As of August 3, 2015, Cyan, Inc. was acquired by Ciena Corporation. Cyan, Inc. provides various carrier-grade networking solutions that transform legacy networks into open high-performance networks in North America, Asia, and Europe. Its solutions enable network operators to virtualize their networks, accelerate service delivery, and enhance scalability and performance. The company offers Cyan Z-Series of multi-layer switching and transport platforms to support the technologies used in regional and metro networks, including Ethernet-based services and optical services. It also provides Cyan Blue Planet, a carrier-grade software-defined networking platform that offers network virtualization and service-enabling applications, including Planet Orchestrate, a multi-domain software-defined network (SDN) and network functions virtualization orchestration application to accelerate service velocity; Planet Design that allows network operators to design networks; Planet Operate, an SDN-enabled network management application, which provides fault, configuration, accounting, provisioning, security, and other capabilities; Planet View, a performance monitoring and service level agreement assurance application that allows the network operator to provide end-customers with real-time and historical visibility into the performance of their services through a customized Web portal; and Planet Inventory, an application that offers inventory reporting for multi-layer, multi-vendor packet-optical networks. In addition, the company offers professional, maintenance, support, and training services. It serves various service providers, high-performance data centers, and private network operators. The company was formerly known as Cyan Optics, Inc. and changed its name to Cyan, Inc. in November 2011. Cyan, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Petaluma, California.