It's playing catch up with Corvis and Lucent

Startup borrows $12 million rather than give away equity at the wrong moment

Acquisition would deliver revenues and big customer accounts -- and the price might be right

Falling stock prices have landed Agilent, JDSU, and Nortel in S&P's value index

Lack of funding causes another Cisco-Powered Network to go bankrupt

Bonuses? What bonuses?

Sources say KP will cannibalize BroadBand Office to build a new service provider, code-named Domino

Component vendor says unnamed buyer could account for 10 percent of next year's revenue. Is it Nortel?

Investment bank has applied for SEC approval for a fund covering 21 optical stocks

The Light Reading Index moved up 6.7 percent today to 697.00

The Service-Aware Switch -- Scott Clavenna

The optical switch startup replaces Cyras as No. 6 in Light Reading's Top 10 Private Companies

Juniper's gobbling market share as fast as Cisco can lose it, says report

The beleaguered company tries to straighten out the books by cutting costs, jobs, forecasts, and restating results

In its $1.7B bid to buy Cyras, Ciena got rid of a vesting acceleration clause for top execs. Bah humbug!

Cisco isn't running a charity for cash-strapped carriers -- even though it looks like it

The Light Reading Index closes down a smidge. More bad news for Lucent, but Qwest rallies

Light Reading Index continues its tumble

After his downgrade batters Cisco's share price, Michael Ching says the optical business is not the problem

Interoperability trials have breathed new life into Sycamore's standards efforts

Former Baby Bell's weak projections and flat spending plan renew concerns about shrinking capital spending

Deal gives Ciena the equivalent of Cisco's Cerent, but it will dilute earnings [UPDATED 11AM ET]

An alarmist financial report kicks off a panic among Extreme shareholders, who knock the stock down 24 percent

What were Lucent execs doing with all those shares?

Xelerated Packet Devices promises to speed switch/router manufacture

Metro optical networking player lands a $60M funding round, with six leading investment banks participating

California institute nets more than $200 million in funding to build high-bandwidth optical and wireless network

Components competitors may enter a bidding war for JDSU's Zurich laser facility, if the DOJ forces it to be sold

Alcatel may not be investing in Ironbridge anymore, calling future prospects into question

A slowdown in the communications chip market is almost certain. But it may help correct inventory issues

Lucent's stock price has Wall Street talking -- but not many people see the sense in a Lucent buyout

Sycamore extends gigabit Ethernet support across its product portfolio

Rumor du jour: Ciena may buy Cyras, with a price tag of $2 billion being discussed

Sweden's Optillion isn't cheating: Its transceivers will carry 10 gigabit Ethernet over a single channel

ATM technology fizzles in the access space

Stock stumbles following marathon Monday conference call

Zhone will buy its fifth company as it strives to be a one-stop shop for last-mile networking gear

Juniper keeps the heat on Cisco, spending $260M on Micro Magic, an ASIC tools company

This optical packet node vendor is among the first to announce a product and a trial customer

Lucent's investors finally have something to look forward to: A $100M IPO for its microelectronics division

Radlan to sell a "build your own router" kit in conjunction with leading communications chip companies

Components vendor IPG Photonics is betting its future on the success of emerging technologies like optical wireless

Former Cambrian colleagues form Akara and bag $17 million in first round funding

The DOJ will most likely have a decision on the optical megamerger in the next couple of weeks

Optical component integration and automated manufacturing have just begun, say conference panelists

Rhythms has put off payments to some investors, raising more questions about vendor financing

According to its statistical spin, Nortel's the WDM market leader -- but for how long?

Once Lucent spins off its Agere IPO, what's left? A big fat bargain, some analysts say

Alcatel settles its lawsuit with IPOptical by taking a piece of the action

Simulant says its software can eliminate time-wasting trial and error when designing waveguides

Employee theft case heightens awareness of Calix -- which lists Cisco's Carl Russo on its board

KPNQwest gave carriers the mockingbird in its request for bids for a... wishbone network?

Xilinx, Altera, and others go public with guidance revisions on cancelled orders. But investors saw it coming

TyCom says it's built the first 32-wavelength subsea cable system. So does Alcatel

Contract with Star 21 highlights strategy to support European startup carriers

Scottish startup gets $18M to develop hybrid optical components

Goldman Sachs is the lead investor in its $52M second round; can an IPO be far off?

Management and provisioning software activity picks up for optical networks; but don't hold your breath

They're setting up development centers that tap into a vast pool of talented, low-cost engineers