Semiconductor Merger Mania
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August 28, 2000 : $4.5-billion AMCC/MMC merger driven by the need for a full communications chip portfolio
JDSU and SDL: The Saga Continues
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August 25, 2000 : Analysts speculate that the DOJ could ask JDSU to sell off its chip manufacturing facility to make room for SDL
Nortel Mixes DWDM With IP
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August 24, 2000 : Combo lets carriers offer secure IP services over fiber, but reaction to announcement is muted
Cisco Takes a Dip
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August 22, 2000 : Are the days of Cisco's dominance of the core IP routing market numbered?
Quantum Bridge's Big Deal
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August 22, 2000 : A $50-million sale to ATG is the first big commercial PON contract
Alcatel Offers 10-Gig Ethernet Core
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August 31, 2000 : 10-Gigabit Ethernet MAC soft core available for licensing in Q3 2000, with a first release set for Q4
2000
Cisco to Pay $369M for PixStream
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August 31, 2000 : Cisco stock worth about $369 million will be exchanged for all
outstanding shares of PixStream, a provider of digital video solutions
Lucent Exec Moves to Astral Point
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August 29, 2000 : Roger J. Heinz, a former senior VP at Lucent, has joined the company in the new position of vice president, Western region sales
Calient Initiates Peering Program
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August 29, 2000 : Three-phase optical platform peering program to serve as foundation for aggressive interoperability testing
Redback Speeds Provisioning
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August 28, 2000 : Connection Manager promises reduction in bandwidth provisioning time "from months to seconds"
Cisco Enables Remote Testing
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August 28, 2000 : The first non-intrusive tool for service providers to test and monitor wavelengths in their core optical networks
Alcatel Announces MEMS Partner
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August 28, 2000 : Partnership with OMM comes only a few weeks after Alcatel backed bubbles for its optical switch developments
Sigma Systems Raises $20M
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August 24, 2000 : Kleiner Perkins, Redwood Ventures invest in service provisioning startup
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