Wall Street shrugs as Lucent has its debt covenants revised and looks forward to profitability in fiscal 2002

As Ciena's stock plummets, Ciena's leader justifies future growth in the optical market

Long-haul's down, metro hopes are high -- and the Cyras crew has exited stage left

In the shrinking market, VCs get creative, steering startups toward enterprise customers or unsolved problems

Former FCC chairman points to fundamentals that indicate the telecom industry will rebound

Internet guru Larry Roberts says Internet traffic is doubling every six months. Real numbers or just marketing hype?

Resilient Packet Ring technology provokes a rush of protests, questions, and comments at Opticon 2001

In Opticon speech, Milton Chang is long on advice for the post-bubble world -- but the crowd is short on laughs

In a grim market, Cogent says it is close to closing a $200 million funding round

Opticon's full of Ethernet talk. But IEEE specs are delayed and deployments unannounced. Where's the beef?

Investing in optical startups continues to drop as corporate funding and vendor financing dries up

International chip maker unveils a 40-gig framer and mapper chip, the result of $250 million purchase of Catamaran

Startup Ocular has plans to take on Tellabs and other digital crossconnect leaders with a higher-density device

Optical Oracle survey says turnaround won't happen for three to four quarters, but highlights high-growth areas

Clear Communications has upped the ante in its aim to rule the optical net management space

Analyst report says Redback will make an announcement within two weeks

Just about everyone and their dog has reacted negatively to Solectron's news of a $2.7 billion acquisition

Nortel shores up its cash position with a $1.5 billion debt offering

IP Semiconductors is about to announce chips that could set new performance levels for OC48 packet processing

Optisphere says it hasn't been hit by cost cuts yet, though parent company Siemens hasn't finished swinging its axe

Looking for a fat bonus and a new Beamer? Might want to just think about keeping your job, first

It's been a long, ugly six months in the market. Time to start from scratch -- with a new list of Top Ten Optical Stocks

SG Cowen has some optimistic predictions about the future of telecom spending

Cisco's market-share comments bring its rivalry with Juniper back to center stage

Startup builds an OC768 (40 Gbit/s) link for hooking together telecom equipment. Is it ahead of its time?

Startup previously involved in gas-detection systems may be developing VCSEL technology for optical networks

Alcatel halts work on products it acquired through Packet Engines, looks to buy an Ethernet company

Though it met Wall Street's expectations, Cisco was cautious with financial guidance and growth prospects

Euro-duo bids to market an optical box to take on ONI Systems and Ciena in the booming metropolitan DWDM market

Ties to Corvis CEO David Huber haven't stopped the component startup from becoming Ciena's supplier

Components startup led by former Chromatis CEO Bob Barron draws funding from chip foundry

VCs Highland Partners and JVP pony up $12 million to fund startup for 10-Gbit/s and 40-Gbit/s transponders

Cabletron ceases to exist, as it morphs into Enterasys after completing the spinoff of Riverstone

Earnings season hasn't been exactly peppy. The market looks for optimism in Cisco's announcement tomorrow

The grim reaping continues, with job cuts in the optical industry topping 130,000. Is an end anywhere in sight?

Venture capital firm Morgenthaler raises new $850M fund, expects to dedicate at least 35% to optical

Adapt! — Scott Clavenna

Siemens is scaling back -- and the IPO of Optisphere, it's DWDM equipment subsidiary, is on ice. What next?

Silicon Valley subsystems player names former Tyco executive as CEO, says it plans to build 40-Gbit/s modules

Metropolitan DWDM company gets a $32 million cash infusion from institutional investors

Stratos Lightwave is only the latest in a slew of companies hit by allegations of IPO schemes

Redback's senior VP of operations Kevin Q. Smith has resigned

Six Degrees of Milton Chang – Paul Kapustka

Another player in the 1550 nanometer tunable VCSEL market has emerged – Applied Optoelectronics

Strong demand for Lucent's convertible stock has boosted its stock price and raised hopes for a comeback

Chris Davis leaves after 14 months at ONI, to help in turnaround of struggling carrier

Worldwide DWDM and Sonet/SDH equipment revenues won't begin recovery until 2003

Xebeo, a service-aware switch startup, signs a technology agreement with IBM

The optical networking industry is at an all-time low, but 19% of Light Readers are higher than kites, survey shows

With two of its companies sold and three out of business, Kleiner Perkins winds down its optical keiretsu

A poll on Byte and Switch reveals that 51% of repondents have 'no plans' to use wide-area nets for storage traffic

The Thailand-based startup is raking in big bucks doing contract manufacturing of optical components