact of tariffs; discussion of access to loans for 5G network of Telekom Srbjia.

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