From AT&T to Ciena: Tracking optical earnings in Q1 2025

April 23, 2025
Check out how the optical industry's key players performed in the first quarter of 2025.

The first quarter of the 2025 earnings reporting season has begun, and Lightwave+BTR is tracking how key players in the optical networking industry segment, which includes optical vendors and business service providers, performed.

Please check here for updates on service providers, vendors and integrators in this segment.

You can also check out how Lightwave+BTR tracks the first quarter of 2025 results of the major players in the broadband industry.

Also, check out our Q4 2023Q1 2024Q2 2024, Q3 2024 and Q4 2024 optical earnings coverage. 

April 10

Ekinops
www.ekinops.com
Ekinops reported $32.5 million in revenues for the quarter, up 1% year-over-year from last year.
- see our coverage

April 22

Verizon
www.verizon.com
Verizon reported first quarter consolidated operating revenue of $33.0 billion, up 0.2 percent from first-quarter 2023 with strong results in wireless and broadband.
- see our coverage 

April 23

AT&T
www.att.com
AT&T's total revenues were $30.6 billion in the first quarter. The company added 261,000 fiber subscribers and 137,000 total broadband net additions.
- see our coverage 

April 29

Corning
www.corning.com
Corning reported that in the first quarter, Optical Communications' sales were $1.36 billion, up 106%, driven by the continued strong adoption of its new Gen AI products in the enterprise portion of the business.
- see our coverage 

Frontier
www.frontier.com
Frontier added 321,000 fiber passings to reach 8.1 million locations passed with fiber during the first quarter.
- see our coverage

Ribbon Communications
www.ribboncommunications.com
Ribbon reported first-quarter revenue of $181 million, up $180 million year-over-year, as it reported substantial gains in its Cloud & Edge segment.
- see our coverage

May 1

Lumen
www.lumen.com
Lumen reported first-quarter revenue of $3.18 billion, down from $3.29 billion in the first quarter of 2024.
- see our coverage

May 6

Lumentum
www.lumentum.com

May 7

Adtran
www.adtran.com

May 8

Cogent Communications
www.cogentco.com

May 14

Cisco
www.cisco.com

May 21 

Dycom
www.dycomind.com

June 5

Ciena
www.ciena.com

 

About the Author

Sean Buckley

Sean is responsible for establishing and executing the editorial strategies of Lightwave and Broadband Technology Report across their websites, email newsletters, events, and other information products.

About the Author

Hayden Beeson

Hayden Beeson is a writer and editor with over seven years of experience in a variety of industries. Prior to joining Lightwave and Broadband Technology Report, he was the associate editor of Architectural SSL and LEDs Magazine. 

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