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Articles published in November 2001

ITU Aims at Optical Transport


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November 30, 2001 : New standards support protocols such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Sonet/SDH, ATM, Frame Relay, audio/video, and IP-based services

Riverstone Heads North, South


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November 30, 2001 : Opens new sales and technical service offices in Calgary, Alberta, and Sao Paulo, Brazil

Silicon Genesis: 'It's Wafer Thin'


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November 30, 2001 : Producing 'ultra-thin' SOI wafers with device layer thicknesses in the range of 15 to 50 nanometers for CMOS transistor devices

Sorrento Adds to Board


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November 30, 2001 : Donne F. Fisher, president of Fisher Capital Partners, and Robert L. Hibbard, special counsel to Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.

Tellabs to Acquire Ocular


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November 30, 2001 : Will acquire optical equipment company Ocular Networks for about $355 million in cash and options

SnowShore Scores More


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November 30, 2001 : Receives $5.6 Million of additional Series B funding from 3i; names Siroun (Sue) Agopian VP of worldwide sales

Infinite Dumps Plastic


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November 30, 2001 : Infinite Group announces closure of its Osley & Whitney plastics operations

Qusion Kicks Off Fund Drive


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November 30, 2001 : Has commenced raising $15 million C round of financing, expected to close in the first quarter of 2002

Broadwing Narrows


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November 30, 2001 : To close six enterprise sales branch offices, exit its construction line of business, cut headcount by approximately 900 people

Infonetics Sees Growth


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November 30, 2001 : If it changes color, they'll have it removed

Fitch Downgrades XO


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November 30, 2001 : Fitch has downgraded XO Communications' senior secured rating to CC from CCC- and its senior unsecured rating to D' from CC

Oki, NTT OEM BTG EAMs


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November 30, 2001 : BTG has signed licensing agreements with Oki Electric Industry Co. and NTT Electronics Corp. for electro-absorption modulator technology

Laser Diode Startup Gets Funding


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November 30, 2001 : Spinoff of Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Research, unique-m.o.d.e AG, gets unspecified amount of cash

Cable & Wireless to Acquire Exodus


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November 30, 2001 : Will take over all existing customer contracts plus 30 of Exodus's 44 data centers

BeamExpress Gets $4.5M


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November 30, 2001 : Swiss startup is making novel light emitting devices for metro and access applications

Marconians Get Options


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November 29, 2001 : Company's board has granted share options to 600 Marconi employees

Lucent Gets Smarts


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November 29, 2001 : Smarts Inc.'s InCharge product suite to be integrated into Lucent's global professional services offering

Extreme Offering Notes


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November 29, 2001 : Intends to offer up to $175 million of Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2006

HighWave Slims Down


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November 29, 2001 : To close two sites, reduce number of employees to approximately 160

WJ Adds Aluminum Nitride


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November 29, 2001 : WJ Communications introduces new polished aluminum nitride (AlN) thin film capability

Tunable Photonics Names VP


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November 29, 2001 : Raymond Niedzwiecki, from Global Opticom, named vice president of operations

ADC Announces Earnings, Contract Win


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November 29, 2001 : Fourth-quarter 2001 results in line with Wall Street estimates; Cox Communications to deploy ADC's FastFlow broadband provisioning manager

Harmonic Demos Cable Solution


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November 29, 2001 : End-to-end solution delivers video-over-IP, voice-over-IP, and high-speed data using Ethernet via fiber-to-the-business/home

Appian Wins Big NTT Order


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November 29, 2001 : Multimillion-dollar order for its Optical Services Activation Platform™ (OSAP™) and AppianVista™ Services and Element Manager

Mockingbird Appoints Market Boss


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November 29, 2001 : Jay Kimball, from ADC Telecommunications, named vice president of marketing and business development

Emcore Posts Q4 Results


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November 29, 2001 : Revenues increase 41% to $48 million; record fiscal year revenues exceed $185 million

NetSilicon Posts Q3 Results


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November 29, 2001 : Company hits revenue target; discusses benefits of proposed merger with Digi International

Alcatel Sets a Record


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November 29, 2001 : Transports 3.65 Tbit/s capacity (365 x 10 Gbit/s) over 6,850 km on a single fiber

Juniper Unveils IPv6 Routers


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November 29, 2001 : Industry's first production-ready implementation of IPv6 capabilities across all five of its M-series Internet access and core routers

Jedai Unveils Access Kit


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November 29, 2001 : The FrontRunner 3200 integrates IP/datacom and telecom technologies

Pacific Broadband Has MPLS Solution


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November 29, 2001 : Open access solution combines PBC's wirespeed edge router CMTS with Juniper Networks M series routers

ADC to Span Australia


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November 29, 2001 : ADC to provide fiber connectivity equipment for Visionstream's Nextgen Networks project

ExceLight Intros 10-Gig Laser


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November 29, 2001 : ExceLight Communications introduces 10-Gbit/s direct modulation, Fabry-Perot, uncooled laser diode with integral laser driver

Picolight Picks Lambda Technologies


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November 29, 2001 : Picolight has selected Lambda Technologies' Rapid MicroCure system for the development of VCSEL-based products

GigaTera Gets Cypress Cash


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November 28, 2001 : Has received an investment of $2 million from Cypress Semiconductor and its wholly owned subsidiary Silicon Light Machines

Wave7 Blitzes Last Mile


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November 28, 2001 : Launches Last Mile Link Architecture, Last Mile Gateway customer premises, and Last Mile Core bandwidth management devices

Harmonic Has Tunable Transmitter


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November 28, 2001 : Node-based, DWDM, tunable, return-path transmitters for HFC networks

Optical Solutions Names VP


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November 28, 2001 : Brian Brown has been appointed vice president of sales and business development

Packet Design Gets Sun Funds


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November 28, 2001 : Multimillion-dollar investment from Sun Microsystems is Packet Design's first from a corporate source

Riverstone Routes Cox


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November 28, 2001 : Cox Communications will deploy hundreds of Riverstone RS metropolitan routers throughout all 28 of its US cable systems

Infineon Announces Chips


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November 28, 2001 : New family of telephony chips for next-gen packet-based telecom networks; new version of its ATM Buffer Manager

Applied Materials Nitridates


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November 28, 2001 : Introduces the DPN (Decoupled Plasma Nitridation) chamber for fabrication of transistor gate dielectric structures in chips

Coventor, Colibrys Collaborate


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November 28, 2001 : Have entered into joint development and preferred manufacturing partnership agreements for MEMS development

Aversano Joins Aplion


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November 28, 2001 : Aplion Networks appoints Nina Aversano, former Lucent senior executive, to its board of directors

Cramer Delivers Netcool


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November 28, 2001 : Integrated solution between Cramer Dimension and Micromuse's Netcool suite

Global Crossing Shuffles Boards


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November 28, 2001 : Global Crossing and Asia Global Crossing announce changes to their boards of directors to reduce the amount of overlap

Finisar Finishes Q2


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November 27, 2001 : Revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2002 of $35.1 million were down 21% from the year-ago period but up 3% on a sequential basis

RHK Appoints CEO


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November 27, 2001 : Former Gartner Executive Marc Litvinoff

Tellium Boosts Market Share


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November 27, 2001 : RHK predicts Tellium will increase its share of the global optical core switching market in 2001 by more than 50 percent from a year ago

Level 3 Wins AOL Contract


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November 27, 2001 : America Online purchases wavelengths and private lines from Level 3 along multiple routes in North America and Europe
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