Revenue (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2020

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

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


	Year Ended October 31, 2020
	Networking Platforms		Platform Software and Services		Blue Planet Automation Software and Services		Global Services		Total
Product lines:
Converged Packet Optical	$	2,547,647	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	2,547,647
Packet Networking	267,416		—		—		—		267,416
Platform Software and Services	—		197,809		—		—		197,809
Blue Planet Automation Software and Services	—		—		62,632		—		62,632
Maintenance Support and Training	—		—		—		269,354		269,354
Installation and Deployment	—		—		—		152,003		152,003
Consulting and Network Design	—		—		—		35,296		35,296
Total revenue by product line	$	2,815,063	$	197,809	$	62,632	$	456,653	$	3,532,157

Timing of revenue recognition:
Products and services at a point in time	$	2,815,063	$	69,099	$	19,583	$	14,363	$	2,918,108
Products and services transferred over time	—		128,710		43,049		442,290		614,049
Total revenue by timing of revenue recognition	$	2,815,063	$	197,809	$	62,632	$	456,653	$	3,532,157


	Year Ended November 2, 2019
	Networking Platforms		Platform Software and Services		Blue Planet Automation Software and Services		Global Services		Total
Product lines:
Converged Packet Optical	$	2,562,841	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	2,562,841
Packet Networking	348,477		—		—		—		348,477
Platform Software and Services	—		155,376		—		—		155,376
Blue Planet Automation Software and Services	—		—		54,555		—		54,555
Maintenance Support and Training	—		—		—		261,337		261,337
Installation and Deployment	—		—		—		148,233		148,233
Consulting and Network Design	—		—		—		41,312		41,312
Total revenue by product line	$	2,911,318	$	155,376	$	54,555	$	450,882	$	3,572,131

Timing of revenue recognition:
Products and services at a point in time	$	2,911,318	$	55,530	$	17,697	$	18,802	$	3,003,347
Products and services transferred over time	—		99,846		36,858		432,080		568,784
Total revenue by timing of revenue recognition	$	2,911,318	$	155,376	$	54,555	$	450,882	$	3,572,131

Effective the beginning of fiscal 2020, Ciena’s Global Sales and Marketing organization combined its previous North America and CALA regions into a new “Americas” sales region. Accordingly, Ciena reflects its sales geographically around the following markets: (i) Americas; (ii) EMEA; and (iii) 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):


	Year Ended
	October 31, 2020		November 2, 2019
Geographic Distribution:
Americas	$	2,469,278	$	2,503,913
EMEA	591,468		566,718
APAC	471,411		501,500
Total revenue by geographic distribution	$	3,532,157	$	3,572,131

Contract Balances

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


	Balance at October 31, 2020		Balance at November 2, 2019
Accounts receivable, net	$	719,405	$	724,854
Contract assets for unbilled accounts receivable	$	85,843	$	84,046
Deferred revenue	$	158,363	$	156,873

As of the dates indicated, deferred revenue is comprised of the following (in thousands):


	October 31, 2020		November 2, 2019
Products	$	17,534	$	27,366
Services	140,829		129,507
	158,363		156,873
Less current portion	(108,700)		(111,381)
Long-term deferred revenue	$	49,663	$	45,492