RIP Sycamore
Sycamore Networks Inc. filed for its certificate of dissolution at 5:00 p.m. Thursday, officially shutting the doors on what had been a high-flier of the optical boom of 1999 (and one of Light Reading's first sponsors, incidentally).
Here's a look back at the company that was so hotly watched in 1999 and so coolly ignored for the past several years.
The boom
- Top 10 Movers and Shakers in Optical Networking (January 2000)
- Sycamore Prices Public Offering (March 2000)
- Sycamore Comes to Town (May 2000)
The bust
- Light Dims for Optical Stocks (May 2000)
- Sycamore to Buy Sirocco for $2.9B (June 2000)
- Sycamore Waterlogged (2001)
- Sycamore Enters Crisis Mode (2001)
- No Riches from Optical Switches (2001)
- Sycamore Switches Focus (2002)
And then ...
- Will Sycamore Call It a Day? (2005)
- Sycamore: The Great Nothing (2005)
- Sycamore Slapped With Options Suit (2006)
- More Rotten Bark from Sycamore (2007)
- Sycamore's Freefall Continues (2008)
- Sycamore to Hand Out $289M (2012)
- Sycamore Prepares to Shut Down (2012)
- Tellabs vs. Sycamore (2013)
- Sycamore + NSN Optical = Coriant (2013)
- Sycamore Liquidation to Move Forward (2013)
— Craig Matsumoto, Managing Editor, Light Reading
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