News Analysis - Comments (6) August 31, 2001 : Optical switching module startup puts its 3D MEMS developments on the back burner and sheds 25% of its staff
News Analysis - Comments (3) August 31, 2001 : Shuts Santa Rosa office, lays off 45 staff, focuses on making a simpler switch
News Analysis - Comments (11) August 31, 2001 : The latest optical transport figures from RHK show secretive Huawei leading a burgeoning optical market
News Analysis - Comments (21) August 31, 2001 : Components startup cuts 60 percent of its workforce, as it tries to sit out a funding famine
News Analysis - Comments (9) August 30, 2001 : The ex-partners are pounding each other over the failure of their planned joint blitz of the MSO market
News Analysis - Comments (2) August 30, 2001 : Bankruptcy court gives it until Oct 19 to find a buyer or find some new investors. The former appears more likely
News Analysis - Comments (2) August 30, 2001 : A surprise reduction in fiber orders is forcing it to lay off another 1,000. Analysts see no immediate uptick
News Analysis - Comments (4) August 30, 2001 : Former Cisco executive says he's focused on getting Redback back in black
News Analysis - Comments (16) August 29, 2001 : Stock takes a tumble after Merrill Lynch analyst cuts earnings forecast
News Analysis - Comments (5) August 29, 2001 : 10-Gig Ethernet component plays are "especially interesting" to Intel's investing arm
News Analysis - Comments (4) August 29, 2001 : Can Cogent profit from the demise of yet another BLEC? Or is it risking all in a bid for customer access?
News Analysis - Comments (14) August 29, 2001 : An equipment trial announced last fall ends in a 'no sale' for Sycamore
News Analysis - Comments (2) August 29, 2001 : German startup AIFOtec claims to have a nifty way of making small optical switches based on moving fibers
News Analysis - Comments (2) August 29, 2001 : Declares pro forma loss, despite increased sales, while analysts go sour on its stock
News Analysis - Comments (6) August 28, 2001 : KMI Corp. says the market will reach $6.3 billion by 2006, when all-optical crossconnects will overtake OEO gear
News Analysis - Comments (39) August 28, 2001 : One of the Iris Group companies resets its development efforts and fires most of its staff
News Analysis - Comments (47) August 28, 2001 : Lucent's consigned its Chromatis MSX products to the dustbin of history. About time, you say?
News Analysis - Comments (4) August 27, 2001 : Partners with CheckPoint to offer networked firewall and security as its first applications
News Analysis - Comments (34) August 27, 2001 : Cisco's "drink responsibly" signs are observed and mocked by weary workers
News Analysis - Comments (2) August 27, 2001 : Slowdown? Intelligent optical networking gear sold like hotcakes from 2000 through the first half of 2001
News Analysis - Comments (8) August 27, 2001 : Zhone buys bits of Nortel's Universal Edge and AccessNode product lines and will support its installed base
News Analysis - Comments (13) August 27, 2001 : Arrayed wave guides, interleavers, and some types of tunable components are where the action is
News Analysis - Comments (2) August 27, 2001 : Despite new customers and increased revenue, Unisphere is forced to reduce its IPO price target again
News Analysis - Comments (5) August 24, 2001 : Kevin DeNuccio has quit Cisco and is interviewing for Redback's CEO job UPDATED: 8/24 5:00 EST
News Analysis - Comments (5) August 24, 2001 : This small stealthy semiconductor startup plans to take its academic research into the commercial world
News Analysis - Post a comment August 24, 2001 : Solar cell technology has given scientists new ideas about how to make efficient silicon light-emitting devices
News Analysis - Comments (32) August 23, 2001 : Russo: down. Kennedy: out. Ullal: up. And Mazzola is promoted over
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News Analysis - Comments (12) August 23, 2001 : Cognigine says its architecture will blow the socks off the competition -- sooner or later
News Analysis - Comments (19) August 23, 2001 : Mahi has teamed with PMC-Sierra to deliver the mother of all metro God boxes. Is a BellSouth contract in the works?
News Analysis - Comments (174) August 23, 2001 : A large proportion of Light Readers think MPLS has gotten hijacked by the folk that got ATM in a mess
News Analysis - Comments (6) August 23, 2001 : One more push and the startup will have closed a $40M Series C round
News Analysis - Comments (20) August 22, 2001 : The optical equipment market is in decline, but Lucent is gaining market share, according to Dell'Oro
News Analysis - Comments (31) August 22, 2001 : Analysts agree that metro Ethernet is coming but argue about when, where, and how
News Analysis - Comments (6) August 22, 2001 : They're loosening their purse strings, according to a Deloitte & Touche poll
News Analysis - Comments (5) August 22, 2001 : 4,536 jobs lost in the US at Agilent, Fujitsu, and Metro-Optix
News Analysis - Comments (3) August 21, 2001 : Sycamore's revenues continue to dive; Sirocco founder heads out
News Analysis - Comments (35) August 21, 2001 : Cisco took 5 percent of the core router market back from Juniper in the second quarter, says Infonetics
News Analysis - Comments (4) August 21, 2001 : Sorrento sees its revenues dropping 45 percent quarter-to-quarter
News Analysis - Post a comment August 21, 2001 : Startup Paracer has gone from inception to shipments of its parallel optics modules in just eight months
News Analysis - Post a comment August 21, 2001 : CIR says the market will take off in 2003 and early entrants will reap rewards
News Analysis - Post a comment August 21, 2001 : In what amounts to a spin-in, it's acquiring Onex, a switching silicon startup founded by ex TranSwitch staff
News Analysis - Comments (3) August 20, 2001 : Sigma Networks broadens its service offering, cozies up to Cisco
News Analysis - Comments (8) August 20, 2001 : Morgan Stanley sees weakness in the Layer 3 market as Cisco gets ready for a pricing war
News Analysis - Comments (20) August 20, 2001 : Santera nabs more than $100 million in funding, demonstrating continuing faith in God boxes
News Analysis - Comments (7) August 20, 2001 : A big customer win and a technology first aren't enough to buoy Riverstone's stock on a bleak day for switch vendors
News Analysis - Comments (7) August 20, 2001 : Unveils developments aimed at halving the number of chips in grooming switches while boosting performance
LR Mobile News Analysis - Post a comment August 20, 2001 : Announcing Unstrung Primers, the first in a series of useful overviews of the state of the wireless industry.
News Analysis - Comments (6) August 17, 2001 : Startup says it can make an equivalent tunable laser for one fifth the cost UPDATED 8/20 6pm EDT
News Analysis - Comments (12) August 17, 2001 : The deal with Teon is off and the company is going to shrink its technology to sell as a subsystem
News Analysis - Post a comment August 17, 2001 : Wall Street shrugs as Lucent has its debt covenants revised and looks forward to profitability in fiscal 2002
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