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In a land whipped by layoffs, White Rock Networks moves to bigger offices and adds staff

Top execs feasted on rich compensation in 2001, even as layoffs spread famine throughout the industry

Sprint's decision to scrap the project will cost it billions of dollars and thousands of jobs

Which financial analysts, market researchers, and journalists fired widest of the mark in 2001?

Tellium gets $50M order but gives Qwest a get-out on its longer-term purchasing plans

Occam bails out Accelerated with merger deal

Layoffs and lack of customer demand dog 40-Gbit/s startup

These companies can't just blame the economy for a troubled year

Pithy, yet tasteful, remarks from the Light Reading Weekly that hit the most buttons

Light Reading's favorites from our 'Quote of the Week' feature

Light Reading's take on the 10 most important developments in the components industry this year

The Lost Year – Scott Clavenna

Wall Street rewarded Nortel for not disappointing them too much. The stock was up as much as 10%

The optical add/drop multiplexer subsystem maker shuts its doors after it couldn't find customers

UK researchers cram a lot more data down legacy fiber -- indicating potential for low-cost Ethernet deployment

AT&T broadband sale could have some upside for cable equipment suppliers

JDSU will pay $340M for IBM's optical data comm chip business. Just what is it buying, and why?

After a world tour and varied feedback, the editors of Light Reading have published a new list

Carrier spending decline takes another chunk out of the core router player's revenues in Q4

Vote on the broadband bill has been put off until March, but expect some bloody politics in the meantime

Lightscape, global player in metro networking, is still waiting to make a big splash in the North American market

Can ATM switch vendors compete with high-end routers? Alcatel, Lucent, Marconi, and others say 'yes'

Meet Mr. Ed
– by Stephen Saunders

Blaze ships 10-Gbit/s Ethernet Xenpak modules, adding to other options from Agilent and Agere

Merrill Lynch cuts estimates for Corvis following last week's spending cut announcement by Qwest

Ireland has designs on aiding startups in the optical market. Eblana Photonics is one of the first

After snagging investments from top carriers last February, Atrica is about to close a $30M round, say sources

Intel's quiet purchase of a small components startup might mean a big future for OCDMA technology

The Harley-riding career Nortel man takes CTO post. Can he return Nortel to optical leadership? HDX is the first test.

It's buying Marconi's 500-staff components division for stock worth a mere $29 million

Palm takes aim at enterprises, Pocket PC takes aim at entertainment, and a new study predicts that Pocket PC will have market share by 2005.

Qwest reduces its capex spending by more than a billion dollars. Which vendors are most likely to feel the pain?

A puzzling 'settlement' seems typical of the uphill battle being waged by cranky IP services switch vendors

Cash flows to stealthy startup from investors including Accel Partners, Juniper Networks, and Kleiner-Perkins

Who's got the widest wideband modulator? Qusion says it's got something special, but Agility scoffs

Internet Photonics is out of stealth mode, raising cash and about to beta test its first product

With prices dropping and security needs rising, experts see a rising tide for high-speed security hardware

In spite of solid sales this year, it's forecasting a 30 to 40 percent fall in revenues in the next quarter

Standards bodies work together to develop solutions for metro rings

Lo and behold, a tech IPO! Is the coast clear?

Intel's making a big noise about eclipsing Sun's dominance in the carrier market. Is it really a threat?

Lucent contract activity points to a renewed fight for incumbent carrier deals

Optical components company lands $16M third round in pursuit of new optical techniques such as 'cold writing'

Most optical switch manufacturers are in a pickle, according to the latest report from the Optical Oracle

Large-scale holiday bashes aren't on tap this year, according to a recent poll and interviews with some companies

This just in: Photos from last week's Lightspeed conference

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