Germany's Cube Optics has come up with a passive assembly process for making tiny optical components

Swedish startup Transmode says its logical rings can cut the cost of metro DWDM nets by a factor of three

Avici is the latest equipment maker to adopt a shareholder rights plan to protect itself against unwanted takeovers

Unveils a chip that packs two gigabit Ethernet channels into a single Sonet OC48

The $250 million cash transaction may not result in immediate benefits

The FDM company moves onto its fourth CEO, while remaining mysterious about its customers and technology

Gets another $20 million to develop automated assembly equipment for component manufacturing

At Lightspeed Europe, RHK's Russell Johnson revealed who's shipping merchant switching and routing silicon chips

Scott Kriens reiterates company's focus on IP and hints at future acquisitions -- though they won't be optical

Experts at Lightspeed Europe say economic woes haven't stifled last-mile opportunity for carriers

Cisco's COMET strategy amounts to little more than market repositioning -- but it was enough to impress Wall Street

It's part of a consortium that's put $5 million into CST, a combined incubator and III-V optical chip foundry

Corvis CEO takes the stage at LightSpeed Europe to preach the benefits of all-optical networks

Will test equipment vendors pave the way to faster networks?

Joins battle with Velio and Vitesse in the market for monster crosspoint switch silicon

Vendors in the RPR working group still have two big issues to hack out, and the deadline looms. Will they make it?

A debate at Lightspeed Europe shows that even proponents worry about the protocol's ultimate success

Speakers at Lightspeed Europe urge startup investors to stay strong in the optical and storage markets

Unique-mode's pump lasers are up to 10 times more powerful than those currently used in EDFAs

Équipe Communications says carriers don't need to worry about having all-IP networks before installing MPLS

Cisco and Juniper announce IPv6 support and cite Internet mobile use in Asia as the killer app

Startup gets $16 million to make optical subcomponents with features smaller than the wavelength of light

Hot on the tail of other startups pursuing routing optimization, Akamai spinoff Sockeye turns it into a service