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Where Copper Meets Glass
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June 30, 2000 : PONs and DSL: The Odd Couple?
Recruitment Packages Balloon
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June 29, 2000 : Options not enough? Try an interest-free loan
Juniper-Nortel "Alliance" Gives Pause
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June 29, 2000 : [Updated 3:50 PM ET] Nortel will sell Juniper routers
Vendor Lawsuits Get Personal
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June 28, 2000 : Companies are gunning for individual employees who violate non-compete agreements
Optical Mania in Texas
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June 28, 2000 : Iris project looks to launch companies in clusters
Orchestream Gets A Flying Start
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June 28, 2000 : Price leaps from 200 to 313 pence on its stock market debut
Wall Street says 'Whoa' to Williams
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June 27, 2000 : Company wants to spend another $1 billion on capacity--but earnings expectations and stock price sink
Orchestream Models Its Makeover
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June 27, 2000 : Vendor reinvented itself in readiness for tomorrow's public offering
Billing: Big Trouble for Carriers
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June 27, 2000 : Mergers may hamper revenue collection.
Sycamore Stretches
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June 27, 2000 : It's jumping on the ultra-long distance bandwagon
Methode Taps into Optical Madness
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June 26, 2000 : Stratos Lightwave set to give parent company some IPO pop
Lucent Invests in ISPSoft
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June 26, 2000 : A dive into IP provisioning software leaves some questions.
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
JDSU/E-Tek Merger Approved: No Surprises
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June 23, 2000 : Investors even seem a little bored with the news
Fiber to the People
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June 22, 2000 : Local organizations fight to light up their own optic links
Tulsa Outage Serves As Warning
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June 22, 2000 : Underscores importance of reliability in high bandwidth backbones.
Atmosphere Comes Back to Earth
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June 22, 2000 : Ditech buys the beleaguered startup for $85.5 million in stock and $10 million in cash
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
Optical Switches Go Acoustic
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June 20, 2000 : Two vendors are developing technologies that use sound waves to switch light.
Novalux Promises Cheaper Lasers
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June 20, 2000 : Startup scales up LAN technology to address cost cutting requirement in metro nets.
Vendors Ramp Up Fiber Production
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June 19, 2000 : Even so, demand still seems likely to outstrip supply for the foreseeable future.
More Optical Vendors Report Break-Ins
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June 19, 2000 : Kymata and Quantum Bridge also have had their trade show displays tampered with
Corvis Sets Price Range for IPO
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June 19, 2000 : Shares to be priced at $13-$15, raising $400 million
Corvis-Sycamore Battle Looms
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June 16, 2000 : Public investors to get more choices in a nascent market
Équipe Hints at Software Edge
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June 16, 2000 : Moves to wire optical edge switch for applications
Nortel Extends Optical Lead
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June 15, 2000 : Market share grows from 28 percent to 37 percent
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?
Cosine Spreads the Wealth
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June 14, 2000 : Six potential customers and options all around
Vendors Serve Up Provisioning Smorgasbord
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June 14, 2000 : Service provisioning is supposed to help carriers make money, but currently this market is a ball of hair
Why Optical Switches Can't Fail
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June 14, 2000 : If they ever did, carriers would lose revenues of tens of thousands of dollars a second.
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
Switch Startup Raises MEMS Questions
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June 12, 2000 : If Integrated Micromachines is right, then most other vendors are using the wrong type of tilting mirrors
Estrin Launches "Perpetual Startup"
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June 12, 2000 : The serial entrepreneur and ex-Cisco CTO is starting Packet Design, an incubator with a difference
Components Shortage Delays Deliveries
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June 12, 2000 : Old economy production lines can't keep pace with demand.
Going Long On Light
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June 09, 2000 : Vendors are racing to make light signals go further
Doctor Huber's Revenge
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June 09, 2000 : Corvis IPO could attain $15 billion market cap
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
SuperComm Halls Fill With Screams
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June 07, 2000 : What a scream! Calient and net.com have announced technologies with the same name
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
Amber Illuminates Edge Product
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June 06, 2000 : The company hopes a bigger, badder edge router will outgroom Cisco
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.
Agilent Tester Breaks New Ground
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June 06, 2000 : Integration of router emulation from Qosnetics enables real-world terabit router testing.
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