Revenue (Tables)

6 Months Ended

May 02, 2020

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

Disaggregation of Revenue

The tables below (in thousands) set forth Ciena’s disaggregated revenue for the respective period:

	Quarter Ended May 2, 2020
	Networking Platforms		Platform Software and Services		Blue Planet Automation Software and Services		Global Services		Total
Product lines:
Converged Packet Optical	$	654,294	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	654,294
Packet Networking	64,167		—		—		—		64,167
Platform Software and Services	—		44,985		—		—		44,985
Blue Planet Automation Software and Services	—		—		15,017		—		15,017
Maintenance Support and Training	—		—		—		71,479		71,479
Installation and Deployment	—		—		—		34,242		34,242
Consulting and Network Design	—		—		—		9,869		9,869
Total revenue by product line	$	718,461	$	44,985	$	15,017	$	115,590	$	894,053
Timing of revenue recognition:
Products and services at a point in time	$	718,461	$	16,978	$	4,745	$	4,677	$	744,861
Services transferred over time	—		28,007		10,272		110,913		149,192
Total revenue by timing of revenue recognition	$	718,461	$	44,985	$	15,017	$	115,590	$	894,053

	Quarter Ended May 4, 2019
	Networking Platforms		Platform Software and Services		Blue Planet Automation Software and Services		Global Services		Total
Product lines:
Converged Packet Optical	$	623,838	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	623,838
Packet Networking	73,138		—		—		—		73,138
Platform Software and Services	—		35,229		—		—		35,229
Blue Planet Automation Software and Services	—		—		12,473		—		12,473
Maintenance Support and Training	—		—		—		68,788		68,788
Installation and Deployment	—		—		—		41,322		41,322
Consulting and Network Design	—		—		—		10,223		10,223
Total revenue by product line	$	696,976	$	35,229	$	12,473	$	120,333	$	865,011
Timing of revenue recognition:
Products and services at a point in time	$	696,976	$	11,101	$	3,047	$	5,575	$	716,699
Services transferred over time	—		24,128		9,426		114,758		148,312
Total revenue by timing of revenue recognition	$	696,976	$	35,229	$	12,473	$	120,333	$	865,011

	Six Months Ended May 2, 2020
	Networking Platforms		Platform Software and Services		Blue Planet Automation Software and Services		Global Services		Total
Product lines:
Converged Packet Optical	1,245,844		$	—	$	—	$	—	$	1,245,844
Packet Networking	131,675		—		—		—		131,675
Platform Software and Services	—		96,873		—		—		96,873
Blue Planet Automation Software and Services	—		—		30,482		—		30,482
Maintenance Support and Training	—		—		—		133,271		133,271
Installation and Deployment	—		—		—		69,196		69,196
Consulting and Network Design	—		—		—		19,624		19,624
Total revenue by product line	$	1,377,519	$	96,873	$	30,482	$	222,091	$	1,726,965
Timing of revenue recognition:
Products and services at a point in time	$	1,377,518	$	30,092	$	8,482	$	8,874	$	1,424,966
Services transferred over time	—		66,781		22,001		213,217		301,999
Total revenue by timing of revenue recognition	$	1,377,518	$	96,873	$	30,483	$	222,091	$	1,726,965

	Six Months Ended May 4, 2019
	Networking Platforms		Platform Software and Services		Blue Planet Automation Software and Services		Global Services		Total
Product lines:
Converged Packet Optical	$	1,172,835	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	1,172,835
Packet Networking	144,707		—		—		—		144,707
Platform Software and Services	—		76,827		—		—		76,827
Blue Planet Automation Software and Services	—		—		27,447		—		27,447
Maintenance Support and Training	—		—		—		130,065		130,065
Installation and Deployment	—		—		—		71,944		71,944
Consulting and Network Design	—		—		—		19,713		19,713
Total revenue by product line	$	1,317,542	$	76,827	$	27,447	$	221,722	$	1,643,538
Timing of revenue recognition:
Products and services at a point in time	$	1,317,542	$	27,145	$	9,275	$	9,141	$	1,363,103
Services transferred over time	—		49,682		18,172		212,581		280,435
Total revenue by timing of revenue recognition	$	1,317,542	$	76,827	$	27,447	$	221,722	$	1,643,538

Effective the beginning of fiscal 2020, Ciena’s Global Sales and Marketing organization combined its previous North America and Caribbean and Latin America (“CALA”) regions into a new “Americas” sales region. Accordingly, Ciena reflects its sales geographically around the following markets: (i) Americas; (ii) Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”); and (iii) Asia Pacific, Japan and India (“APAC”). Within each geographic area, Ciena maintains specific teams or personnel that focus on a particular region, country, customer or market vertical. These teams include sales management, account salespersons and sales engineers, as well as services professionals and commercial management personnel.

For the periods below, Ciena’s geographic distribution of revenue was as follows (in thousands):

	Quarter Ended				Six Months Ended
	May 2,		May 4,		May 2,		May 4,
	2020		2019		2020		2019
Geographic distribution:
Americas	$	650,381	$	615,492	$	1,224,385	1,131,973
EMEA	141,431		114,993		271,396		244,183
APAC	102,241		134,526		231,184		267,382
Total revenue by geographic distribution	$	894,053	$	865,011	$	1,726,965	$	1,643,538

Contract Balances

The following table provides information about receivables, contract assets and contract liabilities (deferred revenue) from contracts with customers (in thousands):

	Balance at May 2, 2020		Balance at November 2, 2019
Accounts receivable, net	$	693,963	$	724,854
Contract assets for unbilled accounts receivable	$	87,746	$	84,046
Deferred revenue	$	149,917	$	156,873