ATM technology fizzles in the access space

A New Look -- R. Scott Raynovich

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

Only the most promising R&D projects get government grants. Here are the hottest optical ones

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

Ciena delivers a solid Q4 and predicts it will benefit from a shift away from legacy equipment

A new division's in the works, set to launch tunable lasers. Can it succeed under the Marconi umbrella?

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

New Gilder Report sends New Focus shares soaring

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

The role of investment banks in its $85 million third round, announced today, indicates that an IPO is in the offing

Big pay-off is in supporting thousands of connections in access nets, not in boosting overall bandwidth

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

RHK says Asia-Pacific carriers will quadruple spending on optical networks by 2004

Kevin Kalkhoven, former JDS Uniphase CEO, joins investors in backbone system startup

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?

Letter From Europe -- Scott Clavenna

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

Clinches a deal with a big real estate company that turns the heat up on the competition