News Analysis - Comments (4) January 31, 2001 : The Light Reading Index loses 1.32 percent, despite solid earnings from New Focus and Advanced Fibre
News Analysis - Comments (65) January 31, 2001 : Cisco announces its 10-Gbit/s products, along with some general optical hoopla UPDATED 1/31/01 5pm EST
News Analysis - Post a comment January 31, 2001 : Testing company lands Amber Networks as a customer, asserts the importance of being "vendor neutral"
News Analysis - Comments (41) January 31, 2001 : After much speculation, the company has reportedly shut its doors for good UPDATED 1/31/01 2am EST
News Analysis - Post a comment January 30, 2001 : The Light Reading Index sneaks up 1 percent; New Focus surprises on the upside after the market closes
News Analysis - Comments (3) January 30, 2001 : It's starting commercial production of low-voltage, high-speed lithium niobate modulators
News Analysis - Comments (19) January 30, 2001 : Redback runs straight at Cisco, launching the SmartEdge 100, a smaller version of its Sonet multiplexer
News Analysis - Comments (17) January 30, 2001 : Its whopping second round seems to be linked to a shift in strategy
News Analysis - Comments (4) January 29, 2001 : Startup draws $60M from the VCs, but its IP “service routing” technology faces rampant competition
News Analysis - Comments (23) January 29, 2001 : NetPlane makes a play as the source for open IP routing code
News Analysis - Comments (18) January 29, 2001 : Redback announces $120 million contract to deliver Williams its SmartEdge optical product UPDATED 11:30 AM
News Analysis - Comments (10) January 29, 2001 : Azanda Network Devices says it holds the key to high-speed chips for optical switches
News Analysis - Post a comment January 29, 2001 : Paxonet's silicon addresses a key requirement -- packing legacy traffic into Sonet connections.
News Analysis - Comments (2) January 26, 2001 : Are the markets warming up to public offerings again? Ciena's secondary will be a key test
News Analysis - Comments (8) January 26, 2001 : Infonetics says VPNs are alive and healthy, which should give a boost to system vendors
News Analysis - Comments (25) January 26, 2001 : Company replaces Rob Keil, vice president of marketing with business development VP
News Analysis - Comments (6) January 26, 2001 : Company beats revenue estimates for the fourth quarter, but where are the new customers?
News Analysis - Comments (4) January 26, 2001 : Chipmaker says eight of its top 10 customers are cutting back on orders
News Analysis - Comment (1) January 25, 2001 : What's a lonely Ciena box doing in Level 3's New York POP?
News Analysis - Post a comment January 25, 2001 : Corning beats back the optimism
News Analysis - Comments (8) January 25, 2001 : After months of marketing itself as a core routing company, Foundry changes its tune
News Analysis - Comments (3) January 25, 2001 : Despite a strong earnings report, investors have panicked over next-quarter guidance. Are they overreacting?
News Analysis - Comments (8) January 25, 2001 : Startup is making pump lasers for long-haul networks
News Analysis - Comment (1) January 24, 2001 : Industry watchers speculate that JDSU's rumored sale of its Zurich plant to Nortel is the cause of the delay
News Analysis - Comment (1) January 24, 2001 : EXFO, Newport, Agilent, and others say new test gear will reduce the time it takes to make optical components
News Analysis - Comments (39) January 24, 2001 : The cleanup accelerates, but optical networking growth is still nowhere to be found
News Analysis - Comments (4) January 24, 2001 : Vendor lands Nortel as a 10 percent customer and meets estimates, but management expresses caution
News Analysis - Comments (77) January 24, 2001 : Ilotron is offering a similar (and possibly better) package of technologies
News Analysis - Comments (10) January 24, 2001 : MFN is testing "something" made by Procket. No one will say what -- and the tester is on Procket's advisory board
News Analysis - Post a comment January 23, 2001 : The Light Reading Index is fueled by positive earnings news
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News Analysis - Comments (13) January 23, 2001 : Sorrento's riding a wave of good news, getting a mention in the Gilder Technology Report following its name change
News Analysis - Comments (3) January 23, 2001 : Investors respond positively to Tellabs' fourth quarter; optical product line drives growth
News Analysis - Comment (1) January 23, 2001 : Metro services, Former FCC chairman as board member, financing from Benchmark and Cisco -- sound familiar?
News Analysis - Comments (5) January 22, 2001 : JDSU is expected to meet expectations for its quarterly results, but analysts cast doubt on the long-term outlook
News Analysis - Comments (4) January 22, 2001 : Chiaro tries not to let its legal scuffles with Alcatel bog it down
News Analysis - Comments (14) January 22, 2001 : The ability to store light in an optical memory buffer could have huge implications for photonic routing
News Analysis - Comment (1) January 22, 2001 : Claims to have the first chip to meet IEEE spec for sending 10-gig Ethernet across a backplane
News Analysis - Comments (8) January 19, 2001 : News from Juniper and AMCC fuels a rally, boosting the Light Reading Index nearly 10% on the week
News Analysis - Comments (13) January 19, 2001 : The lockup of 180 million shares of Corvis stock will expire next week, making them free to sell on the open market
News Analysis - Comments (21) January 19, 2001 : Lead investor pulls out. CEO quits. Is it goodbye, not au revoir, for router startup? -- UPDATED 3:35 PM EST
News Analysis - Comments (37) January 19, 2001 : The resilient packet ring gang gets its act together, planning better restoration features for metro Ethernet
News Analysis - Comments (11) January 19, 2001 : Nortel officials told investors what they wanted to hear, but dodged questions about IP routing and metro networking
News Analysis - Comments (9) January 18, 2001 : The numbers met the estimates, but Wall Street didn't like the message being sent by declining margins
News Analysis - Comments (21) January 18, 2001 : Kleiner Perkins's optical kingmaker, Vinod Khosla, says the shakeout will be brutal but the market is huge
News Analysis - Comment (1) January 18, 2001 : The voice gateway company has been landing some big customers
News Analysis - Comment (1) January 18, 2001 : Automation and miniaturization are promising an IPO payoff by the end of the year
News Analysis - Comments (8) January 17, 2001 : Ex-Nortel president joins Allegro. Its "peering platform" will allow ISPs to buy capacity on long-haul networks
News Analysis - Post a comment January 17, 2001 : A slew of positive earnings reports reverses the psychology
News Analysis - Comments (2) January 17, 2001 : John Vice has taken over as Geyser's third CEO. Is he the right man for the job?
News Analysis - Comments (4) January 17, 2001 : Company claims new chip could drive a gargantuan optical/electrical switch with 18,496 ports
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