Vendor Lawsuits Get Personal
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June 28, 2000 : Companies are gunning for individual employees who violate non-compete agreements
Sycamore Stretches
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June 27, 2000 : It's jumping on the ultra-long distance bandwagon
Mahi's Got a Big Fish to Fry
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June 23, 2000 : They've got $60 million and Goldman Sachs behind them. Is that enough to produce a "God box"?
DACS Sent Packing?
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June 23, 2000 : The digital cross-connect (DACS) market is morphing
Fiber to the People
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June 22, 2000 : Local organizations fight to light up their own optic links
Orchestream Banks on QoS
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June 21, 2000 : Institutional investors bought up shares in the quality of service (QoS) specialist today. Joe Public will get his turn next week
Pluris Is Back
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June 21, 2000 : After a year of keeping quiet, Pluris is finally getting ready to ship a super-scalable terabit router
Cisco's Second String
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June 21, 2000 : Cisco bought Cerent to get a foothold in the Sonet market, but it's still working on its Sonet killer - DPT
Fiber Components Excite VCs
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June 15, 2000 : Southampton Photonics raised a $55 million first round earlier this week. Here's why
Cinta's Strange Story
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June 15, 2000 : Did Cinta "give away the store" in order to get the backing of heavyweight VCs?
Alcatel Boxes Clever
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June 13, 2000 : It’s woefully late to market, but Alcatel’s decision to introduce a terabit router isn’t as dumb as it looks
Going Long On Light
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June 09, 2000 : Vendors are racing to make light signals go further
Booth Bandit Burgles Cyras
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June 08, 2000 : Vendor hints at industrial espionage, but its competitors think it's being paranoid
Fiber Queues Put Cablers in Control
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June 08, 2000 : The wait for fiber-optic cable lengthens, putting CLECs at the mercy of cable manufacturers and contractors
Charlotte's Web Weaves In TDM
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June 07, 2000 : Startup plans to integrate support for old school circuit-switched voice traffic into its router platform
Atmosphere On The Block?
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June 06, 2000 : They didn't bother to show up at Supercomm--and nobody's really sure who would buy them
Sycamore Gains Access
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June 06, 2000 : Chairman Desh Deshpande says that $2.9 billion wasn't too much to pay for Sirocco Systems
Lucent Quiets Terabit Router Rumors
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June 06, 2000 : Lucent Technologies demo'd its terabit router in public for the first time, dispelling rumors that the product is a lemon
Sycamore Demos Software Scalability
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June 06, 2000 : Its Supercomm demo addresses carrier concerns that optical nets could suffer scalability problems similar to frame relay's.
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