From AT&T to Ciena: Tracking optical earnings in Q2 2025

Check out how the optical industry's key players performed in the second quarter of 2025.
June 30, 2025
2 min read

The second quarter of the 2025 earnings reporting season has begun, and Lightwave 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 tracks the second-quarter 2025 results of the major players in the broadband industry.

Also, check out our Q4 2023Q1 2024Q2 2024Q3 2024, Q4 2024 and Q1 2025 optical earnings coverage. 

July 10 

Ekinops
www.ekinops.com
Following a 16% decline in the first quarter, Ekinops’ sales of optical transport equipment rebounded sharply by 42% in the second quarter. Over H1 2025, Ekinops’ revenue came to $67.3 million, which was nearly identical to H1 2024.
- here’s our coverage

July 21

Verizon
www.verizon.com
Verizon’s second quarter consolidated revenue reached $34.5 billion, up 5.2% year-over-year. The company stated that this result was driven by solid wireless service revenue and a more than 25% increase in wireless equipment sales.
- here’s our coverage

July 23

AT&T
www.att.com
AT&T’s total second-quarter revenue was $30.8 billion, up 3.5% from $29.8 billion in the year-ago quarter. This company attributed the revenue increase to higher Mobility and Consumer Wireline revenues, partially offset by declines in Business Wireline and Mexico, which were also impacted by unfavorable foreign exchange effects.
- here’s our coverage

Ribbon Communications
www.ribboncommunications.com
Ribbon’s overall second-quarter revenue rose 15% year over year to $221 million, exceeding guidance.
- here's our coverage

July 29

Corning
www.corning.com

July 31

Frontier
www.frontier.com

August 4

Adtran
www.adtran.com

August 5

Lumen
www.lumen.com

August 7

Cogent Communications
www.cogentco.com

August 12 

Lumentum
www.lumentum.com

TBA

Ciena
www.ciena.com

Cisco
www.cisco.com

Dycom
www.dycomind.com

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