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ITU Aims at Optical Transport
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November 30, 2001 : New standards support protocols such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Sonet/SDH, ATM, Frame Relay, audio/video, and IP-based services
Riverstone Heads North, South
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November 30, 2001 : Opens new sales and technical service offices in Calgary, Alberta, and Sao Paulo, Brazil
Silicon Genesis: 'It's Wafer Thin'
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November 30, 2001 : Producing 'ultra-thin' SOI wafers with device layer thicknesses in the range of 15 to 50 nanometers for CMOS transistor devices
Sorrento Adds to Board
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November 30, 2001 : Donne F. Fisher, president of Fisher Capital Partners, and Robert L. Hibbard, special counsel to Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.
Tellabs to Acquire Ocular
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November 30, 2001 : Will acquire optical equipment company Ocular Networks for about $355 million in cash and options
SnowShore Scores More
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November 30, 2001 : Receives $5.6 Million of additional Series B funding from 3i; names Siroun (Sue) Agopian VP of worldwide sales
Infinite Dumps Plastic
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November 30, 2001 : Infinite Group announces closure of its Osley & Whitney plastics operations
Qusion Kicks Off Fund Drive
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November 30, 2001 : Has commenced raising $15 million C round of financing, expected to close in the first quarter of 2002
Broadwing Narrows
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November 30, 2001 : To close six enterprise sales branch offices, exit its construction line of business, cut headcount by approximately 900 people
Infonetics Sees Growth
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November 30, 2001 : If it changes color, they'll have it removed
Fitch Downgrades XO
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November 30, 2001 : Fitch has downgraded XO Communications' senior secured rating to CC from CCC- and its senior unsecured rating to D' from CC
Oki, NTT OEM BTG EAMs
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November 30, 2001 : BTG has signed licensing agreements with Oki Electric Industry Co. and NTT Electronics Corp. for electro-absorption modulator technology
Laser Diode Startup Gets Funding
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November 30, 2001 : Spinoff of Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Research, unique-m.o.d.e AG, gets unspecified amount of cash
Cable & Wireless to Acquire Exodus
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November 30, 2001 : Will take over all existing customer contracts plus 30 of Exodus's 44 data centers
BeamExpress Gets $4.5M
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November 30, 2001 : Swiss startup is making novel light emitting devices for metro and access applications
Marconians Get Options
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November 29, 2001 : Company's board has granted share options to 600 Marconi employees
Lucent Gets Smarts
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November 29, 2001 : Smarts Inc.'s InCharge product suite to be integrated into Lucent's global professional services offering
Extreme Offering Notes
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November 29, 2001 : Intends to offer up to $175 million of Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2006
HighWave Slims Down
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November 29, 2001 : To close two sites, reduce number of employees to approximately 160
WJ Adds Aluminum Nitride
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November 29, 2001 : WJ Communications introduces new polished aluminum nitride (AlN) thin film capability
Tunable Photonics Names VP
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November 29, 2001 : Raymond Niedzwiecki, from Global Opticom, named vice president of operations
ADC Announces Earnings, Contract Win
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November 29, 2001 : Fourth-quarter 2001 results in line with Wall Street estimates; Cox Communications to deploy ADC's FastFlow broadband provisioning manager
Harmonic Demos Cable Solution
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November 29, 2001 : End-to-end solution delivers video-over-IP, voice-over-IP, and high-speed data using Ethernet via fiber-to-the-business/home
Appian Wins Big NTT Order
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November 29, 2001 : Multimillion-dollar order for its Optical Services Activation Platform™ (OSAP™) and AppianVista™ Services and Element Manager
Mockingbird Appoints Market Boss
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November 29, 2001 : Jay Kimball, from ADC Telecommunications, named vice president of marketing and business development
Emcore Posts Q4 Results
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November 29, 2001 : Revenues increase 41% to $48 million; record fiscal year revenues exceed $185 million
NetSilicon Posts Q3 Results
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November 29, 2001 : Company hits revenue target; discusses benefits of proposed merger with Digi International
Alcatel Sets a Record
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November 29, 2001 : Transports 3.65 Tbit/s capacity (365 x 10 Gbit/s) over 6,850 km on a single fiber
Juniper Unveils IPv6 Routers
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November 29, 2001 : Industry's first production-ready implementation of IPv6 capabilities across all five of its M-series Internet access and core routers
Jedai Unveils Access Kit
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November 29, 2001 : The FrontRunner 3200 integrates IP/datacom and telecom technologies
Pacific Broadband Has MPLS Solution
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November 29, 2001 : Open access solution combines PBC's wirespeed edge router CMTS with Juniper Networks M series routers
ADC to Span Australia
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November 29, 2001 : ADC to provide fiber connectivity equipment for Visionstream's Nextgen Networks project
ExceLight Intros 10-Gig Laser
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November 29, 2001 : ExceLight Communications introduces 10-Gbit/s direct modulation, Fabry-Perot, uncooled laser diode with integral laser driver
Picolight Picks Lambda Technologies
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November 29, 2001 : Picolight has selected Lambda Technologies' Rapid MicroCure system for the development of VCSEL-based products
GigaTera Gets Cypress Cash
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November 28, 2001 : Has received an investment of $2 million from Cypress Semiconductor and its wholly owned subsidiary Silicon Light Machines
Wave7 Blitzes Last Mile
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November 28, 2001 : Launches Last Mile Link Architecture, Last Mile Gateway customer premises, and Last Mile Core bandwidth management devices
Harmonic Has Tunable Transmitter
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November 28, 2001 : Node-based, DWDM, tunable, return-path transmitters for HFC networks
Optical Solutions Names VP
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November 28, 2001 : Brian Brown has been appointed vice president of sales and business development
Packet Design Gets Sun Funds
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November 28, 2001 : Multimillion-dollar investment from Sun Microsystems is Packet Design's first from a corporate source
Riverstone Routes Cox
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November 28, 2001 : Cox Communications will deploy hundreds of Riverstone RS metropolitan routers throughout all 28 of its US cable systems
Infineon Announces Chips
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November 28, 2001 : New family of telephony chips for next-gen packet-based telecom networks; new version of its ATM Buffer Manager
Applied Materials Nitridates
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November 28, 2001 : Introduces the DPN (Decoupled Plasma Nitridation) chamber for fabrication of transistor gate dielectric structures in chips
Coventor, Colibrys Collaborate
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November 28, 2001 : Have entered into joint development and preferred manufacturing partnership agreements for MEMS development
Aversano Joins Aplion
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November 28, 2001 : Aplion Networks appoints Nina Aversano, former Lucent senior executive, to its board of directors
Cramer Delivers Netcool
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November 28, 2001 : Integrated solution between Cramer Dimension and Micromuse's Netcool suite
Global Crossing Shuffles Boards
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November 28, 2001 : Global Crossing and Asia Global Crossing announce changes to their boards of directors to reduce the amount of overlap
Finisar Finishes Q2
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November 27, 2001 : Revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2002 of $35.1 million were down 21% from the year-ago period but up 3% on a sequential basis
RHK Appoints CEO
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November 27, 2001 : Former Gartner Executive Marc Litvinoff
Tellium Boosts Market Share
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November 27, 2001 : RHK predicts Tellium will increase its share of the global optical core switching market in 2001 by more than 50 percent from a year ago
Level 3 Wins AOL Contract
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November 27, 2001 : America Online purchases wavelengths and private lines from Level 3 along multiple routes in North America and Europe
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