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Articles published in August 2000

Telseon to Lease Metromedia Fiber


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August 31, 2000 : $32M agreement expands Telseon's fiber footprint in key U.S. metro areas

Alcatel Offers 10-Gig Ethernet Core


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August 31, 2000 : 10-Gigabit Ethernet MAC soft core available for licensing in Q3 2000, with a first release set for Q4 2000

Focal in Router Deal With Juniper


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August 31, 2000 : Focal will deploy more than 70 Juniper M20 Internet backbone routers in its Focal Internet eXchanges (FIXs) across the country

FLAG to Deploy Juniper Routers


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August 31, 2000 : Juniper to supply M20 Internet backbone routers to be deployed in FLAG Telecom's global IP backbone

ADC Invades Europe


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August 31, 2000 : Expands broadband capabilities into Europe with acquisition of France Electronique's telecom systems integration business

Cisco to Pay $369M for PixStream


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August 31, 2000 : Cisco stock worth about $369 million will be exchanged for all outstanding shares of PixStream, a provider of digital video solutions

Tektronix Unveils Jitter Test Product


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August 31, 2000 : Digital Phase Analysis jitter and synchronization testing technology employs silicon germanium

360networks Adds 11 Thousand Miles


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August 31, 2000 : Will pay Call-Net Enterprises US$162.5 million for dark fiber connecting more than 20 cities in N. America

Corning Boosts PurePath Production


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August 31, 2000 : Will invest $20M in PurePath Dynamic Spectral Equalizer and Wavelength Selective Switch manufacture

Zenastra Unveils Optical Components


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August 30, 2000 : Zenastra is introducing four integrated passive optical components that will lead to larger scale integrated passive devices

Nortel/Alteon Merger Accelerated


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August 29, 2000 : Federally mandated waiting period terminated as of August 28

Nortel Intros Wavelength Management


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August 29, 2000 : Enables light to be effectively distributed by color or wavelength so customers can obtain and control the bandwidth they want

Lucent Exec Moves to Astral Point


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August 29, 2000 : Roger J. Heinz, a former senior VP at Lucent, has joined the company in the new position of vice president, Western region sales

EPIK Doubles Footprint


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August 29, 2000 : Through an agreement with Digital Teleport, EPIK added 2,922 miles of dark fiber reaching customers in 10 major metropolitan areas

Calient Expands Leadership Team


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August 29, 2000 : Appointment of Terry Gibson as chief financial officer and Greg Partalis as vice president of sales

Calient Initiates Peering Program


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August 29, 2000 : Three-phase optical platform peering program to serve as foundation for aggressive interoperability testing

WaveSplitter Demos 160 Channel DeMux


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August 28, 2000 : Uses WaveProcessorTM interleavers and AWGs from NEC Corporation to separate 160 DWDM channels

Trellis Touts "Electroholography"


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August 28, 2000 : Electroholography(TM) is an all-optical solution for switching technology based on an innovation in the field of solid-state physics

Eluminant Upgrades Its Vista Mux


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August 28, 2000 : Version 2.1 includes a robust assortment of features that benefit the space, speed, and functionality requirements of service providers

Corvis Unveils Optical Protector


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August 28, 2000 : Allows for a wide spectrum of protection and restoration schemes for both OC48/STM-16 and OC-192/STM-64 services

16-Port OC3 Transponder From Astral


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August 28, 2000 : The new transponder combines 16 separate OC3 Sonet channels into a single OC48 Sonet wavelength

Kymata Offers New Power Monitor


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August 28, 2000 : Multichannel Wavelength Power Monitor promises high-performance monitoring to provide accurate optical power levels

Sheinbein Joins CyOptics Board


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August 28, 2000 : Sheinbein is currently AT&T Vice President for Network Architecture and Development

Ciena Expands Its Toolkit


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August 28, 2000 : Ciena has added rate-adaptive gigabit Ethernet technology to the LightWorks Toolkit™ for optical services

Redback Speeds Provisioning


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August 28, 2000 : Connection Manager promises reduction in bandwidth provisioning time "from months to seconds"

