Good Q3 results bring some relief to nervous investors

Kymata could turn out to be the first of many

Great quarter, but is its parent pulling strings?

David Huber is betting on a startup catching up with the competition on indium phospide integrated circuits

Optical Train Wreck? — Stephanie Cooke

Share price falls 5 percent on fears of a slowdown in carriers' capital spending

Using a new network chip technology, Netrake hopes to provide quick QOS at the network edge

Sweden's Lumentis says tunable lasers and filters will enable it to leap-frog today's technology

Others, including Dan Stanzione, former president of Bell Labs, backed a competitor while still at Lucent

Metropolitan optical player plans a single switching fabric for multiple voice and data traffic types

Startup says its solid state switch beats MEMS and bubbles on several counts

The market has spoken, and the investment banking community is listening

New Focus follows up a solid earnings report with two strategic acquisitions

Leading optical components vendor beats the street estimates by two cents, sees no sign of weakening demand

George Gilder still believes. Can you?

Sorrento previews a positive quarter, and CEO Xin Cheng talks about his new role

Nortel's Optical Halloween -- R. Scott Raynovich

Shlomo and Near Margalit took on the Kleiner Perkins machine to retain control of their company -- and won

Nortel last night reported a slip in optical growth, sending the optical market into the gutter. Was the reaction extreme?

Kent Optronics has a polarization-independent liquid crystal switch [UPDATED Oct 26 9:45 AM EST]

Former Nextel executive brought in to help Sorrento and Osicom grow to its potential

Morgan Stanley's report on capital spending sheds positve light on optical equipment.

As Lucent's share price fell, the CEO was mining Zhone Technologies for startup gold

French researchers have developed a fiber that could slash the cost of correcting for dispersion

Qwest provides some relief for the beleaguered telecom sector

The company plans to build an all-optical metro DWDM switch using its own components

Networking investment and development firm raises $125 million investment from a group led by Cisco

Optical components growth was considerable, but fiber still fuels the bulk of Corning's business

Zany zeppelin vanishes before recruitment fair; Cisco suspected in Telecom Corridor caper

Lucent's Chairman and CEO Rich McGinn is history. It may be a long road to recovery

Startup is forming Bragg gratings in liquid crystals to deliver low cost components

Energy companies like Dynegy and Enron now have optical pipelines for sale: Is Wall Street ready? [REVISED 10.23.2000]

Rumors are swirling that Cisco wants CacheFlow -- analysts think it'd be a good combination

Its deal with Antec should help each sustain a solid lead in the broadband cable access market, analysts say

Software platform aims to provide carriers a way to point and click toward profits

Location, location, and customers: the three most important things in wireless.

Optical Stocks: Panic? Schmanic! -- R. Scott Raynovich

$23 million in revenue more than doubles the estimates

Tony Li has set his startup's sights on domination of the router market. His track record speaks volumes

Company aims to put another $345 million into its coffers

Component vendor has stellar quarter and proves skeptics wrong

Players are proliferating, heralding stiff competition in an already lucrative market, says report

The Sycamore and Sirocco products are fully integrated and shipping to customers

Exodus and Cypress Semiconductor receive guru George Gilder's blessing

Is Telcordia abusing its ownership of the integration process for Osmine management software?

Shares of the network measurement firm jump 80 percent during its first trading day

Nortel is providing up to 50% of the financing for Aerie's optical network buildout: Who'll pay for the rest?

Business case for rolling out broadband to millions of homes comes into question

Rumored investment in a startup called Mintera could yield high-speed, long-haul products

Looking to boost its U.S. profile, Marconi is listed as an ADR on the Nasdaq

A $100 million deal with Time Warner Telecom is just what the IPO bankers ordered: Was equity involved?

Company shows 50 percent growth in quarterly sales. Can it keep pace with the changing market?

Communications chip startup targets Ethernet, Sonet/SDH applications

Two CLEC contracts could each be worth $100 million

Astarte acquisition yields MEMS technology and intellectual property

Startup's chips promise to delay the deployment of all-optical switches by making electrical core ones more attractive

Choosing Light -- Scott Clavenna

Service provider's policy of allowing officers to take pre-IPO stock from startups lands it in the dock

A six-pack of optical outfits could IPO over the next few weeks -- but only if Friday's market comeback continues

Docs could accelerate the commoditization of switches and routers with Sonet interfaces

Lucent Supernova -- R. Scott Raynovich

Juniper has another stellar quarter, but components worries linger

The market is changing the value of many optical deals -- and not for the better

Cisco and Corvis are listed as key customers of the company chaired by Corvis CEO David Huber

However, it's with BellSouth's Internet group, and the amount is undisclosed (UPDATED 3:00 pm ET)

VC firm changes name, tools up for optical investment with billion dollar fund

Optical networking drives growth in an $80 million quarter, and the company announces an unexpected profit

Sorrento's deal with Cox Communications shows management is serious about improving the company's plight

Another CEO switch raises questions about the carrier's strategy

What's the difference between a dotcom and a networking components company? A couple of PhDs

Why are the VCs throwing money at next-generation Ethernet-based service providers like Yipes and Cogent?

Stock plummets 30 percent as confidence slips and the credibility gap grows (UPDATED 10/11/200 10:30 am ET)

Metromedia Fiber Network is attempting to buy its way up the services foodchain

Federal agency sets out to redefine which type of competitors' boxes should be allowed at colocation facilities

The optical switch startup buys Kionix, the foundry making its arrays of microscopic mirrors

Startup focuses on network processors and management software for low-fat edge switch/router

Litton Systems and Corning will discuss fiber amplifier patent infringement out of court

Its efforts to breathe new life into the ODSI's signaling spec aren't going well

Is the party over for the dominant Sonet player?

Ex-Monterey founders lead a group of four optical networking startups that plan to share a common architecture

ATM: Over and Out? -- Stephen Saunders

The stock market knocks between 5 and 15 percent off optical company valuations

Stanford U. and Litton Systems are suing all major vendors, but the fallout may be less than feared

Cisco's Cloudy Forecasts -- Phil Harvey

MRV spawns another offspring

It's closed a $30 million round led by Motorola

Surging popularity of gigabit Ethernet and native IP will lead to bandwidth bottlenecks in the metro space

As it gets closer to reporting quarterly earnings, Juniper shares are dropping steadily: Is something wrong?

The company is said to have hired an investment bank to help consider offers

With Corvis as its main customer, analysts have a good feeling about the company's prospects

Big switches like Tellium's Aurora are drawing attention to the growing problem of power consumption

A $1 billion contract with SBC and a $180 million Brazilian deal are just what the doctor ordered

Its share price nearly doubled in the first hour of trading, but stormy waters may lie ahead

Its "multi-service optical system" aims to run IP directly over fiber, eliminating Sonet and ATM

They haven't left because Williams is in trouble, says carrier

Alcatel, Lucent, and Nortel will use the public markets to spin out the unknown value of components

Avici announces Qwest as a trial customer; but no contract amount is disclosed, and Qwest holds Avici stock

Plans an optical switch with many thousands of ports, outgunning MEMS developments

A dearth of power meters, tunable lasers, and other test devices could slow the progress of optical networking

New product category puts IP routing and wavelength switching in the same box

Cisco has struggled to keep up with shipments of its ONS 15454 optical platform, and carriers are complaining

Nortel gets $1.4 billion; Cable & Wireless builds an all-IP service infrastructure

Analysts expect first revenues from its SmartEdge products in results to be announced next week

Ships products. Announces customers. Outlines architecture