Agere cuts 4,000 jobs, consolidates its facilities, and writes off $900M. Wall Street saw it coming and sent the stock up
In another sign of the times, the Canadian carrier's filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and Canada
There's no end in sight for bandwidth boosting innovations, says Bell Labs
BellSouth lights up its Multimedia Internet Exchange (MIX). It's the first test of Sycamore's comeback with the SN16000
First, the startup battled Alcatel over intellectual property. Now the clock ticks as it looks for cash
Hopes to show that indium phosphide will become the material of choice for 40-gig devices. Codeon begs to differ
A poll of 300 carriers shows that storage services will represent a rising proportion of their revenues
Cabletron's painful turnaround process -- built on a series of spinoffs -- finally appears to be bearing some fruit
Redback Networks takes down quarterly earnings estimates some 30 percent
Intense Photonics finally bags $11 million after a long wait
The losses in the communications semiconductor industry breed despair. But it's the last place to look for recovery
Big companies are cutting thousands of jobs, but pinning down precise numbers is difficult
Riverstone could have a new 10% customer: Today it announced a big deal with S. Korea's largest carrier
Startup is already reaping significant revenues from PMD compensator components
Lightera founder Jagdeep Singh's got a new gig -- and Kleiner Perkins has funded it to the tune of $50M
A week after a massive layoff, Tachion is trying to raise money and reinvent itself
Nortel's core routing efforts take another step back as company chops Optera Packet Core development staff in half
Startup claims a unique approach to solving dispersion compensation woes on high-speed optical links
UPDATED 6/26 11am ET
Alcatel and Lucent are in various stages of selling several manufacturing plants. Will it help?
Company formed by merger of an Indian company and an American company touts services offered at gigabit speeds
It's an optical switch and a router and an ATM switch and, and, and...
The renowned VC is still dabbling with new startups while he's on sabbatical
Agreements with AMCC, IBM, and Iona lend credibility to the company's claims
Why Qwest's Joseph Nacchio told Nortel's John Roth to stop snivelling
Says it will be first out of the gate with products based on 1310nm VCSELs
After weeks of bad news, Multilink braves the troubled IPO market
New software is supposed to put more control into the hands of end-users. But do carriers really want to do that?
Rumors abound that Motorola is in acquisition talks with RiverDelta Networks
Better than expected first-quarter results suggest the metro market may be recovering
Components, Anyone? – Peter Heywood
Edge switch startup bucks the down trend with an "up round" and a new lead investor
TeraConnect and Blaze Networks have got some good news for monster router developers
MRV evaluates its options on eliminating $90 million in debt, which is holding back its distribution of Luminent shares
Round of analyst downgrades reflects a common thought: How could they be immune to the telecom slump?
The revenue shortfall may be the least of its worries: Where are the new DWDM product sales?
ElectroniCast says that the market for DWDM filters will grow more than 20 percent yearly for the next decade
After cutting more than half its employees and telling them funding efforts have failed, Tachion denies it's shutting down
In spite of raising $225 million six months ago, the startup says it needs to cut costs
Metropolitan Ethernet equipment provider and recent Top Ten inductee Luminous scores a hefty round
Carrier reassures investors that it's on track for 2001 growth targets
TollBridge and CopperCom land cash, but broadband IP voice players have the same challenges as everybody else
BrightLink's investors chip in for $35.8 million funding round; Schaller will stay on as CEO
Creo looks to win new investors by building an optical switch built with bending fibers
Subsystem startup relaunches with former Nortel executive as CEO; refurbishes product plans
Broadcom announces a 10-Gbit/s DWDM transport chip, its first offering from last year's NewPort acquisition
Level 3 lays off 23.7 percent of its workforce and warns that losses are mounting
Startup says it's ready to go beta with a 1.7-Tbit/s switch fabric and accompanying traffic management chip
IBM looks to adopt the specialized broadband services that Nortel, Lucent, and other vendors have had to abandon
Storage networking could be a $1.4 billion business for Cisco by 2004, says a Byte and Switch report
The clock is ticking as the carrier misses a debt payment to conserve cash and search for last-minute options
Network consultancy cuts 30 percent of its staff and CEO resigns as it looks for a another round of funding
Capital spending implosion will translate into a $19.2B quarterly net loss and 10,000 more layoffs
Xenpak, a strict multisource agreement for optical transceivers, will promote widespread adoption of 10-gigabit Ethernet
It's hoping to show that its tunable filters are better than those from Coretek, the startup acquired by Nortel
Components giant takes revenue estimates down another $100 million for the current quarter
With Corvis stock trading at an all-time low, insiders say the company has a France Telecom contract back on the table
Luminous makes a comeback onto Light Reading's Top Ten Private Companies list, following Tellium's exit with an IPO
Milton Chang's Incubic aims to put together a network of the leading fiber optic experts and investors
A packed room of investors looked for new information from a Cisco presentation. They were disappointed
LightPointe's patent could be bad news for other companies developing optical wireless systems
Quirky Texas company runs out of money while working on OCDMA technology, an alternative to metro DWDM
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New financial data for Brocade and Cisco show large sales by key investors. What gives?
