Lucent Looks for More Cash
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July 31, 2001 : Lucent has announced it plans to raise $1 billion in convertible stock, but is the market willing?
Asia: Optical Boom or Bust?
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July 31, 2001 : Will equipment companies' reliance on Asian sales come back to haunt them? The pattern looks familiar
Cisco Picks New Marketing Exec
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July 31, 2001 : Latest scuttlebut: Sameer Padhye is new VP of service provider marketing; Kevin Kennedy chills talks with Redback
Motorola Deals for RiverDelta
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July 31, 2001 : Motorola agrees to shell out $300 million in stock to boost its cable equipment business
OnFiber: Bottoms Up!
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July 31, 2001 : Danny Bottoms has taken over as the startup service provider's fourth CEO, ending a period of strange goings-on
The Coolest Router on Earth?
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July 30, 2001 : Irvine Sensors bets $55 million that superconductor technologies will be the next wave for high-speed routers
OMM-inous News
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July 27, 2001 : OMM has halted development of 3D MEMS subsystems, casting a pall of gloom over other MEMS startups
Corvis's Future Brightens
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July 27, 2001 : Q2 results were on target, and two new customers and a reduction in spending should pay off in 2002
Nortel to Grab Koch?
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July 27, 2001 : The latest scuttlebutt says Roland Koch, fresh from Siemens ICN, could be Nortel's next CEO
VCs Turn to Triage
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July 27, 2001 : With investment slowing and returns down, VCs are turning their attention to maintaining their strongest portfolio members
Corning Touts China, Rips Analyst
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July 26, 2001 : Execs air their grievances with Morgan Stanley, saying fiber prices are stable and China is optical's future
Cisco's Kennedy Ready to Leave?
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July 26, 2001 : 'Atrocious' relationship with John Chambers has prompted exec to look at CEO position with Redback, sources say
Sycamore: Sick No More?
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July 26, 2001 : Not yet, but today's announcements of a significant new customer and product enhancements might help
New Focus Sees New Losses
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July 26, 2001 : New Focus sees growing revenues, but losses pile up as the company's orders plummet
Nokia Nabs Amber for $421M
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July 25, 2001 : Finnish wireless expert says it will use Amber's fault-tolerant router to build pure IP wireless networks
Cisco's Kennedy: Recruiter's Dream?
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July 25, 2001 : Cisco's service provider boss, Kevin Kennedy, is rumored to be in the running for top posts at Redback and Nortel
Procket Bulks Up
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July 25, 2001 : Router startup Procket recruits refugees from the public market, including former Extreme CFO Vito Palermo
Harmonic Earnings Fall Short
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July 25, 2001 : Losses are greater than expected but management assures that things will improve in the next two quarters
Levy's Lucent Call Boosts Stock
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July 25, 2001 : Insight or insanity? Lehman Brothers' analyst Steve Levy, an early Lucent critic, says shares may have hit bottom
Lucent's Hopes Dimming
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July 24, 2001 : Execs say Lucent's future depends on restructuring its credit facilities, paving the way for up to 20,000 more layoffs
Gennum Gets Dense
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July 24, 2001 : Company says it can boost the speed of electrical backplanes to 10.7 Gbit/s
What's Cooking at Kymata ?
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July 24, 2001 : Is the Scottish startup paving the way for a sale at a knockdown price?
Qwest Profits Shrink
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July 24, 2001 : Qwest's losses increase with a $3.75 billion charge, but data services revenue jumps
Agility Packs Three Into One
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July 23, 2001 : Unveils a tunable laser, amplifier, and modulator on a single piece of indium phosphide UPDATED 7/24 1:00 ET
Onex to Offer 'God Chip'
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July 23, 2001 : Startup outlines plans for a single programmable chip that handles circuits, cells, and packets natively
Startup Has a Crystal Ball
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July 23, 2001 : Photonic Materials gets $15 million to develop crystals for future optical components
Avici's Quarter Is All AT&T
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July 20, 2001 : Avici trims losses and grows revenue but still has only one paying customer and continues to burn cash
Has Nortel Hit Bottom?
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July 20, 2001 : Despite $19.4B quarterly net loss, execs say they've finished cost-cutting measures. The rest is up to the customers
PMC-Sierra Fights Inventory Glut
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July 20, 2001 : Posts record second-quarter losses, as supply-chain inventory buildup begins to slowly burn off
AT&T Launches GPRS
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July 20, 2001 : How much for the little packet? A question heard throughout Seattle.
Exar Teams Up on 10-Gig Chips
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July 19, 2001 : It's put $40 million into a network processor startup in an effort to grab a share of the OC192 market
Tellium Feels Alright
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July 19, 2001 : Just one quarter into their life as a public company, Tellium executives get bullish. They even raise guidance for 2001
Extreme Looks East
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July 18, 2001 : Extreme sees revenue growth in Asia, returns to pro forma profit after two difficult quarters; net losses continue
PMC Offers 'Cerent Chip'
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July 18, 2001 : Its latest silicon could help the competition get a leg up on Cisco's ONS 15454
Nortel Finds New Marketing Chief
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July 18, 2001 : Alan Kember, Nortel veteran, steps into the place evacuated by Anil Khatod last week **UPDATED**
Level 3 Earnings Disappoint
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July 18, 2001 : Excluding dark fiber sales, growth disappeared -- and so did customers. What's management excited about?
JDSU's Acquisition Hangover
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July 17, 2001 : JDSU still in talks with the SEC about how to take a $40 billion charge on goodwill; third-quarter restatement coming
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