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Articles published in June 2000

Where Copper Meets Glass


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June 30, 2000 : PONs and DSL: The Odd Couple?

Recruitment Packages Balloon


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June 29, 2000 : Options not enough? Try an interest-free loan

Juniper-Nortel "Alliance" Gives Pause


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June 29, 2000 : [Updated 3:50 PM ET] Nortel will sell Juniper routers

Vendor Lawsuits Get Personal


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June 28, 2000 : Companies are gunning for individual employees who violate non-compete agreements

Optical Mania in Texas


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June 28, 2000 : Iris project looks to launch companies in clusters

Orchestream Gets A Flying Start


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June 28, 2000 : Price leaps from 200 to 313 pence on its stock market debut

Wall Street says 'Whoa' to Williams


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June 27, 2000 : Company wants to spend another $1 billion on capacity--but earnings expectations and stock price sink

Orchestream Models Its Makeover


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June 27, 2000 : Vendor reinvented itself in readiness for tomorrow's public offering

Billing: Big Trouble for Carriers


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June 27, 2000 : Mergers may hamper revenue collection.

Sycamore Stretches


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June 27, 2000 : It's jumping on the ultra-long distance bandwagon

Methode Taps into Optical Madness


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June 26, 2000 : Stratos Lightwave set to give parent company some IPO pop

Lucent Invests in ISPSoft


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June 26, 2000 : A dive into IP provisioning software leaves some questions.

Mahi's Got a Big Fish to Fry


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June 23, 2000 : They've got $60 million and Goldman Sachs behind them. Is that enough to produce a "God box"?

DACS Sent Packing?


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June 23, 2000 : The digital cross-connect (DACS) market is morphing

JDSU/E-Tek Merger Approved: No Surprises


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June 23, 2000 : Investors even seem a little bored with the news

Fiber to the People


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June 22, 2000 : Local organizations fight to light up their own optic links

Tulsa Outage Serves As Warning


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June 22, 2000 : Underscores importance of reliability in high bandwidth backbones.

Atmosphere Comes Back to Earth


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June 22, 2000 : Ditech buys the beleaguered startup for $85.5 million in stock and $10 million in cash

Orchestream Banks on QoS


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June 21, 2000 : Institutional investors bought up shares in the quality of service (QoS) specialist today. Joe Public will get his turn next week

Pluris Is Back


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June 21, 2000 : After a year of keeping quiet, Pluris is finally getting ready to ship a super-scalable terabit router

Cisco's Second String


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June 21, 2000 : Cisco bought Cerent to get a foothold in the Sonet market, but it's still working on its Sonet killer - DPT

Optical Switches Go Acoustic


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June 20, 2000 : Two vendors are developing technologies that use sound waves to switch light.

Novalux Promises Cheaper Lasers


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June 20, 2000 : Startup scales up LAN technology to address cost cutting requirement in metro nets.

Vendors Ramp Up Fiber Production


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June 19, 2000 : Even so, demand still seems likely to outstrip supply for the foreseeable future.

More Optical Vendors Report Break-Ins


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June 19, 2000 : Kymata and Quantum Bridge also have had their trade show displays tampered with

Corvis Sets Price Range for IPO


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June 19, 2000 : Shares to be priced at $13-$15, raising $400 million

Corvis-Sycamore Battle Looms


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June 16, 2000 : Public investors to get more choices in a nascent market

Équipe Hints at Software Edge


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June 16, 2000 : Moves to wire optical edge switch for applications

Nortel Extends Optical Lead


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June 15, 2000 : Market share grows from 28 percent to 37 percent

Fiber Components Excite VCs


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June 15, 2000 : Southampton Photonics raised a $55 million first round earlier this week. Here's why

Cinta's Strange Story


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June 15, 2000 : Did Cinta "give away the store" in order to get the backing of heavyweight VCs?

Cosine Spreads the Wealth


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June 14, 2000 : Six potential customers and options all around

Why Optical Switches Can't Fail


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June 14, 2000 : If they ever did, carriers would lose revenues of tens of thousands of dollars a second.

Vendors Serve Up Provisioning Smorgasbord


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June 14, 2000 : Service provisioning is supposed to help carriers make money, but currently this market is a ball of hair

Alcatel Boxes Clever


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June 13, 2000 : It’s woefully late to market, but Alcatel’s decision to introduce a terabit router isn’t as dumb as it looks

Switch Startup Raises MEMS Questions


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June 12, 2000 : If Integrated Micromachines is right, then most other vendors are using the wrong type of tilting mirrors

Estrin Launches "Perpetual Startup"


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June 12, 2000 : The serial entrepreneur and ex-Cisco CTO is starting Packet Design, an incubator with a difference

Components Shortage Delays Deliveries


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June 12, 2000 : Old economy production lines can't keep pace with demand.

Going Long On Light


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June 9, 2000 : Vendors are racing to make light signals go further

Doctor Huber's Revenge


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June 9, 2000 : Corvis IPO could attain $15 billion market cap

Booth Bandit Burgles Cyras


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June 8, 2000 : Vendor hints at industrial espionage, but its competitors think it's being paranoid

Fiber Queues Put Cablers in Control


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June 8, 2000 : The wait for fiber-optic cable lengthens, putting CLECs at the mercy of cable manufacturers and contractors

Charlotte's Web Weaves In TDM


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June 7, 2000 : Startup plans to integrate support for old school circuit-switched voice traffic into its router platform

SuperComm Halls Fill With Screams


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June 7, 2000 : What a scream! Calient and net.com have announced technologies with the same name

Atmosphere On The Block?


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June 6, 2000 : They didn't bother to show up at Supercomm--and nobody's really sure who would buy them

Sycamore Gains Access


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June 6, 2000 : Chairman Desh Deshpande says that $2.9 billion wasn't too much to pay for Sirocco Systems

Lucent Quiets Terabit Router Rumors


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June 6, 2000 : Lucent Technologies demo'd its terabit router in public for the first time, dispelling rumors that the product is a lemon

Amber Illuminates Edge Product


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June 6, 2000 : The company hopes a bigger, badder edge router will outgroom Cisco

Sycamore Demos Software Scalability


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June 6, 2000 : Its Supercomm demo addresses carrier concerns that optical nets could suffer scalability problems similar to frame relay's.

Agilent Tester Breaks New Ground


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June 6, 2000 : Integration of router emulation from Qosnetics enables real-world terabit router testing.
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