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