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Articles published in June 2001

Agere's Good Bad News


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June 29, 2001 : Agere cuts 4,000 jobs, consolidates its facilities, and writes off $900M. Wall Street saw it coming and sent the stock up

360networks Calls It Quits


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June 29, 2001 : In another sign of the times, the Canadian carrier's filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and Canada

Physicists Find Fiber's Limit


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June 29, 2001 : There's no end in sight for bandwidth boosting innovations, says Bell Labs

Can Sycamore MIX it Up?


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June 28, 2001 : BellSouth lights up its Multimedia Internet Exchange (MIX). It's the first test of Sycamore's comeback with the SN16000

IPOptical Races the Clock


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June 28, 2001 : First, the startup battled Alcatel over intellectual property. Now the clock ticks as it looks for cash

CyOptics Claims Modulator Milestone


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June 28, 2001 : Hopes to show that indium phosphide will become the material of choice for 40-gig devices. Codeon begs to differ

Storage Service Revenues Set to Soar


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June 28, 2001 : A poll of 300 carriers shows that storage services will represent a rising proportion of their revenues

Is Cabletron Back?


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June 28, 2001 : Cabletron's painful turnaround process -- built on a series of spinoffs -- finally appears to be bearing some fruit

Redback's Woes Mount


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June 27, 2001 : Redback Networks takes down quarterly earnings estimates some 30 percent

Intensive Care


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June 27, 2001 : Intense Photonics finally bags $11 million after a long wait

Chilling Optical Chip Dip


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June 27, 2001 : The losses in the communications semiconductor industry breed despair. But it's the last place to look for recovery

Layoff Numbers: A (Pink) Slippery Subject


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June 27, 2001 : Big companies are cutting thousands of jobs, but pinning down precise numbers is difficult

Riverstone Wins Big in Asia


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June 27, 2001 : Riverstone could have a new 10% customer: Today it announced a big deal with S. Korea's largest carrier

General Photonics Is in the Money


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June 27, 2001 : Startup is already reaping significant revenues from PMD compensator components

Zepton: Take Me to Your Leaders


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June 26, 2001 : Lightera founder Jagdeep Singh's got a new gig -- and Kleiner Perkins has funded it to the tune of $50M

Tachion Trolls for Cash


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June 26, 2001 : A week after a massive layoff, Tachion is trying to raise money and reinvent itself

Nortel 'Rightsizes' Terabit Router


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June 26, 2001 : Nortel's core routing efforts take another step back as company chops Optera Packet Core development staff in half

Phaethon Embarks on Tunability


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June 25, 2001 : Startup claims a unique approach to solving dispersion compensation woes on high-speed optical links
UPDATED 6/26 11am ET

Planting for the Future


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June 25, 2001 : Alcatel and Lucent are in various stages of selling several manufacturing plants. Will it help?

iPolicy: IP Services on Speed


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June 25, 2001 : Company formed by merger of an Indian company and an American company touts services offered at gigabit speeds

Polaris Builds a God Box


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June 25, 2001 : It's an optical switch and a router and an ATM switch and, and, and...

Khosla is Still Cooking


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June 23, 2001 : The renowned VC is still dabbling with new startups while he's on sabbatical

Caspian Charges Hard


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June 22, 2001 : Agreements with AMCC, IBM, and Iona lend credibility to the company's claims

Sour Grapes of Roth


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June 22, 2001 : Why Qwest's Joseph Nacchio told Nortel's John Roth to stop snivelling

Cielo Pushes the Limits on Lasers


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June 22, 2001 : Says it will be first out of the gate with products based on 1310nm VCSELs

Multilink Debuts, Quietly


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June 21, 2001 : After weeks of bad news, Multilink braves the troubled IPO market

Dorado Unveils Per-User Provisioning


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June 21, 2001 : New software is supposed to put more control into the hands of end-users. But do carriers really want to do that?

Motorola Talking to RiverDelta?


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June 21, 2001 : Rumors abound that Motorola is in acquisition talks with RiverDelta Networks

Metro Hopes Float on Riverstone


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June 21, 2001 : Better than expected first-quarter results suggest the metro market may be recovering

WaveSmith Closes $31M Round


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June 21, 2001 : Edge switch startup bucks the down trend with an "up round" and a new lead investor

Parallel Optics Boosts Bandwidth


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June 20, 2001 : TeraConnect and Blaze Networks have got some good news for monster router developers

MRV Spinout Bound by Bonds


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June 20, 2001 : MRV evaluates its options on eliminating $90 million in debt, which is holding back its distribution of Luminent shares

Ciena Skeptics Emerge


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June 20, 2001 : Round of analyst downgrades reflects a common thought: How could they be immune to the telecom slump?

Tellabs Tanks on Warning


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June 20, 2001 : The revenue shortfall may be the least of its worries: Where are the new DWDM product sales?

DWDM Slump Temporary, Says Report


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June 20, 2001 : ElectroniCast says that the market for DWDM filters will grow more than 20 percent yearly for the next decade

Crunch Time at Tachion


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June 19, 2001 : After cutting more than half its employees and telling them funding efforts have failed, Tachion denies it's shutting down

Calient Cuts 60 Jobs


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June 19, 2001 : In spite of raising $225 million six months ago, the startup says it needs to cut costs

Luminous Rounds Up $80M


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June 19, 2001 : Metropolitan Ethernet equipment provider and recent Top Ten inductee Luminous scores a hefty round

Qwest Gives Market a Boost


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June 19, 2001 : Carrier reassures investors that it's on track for 2001 growth targets

A Copper and Cable Revival?


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June 19, 2001 : TollBridge and CopperCom land cash, but broadband IP voice players have the same challenges as everybody else

BrightLink Brings Home the Bacon


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June 19, 2001 : BrightLink's investors chip in for $35.8 million funding round; Schaller will stay on as CEO

From Graphics to Optics


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June 18, 2001 : Creo looks to win new investors by building an optical switch built with bending fibers

Cirrex Tidies Up


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June 18, 2001 : Subsystem startup relaunches with former Nortel executive as CEO; refurbishes product plans

Broadcom Unveils NewPort Chip


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June 18, 2001 : Broadcom announces a 10-Gbit/s DWDM transport chip, its first offering from last year's NewPort acquisition

Level 3 Shares Dip on Warning


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June 18, 2001 : Level 3 lays off 23.7 percent of its workforce and warns that losses are mounting

Zettacom Set to Score $47.5M


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June 18, 2001 : Startup says it's ready to go beta with a 1.7-Tbit/s switch fabric and accompanying traffic management chip

IBM Seeks Greenfield Pastures


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June 18, 2001 : IBM looks to adopt the specialized broadband services that Nortel, Lucent, and other vendors have had to abandon

Cisco Targets a Billion Dollar Business


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June 15, 2001 : Storage networking could be a $1.4 billion business for Cisco by 2004, says a Byte and Switch report

Sun Setting on 360networks ?


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June 15, 2001 : The clock is ticking as the carrier misses a debt payment to conserve cash and search for last-minute options

Valiant Networks Regroups


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June 15, 2001 : Network consultancy cuts 30 percent of its staff and CEO resigns as it looks for a another round of funding
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