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Articles published in March 2001

Convergent Pulls IPO


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March 30, 2001 : Another one bites the dust: Convergent pulls its $85M IPO from the calendar

Chinook Blows Into Town


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March 30, 2001 : Startup with MIT origins draws $17 million and an impressive executive team to pack more data into the last mile

Ellacoya Loses Sales VP


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March 30, 2001 : Ellacoya's sales VP bolts as product delivery schedule slips

Don Smith Leaves Nortel


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March 30, 2001 : One of the optical industry's leaders dials out of Nortel -- possibly for a startup -- as a reorg gets underway

LR Index Sinks to New Lows


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March 29, 2001 : The Light Reading Index plumbs the depths of gloom. Survival is the name of the game

Agility Unveils Long-Haul Laser


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March 29, 2001 : Its 10 milliwatt laser looks like a breakthrough, but it could be a publicity stunt

Intelligent Hardware: 'An $8.5B Market'


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March 29, 2001 : The market for intelligent optical devices is set to grow 59 percent, according to a report from Infonetics

ADC Woes Raise Venture Question


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March 29, 2001 : As ADC and other big firms downsize, their support of optical startups appears to be waning

Mayan Buys Ticker Symbol


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March 28, 2001 : A bid for liquidity? Startup Mayan buys the tiny public company Ariel

Is the Bloom off Jasmine?


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March 28, 2001 : Jasmine cuts staff by 25 percent and the CEO is gone. Did Nortel lead it astray? UPDATED 3/29/01 5pm EST

Avici Sales Chief Lands at TelOptica


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March 28, 2001 : Brian McCormack, former head of worldwide sales for Avici, surfaces at a Texas startup

Cisco Cautious on VOIP


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March 28, 2001 : The telco world is in no rush to move voice traffic to the Internet, according to Cisco executives

Startups Team Up on Recruitment


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March 28, 2001 : Eighteen startups in Massachusetts are pooling their efforts to attract recruits

Agere's Fistful of Dollars


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March 28, 2001 : The Agere IPO gets priced at $6 per share, raising $3.6 billion. Shares trade up slightly in NYSE debut UPDATED 2pm ET

Nortel Warns of Shortfall, More Layoffs


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March 27, 2001 : CEO John Roth has no "meaningful" guidance for the rest of the year. The company is cutting 15,000 jobs

MPLS Mavens Tout Progress


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March 27, 2001 : About the most interesting thing about the latest MPLS interoperability test is the list of participants

Redback's Blair off to the Races


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March 27, 2001 : Redback's marketing VP Larry Blair packs up for a two-month sojourn on the CART tour

Sorrento Shares Fall on Financing News


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March 26, 2001 : Sorrento raises $10 million in a private placement sold below the market price of the stock -- investors unnamed

Corvis Closing in on New Customers


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March 26, 2001 : Corvis has some new business brewing, which may finally give Wall Street the news it's looking for

Plea Bargain for Theft of Cisco Secrets


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March 26, 2001 : A former Cisco team leader admits to taking confidential information to a startup, Calix Networks

Hitachi: A Small Fry in the Long-Haul


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March 23, 2001 : Hitachi's telecom unit is set to announce its new long-haul DWDM platform

MEMS Make It Big?


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March 23, 2001 : A growing number of vendors are developing large MEMS-based optical switches

Shakeout Shakes Up Jobs Scene


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March 23, 2001 : Layoffs and the slowing economy are a mixed bag for startups

OpNet's Filling Its Dance Card


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March 23, 2001 : Small design and network-simulation software company appears to be on a roll

Sorrento Reports Earnings, Financing


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March 23, 2001 : Sorrento Networks, ever hopeful, bends the discussion toward new financing ** UPDATED **

OFC's Hot Products


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March 22, 2001 : The new product demos and announcements that got the biggest buzz

OFC Report: Pick of the Papers


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March 22, 2001 : The crème de la crème of research and development projects, according to the conference program's panel of experts

Agere Delays IPO and Reduces Offering


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March 22, 2001 : Lucent spinoff puts off its IPO until at least next week, cuts its price in half--UPDATED 3/22/01 3PM EST

Alcatel Holds World Record for a Day


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March 22, 2001 : ... then along comes NEC with an even bigger claim for high-capacity transmission

JDSU Switches Acquisition Strategy


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March 22, 2001 : Will focus on buying wee outfits working on next-gen technologies

The Booth Beauty Contest


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March 22, 2001 : Trade show booths should say a lot about a company. Sometimes they say too much

Raman Risks Emerge


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March 21, 2001 : Distributed Raman pumping might actually damage fiber and create safety hazards

Teem's Tiny Metro Amp Makes Waves


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March 21, 2001 : Teem's amplifier is used in experiments by AT&T and Lucent and demonstrated here at OFC

Point Reyes Rises Again


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March 21, 2001 : The cadaver rises: Are recycled startups the new trend?

OFC Report: Day Two


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March 20, 2001 : The roar of the transponders, the fear of the crowd

Cisco Marches Deeper Into the Metro


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March 20, 2001 : Cisco aims to parlay its success in next-generation Sonet technology into victories in the DWDM market

Crowds and Smoke Mark OFC


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March 20, 2001 : OFC, which expects 40,000 attendees this week in Anaheim, is booming. That's not to say everything went smoothly

Intel VC Resurfaces at Ignis Optics


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March 20, 2001 : Michael Lebby, ex-leader of Intel Capital's optical investments, heads components design firm

Components Companies Chill Out


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March 20, 2001 : Corning forecast sends another chill though the components business. Better times are at least six months away

OFC Report: Day One


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March 19, 2001 : High-capacity 40-Gbit/s and DWDM component developments dominate the opening of the Optical Fiber Conference

Nortel Pumps a Bigger, Faster Core


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March 19, 2001 : Nortel announces the key pieces to its strategy for beefing up the network's core equipment to speeds of 40-Gbit/s

Novalux Details Laser Advance


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March 19, 2001 : Launches first product and describes technology -- some of it -- for making high-power, surface-emitting lasers

Agilent Automates Component Testing


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March 19, 2001 : Agilent's put insider know-how of its test modules into new test software

Lucent Spins Out Laser Startup


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March 19, 2001 : Lucent's created AraLight, a startup claiming to generate 500-Gbit/s laser modules

Ocular Announces First Product


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March 19, 2001 : Ocular says it has the solution to the service provisioning bottleneck

Quantum Bridge Snaps In DWDM


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March 19, 2001 : The company launches another low-cost optical access product, a DWDM unit

JDSU Readies OFC Blitz


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March 16, 2001 : A portfolio of 70 new products will push toward broader DWDM channel counts and 40 Gbit/s speeds

OptiMight Details Long-Haul Box


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March 16, 2001 : OptiMight sees a Raman-free world through its new OMC1600 long-haul optical product

Velio Breaks Grooming Barrier


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March 16, 2001 : Startup's chip could lead to much larger-scale grooming switches

Movaz on the Move


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March 16, 2001 : Movaz Networks looks to be working on an optical transport switch based on G-MPLS
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