Terawave Demos PON System


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August 28, 2000 : Terawave's multispeed PON platform allows the 155- and 622-Mbit/s PON cards to be mixed in the Terawave OLTs (Optical Line Terminals)

Cisco Enables Remote Testing


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August 28, 2000 : The first non-intrusive tool for service providers to test and monitor wavelengths in their core optical networks

Applied Micro to Buy MMC for $4.5B


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August 28, 2000 : AMCC will issue 0.619 shares of its common stock for each common share of MMC stock

Lynx Previews Photon X-8 Switch


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August 28, 2000 : Features include non-blocking operation, reconfiguration time of less than 2ms, dynamic power control, and weighted multicasting

40-Channel AWG From Lightwave Micro


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August 28, 2000 : Aimed at putting up to 40 channels on a single fiber, the AWGs are currently available in 32 and 40 channels in 100 GHz spacing

New Wavelength Muxes From ONI


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August 28, 2000 : The Sonet/SDH and the data multiplex products let carriers pack up to 16 lower-speed channels into a single wavelength

Alcatel Announces MEMS Partner


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August 28, 2000 : Partnership with OMM comes only a few weeks after Alcatel backed bubbles for its optical switch developments

Axsun Launches Tiny Optical Analyzer


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August 28, 2000 : Paves the way for optical channel monitoring to be widely deployed in existing equipment

Tsunami Plans CWDM Chips


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August 28, 2000 : Targets coarse wavelength=division multiplexing and optical ASICs

Major Expansion at CiDRA


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August 25, 2000 : More than doubling its Connecticut manufacturing operations to approximately 190,000 square feet by yearend

Finisar Announces "Smart" Transceiver


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August 24, 2000 : It operates at data rates up to 1.25 Gbit/s on both 3.3V and 5.0V power supplies, at temperatures from -10C to +85C

Sigma Systems Raises $20M


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August 24, 2000 : Kleiner Perkins, Redwood Ventures invest in service provisioning startup

Siara Visionary Unveils Startup


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August 24, 2000 : Sanjeev Newarikar heads up Cratos Networks, developing metro switch

ONI in $30M Japan Internet Deal


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August 24, 2000 : Internet Initiative Japan will spend $30 Million on ONI's Dynamic Transport System

Corning Introduces 3G LEAF Fiber


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August 24, 2000 : Third-generation LEAF fiber enables longer transmission distances, higher bit rates, and lower cost

Corvis Reports $100M 2Q Loss


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August 24, 2000 : Corvis had a net loss of $100.7M, or $2.51 per share, compared with a loss of $14.3M, or $0.55 per share, for the year ago quarter

Siemens DWDM Sales Soar


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August 23, 2000 : 160-channel system will ship in "early 2001"

Inktomi, Adero, AOL Form Alliance


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August 23, 2000 : Targets content distribution over the Net

Tundra Announces Record Earnings


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August 23, 2000 : 1Q revenue was $14 million, up 62% from 1Q 2000; net earnings were up 117% to $1.8 million

Corvis Names VP for Global Sales


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August 23, 2000 : Rick Bakosh, formerly of Tellabs, will lead the development of all sales opportunities for Corvis

Infonetics Sees Spurt in Tier 2 Outlays


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August 23, 2000 : U.S. Tier 2 service provider network equipment expenditures will grow 110% between now and 2004, from $3.1 billion to $6.5 billion

Optical Components Startup Raises $21M


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August 23, 2000 : Tellamon Photonic Networks Inc. announces $31M (US$21M) financing round led by National Bank Financial

MFN Announces Major PAIX Buildout


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August 23, 2000 : Deployment of PAIX neutral Internet exchange to six more cities in the U.S. and Europe by year's end

Ciena to Light Mexican Network


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August 23, 2000 : Protel to light optical Internet connecting 17 Mexican cities with Ciena's LightWorks products

Coriolis Closes $20M Second Round


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August 22, 2000 : Will fund further development of metro gear
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