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Cisco Buys A Net Management Bargain
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March 02, 2000 : Its acquisition of Atlantech Technologies for $180 million could give its carrier equipment a key advantage over competitors
Corning Hits Its Stride
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March 01, 2000 : Stock breaks $200 barrier following vendor’s fourth acquisition in two months
Adva Gives Its DWDM More Carrier Appeal
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February 29, 2000 : Its planned acquisition of Storage Area Networks Ltd should help carriers make more money out of high bandwidth access nets
Vendors To Spin Off Optical Assets
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February 28, 2000 : Big vendors like Siemens and Lucent may float their subsidiaries to cash in on the investor feeding frenzy for all things optical
CyOptics Targets 40 Gbit/s DWDM Components
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February 27, 2000 : Startup uses Indium Phosphide to increase bandwidth per channel from today's 2.5 and 10 Gbit/s rates
Eurologic Demos 2Gb/s Fibre Channel SAN
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February 25, 2000 :
Siemens Launches Optical Cross Connect “Solution”
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February 25, 2000 : In reality, the TransXpress Optical Service Node is more of a patch panel
Dynarc Brings Quality Control to MANs
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February 24, 2000 : Its Dynarc 50 access switch lets carriers offer different grades of IP service for different apps.
Alcatel Buys Newbridge
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February 23, 2000 : $7 billion deal could give French equipment manufacturer a way to play in North America, but it’s more bad news for Siemens
Is Lumenon's Share Price Set to Soar?
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February 22, 2000 : It's about to unveil developments that could strengthen its hopes of becoming the Intel of optical integrated circuits
Microsoft Goes Off Message
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February 22, 2000 : Breaks silence on optical networking -- crams two feet into mouth
Service Provisioning, European-Style
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February 21, 2000 : ECI's new multi-service provisioning platform helps carriers migrate customers from modest to mammoth bandwidths, while slashing costs
Is Cisco Buying the Wrong Startup?
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February 18, 2000 : Acquiring Growth Networks will help Cisco build a real Terabit router, but would Power X have been a better buy?
Ferrule Famine Hits Optical Industry
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February 17, 2000 : The furious pace of network rollouts is leading to shortages of components, including fiber
Cisco Buys Growth, Literally
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February 16, 2000 : Its planned acquisition of Growth Networks, a switching fabric startup, could help it deliver real Terabit routers
Yipes Bets Big on Gig
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February 15, 2000 : Startup service provider thinks high-speed Ethernet will be a hit in MANs – but it can’t support voice or video traffic
Aprisma Bids For Management Dominance
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February 14, 2000 : The Cabletron spin-off thinks optical networks could light its way to a hot IPO – but will vendors and service providers buy what it’s selling?
Gigabit Ethernet Goes Carrier Class
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February 14, 2000 : Gigabit Ethernet over Sonet developments from Sycamore promise to slash the cost of providing managed IP services
Banned X
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February 13, 2000 : Short change this outfit and the world will know
10-Gigabit Ethernet Gets Marketing Muscle
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February 11, 2000 : Vendors have mobilized their marketing machines to launch an alternative to Sonet
Cisco, Juniper, Lock Down Internet Router Market
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February 10, 2000 : Between them the two vendors account for 92 percent of sales. Other players are nowhere in sight
Silkroad Twists and Turns
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February 09, 2000 : New management, new message -- same problems
Battle Begins Between FDM Twins
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February 08, 2000 : Two vendors are working on bandwidth boosting products based on the same technology
Avanex: Is it Worth $10 Billion?
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February 07, 2000 : Investors stampeding to buy shares in the hot optical component startup ignored warnings in its IPO prospectus.
Researchers Unveil All-Optical Advances
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February 04, 2000 : Tunable laser developments eliminate cross-connects, make optical packet switching possible.
Tenor Builds A Network Toll Booth
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February 03, 2000 : Startup claims its 'Optical Service Switch' is the missing link in the service-provisioning puzzle
Circuit Switching is Back
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February 02, 2000 : Startups are developing a new form of the old technology, targeting Gigabit speeds
Unisphere Trips, Stumbles
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February 01, 2000 : Two of its three aquisitions are late to market
Crunch Time for Signaling Standard
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February 01, 2000 : The OIF meets today to try and regain the initiative on a key standard for the future.
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