Shares slashed 18 percent following earnings warning, downgrades

A flexible sheet of polymer could be a new wonder material for integrated optics

Siemens spinoff Optisphere is still unknown in the U.S. market. The new management team hopes to change that

The companies won't confirm, but industry sources think it likely Corning will buy Lucent's Optical Fiber division

Morgan Stanley, rather than Goldman Sachs, will be running the show. Rivalry with Ciena may be the reason

Startup will use the new funds to finish an optical packet node that supports metro Ethernet

Agility, Iolon, and New Focus are proposing a multisourcing agreement for widely tunable lasers

Startup hopes to copy the Juniper gameplan: Sneak up on the market leader as a slicker second source

Move puts Intel deeper into the communications chip space

OMM intends to ship a 64x64 subsystem before Lucent's spinoff

Mayan is the latest in a line of startups that are feeling the effects of CLEC woes

Onetta has finished building its management team and is rewarded with $56 million in VC funding

After skulking about for four years, Optical Switch has emerged with a $4,500 Kaleidoscope and other cool stuff

Puts cash into Iolon, which is going head to head with New Focus on widely tunable, high power lasers

Chorum, which has registered for an IPO, will supply Nortel with its Optical Slicer product for the next few years

Ups the ante with its oddly familiar 7600 OSR product

Former Siara architect Sanjeev Newarikar mixes DWDM into his recipe for next-gen Sonet boxes

Obtaining $6.5 billion in credit will aid restructuring, company says

Juniper's still eating into Cisco's share of the core router pie; Avici has shown up for orts UPDATED 2/23 3:00pm EST

Sign of continuing VC interest in startups developing the right components

After Avici's senior VP of sales leaves, company official says event is "not material" UPDATED 2/22 1pm EST

Schacht's shop turns toward debt management and public relations

Nortel CTO William R. Hawe has left under a cloud of speculation

Crossconnect vendor seeks to diversify its product suite

UPDATED: Figuring out where the holding company's revenues are coming from next is no easy task

Qwest's raising $3.25 billion by refinancing debt. But other carriers may not have such an easy time

Gtran Inc. has automated the manufacture of superfast electronic chips for tomorrow's transmission systems

The Light Reading Index takes another beating in early trading Tuesday

Scott Marshall joins startup working on long-haul transmission developments

Its PMD compensator aims to help carriers roll out big bandwidths over long distances

The remains of one ruined optical startup could bring new life to others

Wall Street wants revenues and products from IPO aspirants. Unisphere has them. And it may revive Argon

ONI's recent success hinges on many things -- but the key may be its impressive virtual manufacturing system

Nasdaq halts trading on Covad shares as the company prepares to restate earnings

It wasn't a lucky morning for a networking IPO, but Riverstone managed to get out -- and even go up UPDATED 2/16 4:10pm EST

A searing financial report piles on concerns about Cisco's future

In an alarming counterpoint to Ciena's earnings announcement, Nortel has slashed its growth estimates

FiberStreet has gone bust, one month after giving Zaffire a $20 million order

NUFO says it's made the first widely tunable laser that's powerful enough for long-haul networks

Ciena's customers are spending in order to save, says CEO Patrick Nettles

Some of the CLEC's assets are being siphoned into Zephion, a planned long-distance operator

Shedding Darwin on Light -- Stephen Saunders

A strong showing on Friday could open the door for other IPO aspirants. A feeble showing could slam it shut UPDATED 2/15 10:40am EST

The merger with SDL has been followed by a forecast of reduced profits

Investors continued to give Bookham a hard time after its earnings announcement. Are they missing something?

A slew of startups have gone bust recently, sending a warning that funding is getting more selective

Sycamore's earnings beat Wall Street estimates by a penny

ONI Systems buys faltering Finisar product line -- and secures a supply of components

Claims $100M deal is the largest Chinese optical contract to date, but it may not hold the record long

GiantLoop, an optical service provider, closes a $120M funding round UPDATED 2/13 4:30pm EST

Corvis equipment sends signals 6,400 kilometers over Williams's network

The Ethernet Revolution -- Scott Clavenna

Southampton Photonics says it's eliminated delays in making customized DWDM components

Chorum signals that it's still on track to go public soon with new hires and a filing update

The OIF has voted to give need more consideration when setting specs. Carriers say "Amen"

That's what the optical switch component and subsystem market will reach by 2010, according to ElectroniCast

Its investment in IMMI, a startup making low-loss MEMS subsystems, is about to be announced

The Kleiner Perkins VC has stepped down from Corvis's board of directors UPDATED 2/12/01

Cisco is developing a brand new optical switch, targeting the metro market UPDATED 2/9 4:55 pm EST

There's no news here, Lucent says. But mounting legal pressure may force the company to further action

U.K. startup service provider goes into provisional liquidation, creating waves across the pond

Top sales guy at Redback to become CEO at Procket Networks

All eyes will be on Riverstone next week as it takes the plunge into the icy IPO waters

ONI Systems beats expectations; CEO has fighting words for Cisco UPDATED 2/8 6pm EST

Corning's plunked down $1B on components manufacturing facilities in the last year -- and it's not done

Will refocusing be enough to get this switch vendor back on track?

Spinoff of Lucent's microelectronics division could be one of the largest IPOs in history

Its latest products promise to score a first in pumping 800 Gbit/s over 350km of plain fiber UPDATED 2/8 1pm EST

Startup mixes a software cocktail for the optical mesh network

Market reacts to Cisco's bad news: Growth is slowing faster than Cisco execs expected UPDATED 2/7 11am EST

Though venture investments in optical increased at the end of 2000, most expect a decline in 2001

Western CLEC picks Ciena, following an RFP that included Nortel, Sycamore, and Tellium

Ciena's completion of a $1.5 billion secondary offering shows the market is coming back for quality names

Cisco and Juniper veterans jump on board a company focusing on 10-Gbit/s optical Ethernet

In a move that enables the completion of JDSU's merger with SDL, Nortel acquires a DWDM laser facility

Another Ethernet-based service reaps a bumper crop of venture capital UPDATED 10:20am EST

Its influence over the Resilient Packet Ring standard may be strengthened by Mindspeed's chip announcement UPDATED 2/6 11:50am EST

Back-to-back deals spell competition for Cisco in the metro market

ThreeFive Photonics thinks it can succeed where others have failed -- making optical chips in indium phosphide

Company believes it's time for passive optical networking (PON) equipment to get more active

Founder Kurt Dobbins will give up the CEO spot to former Terra Lycos and 3Com executive Ron Sege

Yet another ISV offers carriers help setting up and activating optical networks. But much remains to be done

Équipe's cheeky recruiters did some flag-waving in IronBridge's parking lot on Wednesday, with good results

Concern about Sycamore's customers causes several Wall Street analysts to revise estimates

Ennovate's Texas R&D center won't hit the 100-person mark it projected in August

Roadshow starts today, marking the runup to the sale of 11.5 million shares at $11-$13 apiece

Juniper's Qwest announcement seems timed just right to dampen Cisco's OC192 putsch UPDATED 2/2/01 10am

Company takes advantage of a warming corporate bond market

Software provisions IP services using direct links to routers

Extreme's stock could prosper if it can extend its position in Layer 3 Ethernet switching to new markets

CIBC World Markets report forecasts big boom after that, as PON deployment in residential markets kicks in

Briefs journalists on 'breakthrough' optical switch that it didn't develop and doesn't sell