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
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
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?
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
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.
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
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