Agere's Good Bad News
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June 29, 2001 : Agere cuts 4,000 jobs, consolidates its facilities, and writes off $900M. Wall Street saw it coming and sent the stock up
360networks Calls It Quits
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June 29, 2001 : In another sign of the times, the Canadian carrier's filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and Canada
Can Sycamore MIX it Up?
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June 28, 2001 : BellSouth lights up its Multimedia Internet Exchange (MIX). It's the first test of Sycamore's comeback with the SN16000
IPOptical Races the Clock
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June 28, 2001 : First, the startup battled Alcatel over intellectual property. Now the clock ticks as it looks for cash
CyOptics Claims Modulator Milestone
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June 28, 2001 : Hopes to show that indium phosphide will become the material of choice for 40-gig devices. Codeon begs to differ
Is Cabletron Back?
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June 28, 2001 : Cabletron's painful turnaround process -- built on a series of spinoffs -- finally appears to be bearing some fruit
Redback's Woes Mount
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June 27, 2001 : Redback Networks takes down quarterly earnings estimates some 30 percent
Intensive Care
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June 27, 2001 : Intense Photonics finally bags $11 million after a long wait
Chilling Optical Chip Dip
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June 27, 2001 : The losses in the communications semiconductor industry breed despair. But it's the last place to look for recovery
Riverstone Wins Big in Asia
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June 27, 2001 : Riverstone could have a new 10% customer: Today it announced a big deal with S. Korea's largest carrier
Zepton: Take Me to Your Leaders
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June 26, 2001 : Lightera founder Jagdeep Singh's got a new gig -- and Kleiner Perkins has funded it to the tune of $50M
Tachion Trolls for Cash
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June 26, 2001 : A week after a massive layoff, Tachion is trying to raise money and reinvent itself
Nortel 'Rightsizes' Terabit Router
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June 26, 2001 : Nortel's core routing efforts take another step back as company chops Optera Packet Core development staff in half
Planting for the Future
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June 25, 2001 : Alcatel and Lucent are in various stages of selling several manufacturing plants. Will it help?
iPolicy: IP Services on Speed
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June 25, 2001 : Company formed by merger of an Indian company and an American company touts services offered at gigabit speeds
Polaris Builds a God Box
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June 25, 2001 : It's an optical switch and a router and an ATM switch and, and, and...
Khosla is Still Cooking
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June 23, 2001 : The renowned VC is still dabbling with new startups while he's on sabbatical
Caspian Charges Hard
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June 22, 2001 : Agreements with AMCC, IBM, and Iona lend credibility to the company's claims
Sour Grapes of Roth
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June 22, 2001 : Why Qwest's Joseph Nacchio told Nortel's John Roth to stop snivelling
Dorado Unveils Per-User Provisioning
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June 21, 2001 : New software is supposed to put more control into the hands of end-users. But do carriers really want to do that?
WaveSmith Closes $31M Round
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June 21, 2001 : Edge switch startup bucks the down trend with an "up round" and a new lead investor
MRV Spinout Bound by Bonds
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June 20, 2001 : MRV evaluates its options on eliminating $90 million in debt, which is holding back its distribution of Luminent shares
Ciena Skeptics Emerge
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June 20, 2001 : Round of analyst downgrades reflects a common thought: How could they be immune to the telecom slump?
Tellabs Tanks on Warning
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June 20, 2001 : The revenue shortfall may be the least of its worries: Where are the new DWDM product sales?
DWDM Slump Temporary, Says Report
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June 20, 2001 : ElectroniCast says that the market for DWDM filters will grow more than 20 percent yearly for the next decade
Crunch Time at Tachion
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June 19, 2001 : After cutting more than half its employees and telling them funding efforts have failed, Tachion denies it's shutting down
Calient Cuts 60 Jobs
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June 19, 2001 : In spite of raising $225 million six months ago, the startup says it needs to cut costs
Luminous Rounds Up $80M
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June 19, 2001 : Metropolitan Ethernet equipment provider and recent Top Ten inductee Luminous scores a hefty round
A Copper and Cable Revival?
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June 19, 2001 : TollBridge and CopperCom land cash, but broadband IP voice players have the same challenges as everybody else
From Graphics to Optics
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June 18, 2001 : Creo looks to win new investors by building an optical switch built with bending fibers
Cirrex Tidies Up
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June 18, 2001 : Subsystem startup relaunches with former Nortel executive as CEO; refurbishes product plans
Broadcom Unveils NewPort Chip
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June 18, 2001 : Broadcom announces a 10-Gbit/s DWDM transport chip, its first offering from last year's NewPort acquisition
Zettacom Set to Score $47.5M
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June 18, 2001 : Startup says it's ready to go beta with a 1.7-Tbit/s switch fabric and accompanying traffic management chip
IBM Seeks Greenfield Pastures
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June 18, 2001 : IBM looks to adopt the specialized broadband services that Nortel, Lucent, and other vendors have had to abandon
Sun Setting on 360networks ?
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June 15, 2001 : The clock is ticking as the carrier misses a debt payment to conserve cash and search for last-minute options
Valiant Networks Regroups
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June 15, 2001 : Network consultancy cuts 30 percent of its staff and CEO resigns as it looks for a another round of funding
Nortel's Nuclear Winter
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June 15, 2001 : Capital spending implosion will translate into a $19.2B quarterly net loss and 10,000 more layoffs
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