Sorrento Networks wins a deal in Switzerland; stands by for additional financing
Greg Dougherty takes a more prominent role following the retirement of president Jay Abbe
Suggests that silicon chips will carry on getting smaller, faster, and cheaper for the foreseeable future
Extreme and Foundry both hint at an uptick in the Ethernet swtiching business. Extreme CFO: No pricing pressure
The European carrier says it's close to closing a $50 million round
Metro Ethernet gains steam as the Metro Ethernet Alliance joins the RPR Alliance in promoting standards
Expect some surprises at the upcoming National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) in Baltimore
Things are getting worse for Nortel. Is a warning ahead?
Results of a Light Reading poll indicate widespread belief that Ethernet will dominate metro networks
A new study by Light Reading's Optical Oracle shows some carriers may be strangled by their own long-haul links
Thoughts on Supercomm — Scott Clavenna
Stealthy Corrigent is planning a new take on the RPR Ethernet standard for carriers by adopting legacy telco features
UK optical switch startup brings in administrator, gets rid of CEO, as money starts running out
Revenue and profit shortfall in Q2 comes from shift of investement from the network core to the edge UPDATED 4PM ET
Chip maker's $225 million purchase of Lara Networks spearheads effort in packet-processing market
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's an optical switch with electrical interfaces
The chip maker builds a 160-Gbit/s add/drop mux as an evalution tool for itself and its customers
Opthos, a new metro DWDM player, takes its "all-optical" marketing shtick to the extreme at Supercomm
Nortel is using its low-cost tunable laser in a demo of metro developments
Nortel metro president Brian McFadden says Nortel's got to lead the way to a new era of bandwidth-enabled applications
Market for optical provisioning products from third-party software vendors takes time to develop
Flat earnings meet expectations; executives are more positive about the rest of the year
Marconi's Solstis group announces its first product, the UPLx160 ultra-long-haul optical transport product
Corning CEO talks about industry consolidation, cash, and China's telecom consumption binge -- UPDATED 06/08, 10:30 AM
Cisco's optical boss says component innovation and capital spending will stunt investment in the core
Startup headed by former Siara executive parades $62M in funding and a new manufacturing deal at Supercomm
Cisco adds OC192 (10 Gbit/s) capability to its Cerent box; intros routers geared toward service providers
Dueling claims and dirty tricks mar the Supercomm tradeshow, as the rivalry between Tellium and Ciena heats up
Lightchip's intelligent optical subsystems "add a brain" to Cisco gear
Paul Engle, who will take over the Avanex CEO post in July, says outsourcing and smart add/drop muxes are the future
Its MetroScout uses all-optical wavelength conversion to boost metro/access nets
After undergoing reverse merger, optical networking startup puts product development on hold, furloughs 80 employees
CoSine hopes to renew interest in its IP services product by adding capacity and more flexibility for upgrades
Deputy CEO says a Cisco takeover is unlikely -- and unwelcome
Demo of multivendor optical interoperability seems to be chiefly boothware
Dig This — Scott Clavenna
Another big name has agreed to test Light Management Group's acousto-optical switch
Kleiner Perkins-backed carrier startup, Zephion Networks, fires more than 350 employees and shuts its doors due to lack of funding
Its new switch router cuts colocation costs by packing 540 gigabit-Ethernet ports into a single rack
The optical networking startup layers in another technology, CWDM, to help with storage applications
The Scottish components startup is up for sale for £300 million (US$425M), reports say
Zadikian takes the helm at Metera Networks and warns that big core crossconnects are irrelevant
It's out to prove it's fixed the problem that led to its poor performance in Light Reading's core router test
With input from Cisco, Mitsubishi, and a range of VCs, Quake is focused on immediate optical needs: high-speed chips
The Siemens spinoff looks to build on its momentum by increasing density and adding VPN features to its edge router
