At the UBS Warburg Telecom conference, James Crowe vents on George Gilder

Photonex, led by MIT scientists and a bevy of Wellfleet alumni, aims to combine IP services with the optical core

American Broadband -- By Scott Clavenna

Atoga's software-savvy edge switch is expected to ship next year

Tony Werner becomes president and CEO of Aurora Networks

The Interoute deal fails to excite, but there may be more in store

Cyras has lost another top exec. Is the heat dissipating at the hot startup?

Components manufacturer targets the customer premises market

Ultra Fast Optical Systems is targeting 640 Gbit/s per wavelength

The former Redback CEO will be assuming the CEO post at long-distance amplifier maker Onetta, say sources

UPDATED: Shares of components maker Luminent price below expected range, then trade barely above $12

With another $100 million in its account and a product set to ship, can an IPO be far behind?

A metro optical startup with top talent, Jasmine plans to compete with Cisco, Cyras, Redback, et al.

It's increased 383% in a year, according to TeleGeography

Our online poll also indicates 73 percent of respondents are considering quitting

Company responds to investors after comments from Cisco caused its share price to plunge

Cisco at a Crossroads -- R. Scott Raynovich

Something optical, metropolitan, and cheap, s'il vous plait. Astral Point, perhaps?

The bankers set its price range for $13-$15 a share. The company waits to see if the market holds up

Its revenues are rocketing but its sexier products aren't selling

Its partnership with Kymata could get it off to a flying start

With more funding, and product trials coming soon, is Cinta, with its new CEO, gearing up to go public?

Its training and certification scheme is designed to entrench its market leadership.

UPDATED: The Wavelength Router and the ON15200 get their first customer -- but they aren't expected to ship until 2001

SSM Ventures spawns Verity Ventures, a $100 million+ fund dedicated to investing in Texas-based startups

Vinod Khosla is among those betting $25 million on automated interface card production

Cisco's quarter was just a little bit better than predicted -- as usual -- so what are investors fretting about?

Telica announces its first customer and is generating revenue. Might an IPO be around the corner?

Lucent's recent attempts to revamp bonus and options plans may be too little too late, say former employees

Calls into question competitors' ways of measuring switch capacity

Chip company adds to its networking processor portfolio by spending nearly $2 billion on SiByte

New developments could usher in reconfigurable optical networks

Large companies get more H-1B visas, but new law also makes it easy for startups to steal talent

UPDATED: Optical Communications Products, a Furukawa spinoff, trades as high as $20 in stock market debut

CEO Scott Kriens questions the rush to metro and hasn't decided how and when his company will go there

Riddling semiconductors with microscopic holes may be the key to making optical integrated circuits

Nortel sees more analyst backlash. It may be Nortel's sales structure that's causing the problems [UPDATED 11.3.00]

Despite telecom turbulence, small VCs such as Blueprint don't see the deals slowing down

Alcatel's new routers compete head to head with the same gear that its reselling from Juniper

Northpoint CEO blames analysts for her company's slide in shareprice

CodeStream is about to get $50 million to develop a low-cost alternative

Ballooning BGP routing tables could bring the Net to its knees within a couple of years