The economic slowdown has hit the telecommunications sector, but it’s nothing compared with the industry’s severe downturn of 2001.

“The big difference from that period is our customers are a lot more stable than they were back then,” said Tom Mock, senior vice president of strategic planning for Linthicum-based Ciena Corp. “I’d call this a bump in the road.”

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