TeraConnect is the latest of a string of military R&D spinoffs UPDATED 12/1/00 1:00 PM

Carrier says it's first to deploy a global optical mesh; but questions abound

Slowdown? What slowdown, says Nortel CEO John Roth

IBM may have given up on superconductors, but Hypres reckons they could give electronics a new lease on life

IPO Nostalgia -- R. Scott Raynovich

Our anonymous saga about Lucent's acquisition of Chromatis and Ignitus drew surprising testimonials

West Bay says it can sidestep the race to cram more transistors on a chip

ADC announced 63 percent growth in sales and the CEO blasted Wall Street doubters

Sycamore feels the pinch of big-bucks competitors and starts offering vendor financing

As Riverstone waits for the IPO market to recover, a partnership with a big telecom provider could help boost enthusiasm

RHK says the DWDM components market will grow 130% this year and reach $24B by 2004

Hiring the right staff seen as a way of ensuring survival

Former Packet Engines and Xylan execs leave Alcatel to go out on their own again

With $875 million burning a hole in its pocket, Sevin Rosen Funds looks to soup up its optical investment team

The market recovers after initial fears about AT&T's announcement that its cable spending will slow

Corvis's secretive relationship with customers -- who also happen to be shareholders -- draws scrutiny

But the UK network operator will bounce back, says analyst

A bunch of new ventures have been spun out of the country's research centers

It may have cracked a big problem in optical integrated circuits

Integrated Micromachines is planning to make a splash next Monday, five years after it was founded

Light Reading's gotten a hot tip on the tangled tale of Lucent's Ignitus and Chromatis acquisitions

AFOP's a flop, but that doesn't seem to be stopping other optical startups from taking their chances on Wall Street

When Nortel's shares were taking a battering, its CEO put his money where his mouth was

New rules will make it tougher for vendors to count their chickens before they're hatched

Polatis is developing a highly scaleable, low loss, all-optical switch - but won't say what it's based on

Carrier sales of data networking gear will continue to show double-digit growth next year, firm says

Aided by influential backers, Rembrandt Ventures is set to form an optical incubator and fund its progeny

Sticks to 2001 projections, allays fears over capex and inventories

Thought the worst was over for LU? Guess again

Morgan Stanley cuts price estimates on Cisco and downgrades its competitors, Redback and Juniper

Cisco and Ciena show positive growth in spite of wilting market. Everyone else is in reverse

Lucent troubles deliver recruiting boon for startups in New Jersey

4 milliwatt, 100 channel tunable laser goes head-to-head with ADC

Ex VP of marketing at Foundry alleges CEO Bobby Johnson harassed her while she was pregnant

Optical switching company's stock is down 40 percent and volume has doubled in two days -- but no one's talking

After a few fits and starts, Tachion is close to raising $75M in new funding

Having registered for IPO, some optical vendors don't seem eager to rush into a bearish market

Company makes at run at Cisco in next-generation Sonet products by adding IP services

Wireless carrier Vodafone is Sycamore's new customer, pledging a $40M multiyear contract

Interim Geyser CEO, Joe Savage, has moved onto a new company, and Wu Fu Chen is still in charge

CEO Surya Panditi says support for OC192 router interfaces will be available by the end of the year

Routing visionary returns to his alma mater to head up its service provider strategy -- and do battle with Juniper

Backing startup Cinta is the latest in a long line of well-considered optical investments

ICG files for bankruptcy protection, raising more questions about equipment financing deals

Organic polymer could prove to be a breakthrough material for optical components - UPDATED 11/16/00

OC192 is coming, and inventory problems will be resolved, says Cisco's CTO

Reports a solid quarter and beats expectations again

CFO says the sale of $5 million in receivables to a bank led to false rumors about restated earnings

Bean counters are taking another crack at putting the squeeze on stock options

A mutual interest in Pirelli appears to be at the heart of the agreement

At the UBS Warburg Telecom conference, James Crowe vents on George Gilder

Photonex, led by MIT scientists and a bevy of Wellfleet alumni, aims to combine IP services with the optical core

American Broadband -- By Scott Clavenna

Atoga's software-savvy edge switch is expected to ship next year

Tony Werner becomes president and CEO of Aurora Networks

The Interoute deal fails to excite, but there may be more in store

Cyras has lost another top exec. Is the heat dissipating at the hot startup?

Components manufacturer targets the customer premises market

Ultra Fast Optical Systems is targeting 640 Gbit/s per wavelength

The former Redback CEO will be assuming the CEO post at long-distance amplifier maker Onetta, say sources

UPDATED: Shares of components maker Luminent price below expected range, then trade barely above $12

With another $100 million in its account and a product set to ship, can an IPO be far behind?

A metro optical startup with top talent, Jasmine plans to compete with Cisco, Cyras, Redback, et al.

It's increased 383% in a year, according to TeleGeography

Our online poll also indicates 73 percent of respondents are considering quitting

Company responds to investors after comments from Cisco caused its share price to plunge

Cisco at a Crossroads -- R. Scott Raynovich

Something optical, metropolitan, and cheap, s'il vous plait. Astral Point, perhaps?

The bankers set its price range for $13-$15 a share. The company waits to see if the market holds up

Its revenues are rocketing but its sexier products aren't selling

Its partnership with Kymata could get it off to a flying start

With more funding, and product trials coming soon, is Cinta, with its new CEO, gearing up to go public?

Its training and certification scheme is designed to entrench its market leadership.

UPDATED: The Wavelength Router and the ON15200 get their first customer -- but they aren't expected to ship until 2001

SSM Ventures spawns Verity Ventures, a $100 million+ fund dedicated to investing in Texas-based startups

Vinod Khosla is among those betting $25 million on automated interface card production

Cisco's quarter was just a little bit better than predicted -- as usual -- so what are investors fretting about?

Telica announces its first customer and is generating revenue. Might an IPO be around the corner?

Lucent's recent attempts to revamp bonus and options plans may be too little too late, say former employees

Calls into question competitors' ways of measuring switch capacity

Chip company adds to its networking processor portfolio by spending nearly $2 billion on SiByte

New developments could usher in reconfigurable optical networks

Large companies get more H-1B visas, but new law also makes it easy for startups to steal talent

UPDATED: Optical Communications Products, a Furukawa spinoff, trades as high as $20 in stock market debut

CEO Scott Kriens questions the rush to metro and hasn't decided how and when his company will go there

Riddling semiconductors with microscopic holes may be the key to making optical integrated circuits

Nortel sees more analyst backlash. It may be Nortel's sales structure that's causing the problems [UPDATED 11.3.00]

Despite telecom turbulence, small VCs such as Blueprint don't see the deals slowing down

Alcatel's new routers compete head to head with the same gear that its reselling from Juniper

Northpoint CEO blames analysts for her company's slide in shareprice

CodeStream is about to get $50 million to develop a low-cost alternative

Ballooning BGP routing tables could bring the Net to its knees within a couple of years