Convergent Pulls IPO
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March 30, 2001 : Another one bites the dust: Convergent pulls its $85M IPO from the calendar
Chinook Blows Into Town
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March 30, 2001 : Startup with MIT origins draws $17 million and an impressive executive team to pack more data into the last mile
Ellacoya Loses Sales VP
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March 30, 2001 : Ellacoya's sales VP bolts as product delivery schedule slips
Don Smith Leaves Nortel
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March 30, 2001 : One of the optical industry's leaders dials out of Nortel -- possibly for a startup -- as a reorg gets underway
LR Index Sinks to New Lows
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March 29, 2001 : The Light Reading Index plumbs the depths of gloom. Survival is the name of the game
ADC Woes Raise Venture Question
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March 29, 2001 : As ADC and other big firms downsize, their support of optical startups appears to be waning
Mayan Buys Ticker Symbol
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March 28, 2001 : A bid for liquidity? Startup Mayan buys the tiny public company Ariel
Is the Bloom off Jasmine?
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March 28, 2001 : Jasmine cuts staff by 25 percent and the CEO is gone. Did Nortel lead it astray? UPDATED 3/29/01 5pm EST
Cisco Cautious on VOIP
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March 28, 2001 : The telco world is in no rush to move voice traffic to the Internet, according to Cisco executives
Agere's Fistful of Dollars
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March 28, 2001 : The Agere IPO gets priced at $6 per share, raising $3.6 billion. Shares trade up slightly in NYSE debut UPDATED 2pm ET
MPLS Mavens Tout Progress
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March 27, 2001 : About the most interesting thing about the latest MPLS interoperability test is the list of participants
MEMS Make It Big?
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March 23, 2001 : A growing number of vendors are developing large MEMS-based optical switches
OFC's Hot Products
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March 22, 2001 : The new product demos and announcements that got the biggest buzz
OFC Report: Pick of the Papers
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March 22, 2001 : The crème de la crème of research and development projects, according to the conference program's panel of experts
The Booth Beauty Contest
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March 22, 2001 : Trade show booths should say a lot about a company. Sometimes they say too much
Raman Risks Emerge
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March 21, 2001 : Distributed Raman pumping might actually damage fiber and create safety hazards
OFC Report: Day Two
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March 20, 2001 : The roar of the transponders, the fear of the crowd
Crowds and Smoke Mark OFC
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March 20, 2001 : OFC, which expects 40,000 attendees this week in Anaheim, is booming. That's not to say everything went smoothly
Components Companies Chill Out
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March 20, 2001 : Corning forecast sends another chill though the components business. Better times are at least six months away
OFC Report: Day One
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March 19, 2001 : High-capacity 40-Gbit/s and DWDM component developments dominate the opening of the Optical Fiber Conference
Nortel Pumps a Bigger, Faster Core
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March 19, 2001 : Nortel announces the key pieces to its strategy for beefing up the network's core equipment to speeds of 40-Gbit/s
Novalux Details Laser Advance
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March 19, 2001 : Launches first product and describes technology -- some of it -- for making high-power, surface-emitting lasers
JDSU Readies OFC Blitz
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March 16, 2001 : A portfolio of 70 new products will push toward broader DWDM channel counts and 40 Gbit/s speeds
Movaz on the Move
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March 16, 2001 : Movaz Networks looks to be working on an optical transport switch based on G-MPLS
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