Optical switching module startup puts its 3D MEMS developments on the back burner and sheds 25% of its staff

Shuts Santa Rosa office, lays off 45 staff, focuses on making a simpler switch

The latest optical transport figures from RHK show secretive Huawei leading a burgeoning optical market

Components startup cuts 60 percent of its workforce, as it tries to sit out a funding famine

The ex-partners are pounding each other over the failure of their planned joint blitz of the MSO market

Bankruptcy court gives it until Oct 19 to find a buyer or find some new investors. The former appears more likely

Mike O'Dell Vents – Peter Heywood

A surprise reduction in fiber orders is forcing it to lay off another 1,000. Analysts see no immediate uptick

Former Cisco executive says he's focused on getting Redback back in black

Stock takes a tumble after Merrill Lynch analyst cuts earnings forecast

10-Gig Ethernet component plays are "especially interesting" to Intel's investing arm

Can Cogent profit from the demise of yet another BLEC? Or is it risking all in a bid for customer access?

An equipment trial announced last fall ends in a 'no sale' for Sycamore

German startup AIFOtec claims to have a nifty way of making small optical switches based on moving fibers

Declares pro forma loss, despite increased sales, while analysts go sour on its stock

KMI Corp. says the market will reach $6.3 billion by 2006, when all-optical crossconnects will overtake OEO gear

One of the Iris Group companies resets its development efforts and fires most of its staff

Lucent's consigned its Chromatis MSX products to the dustbin of history. About time, you say?

Partners with CheckPoint to offer networked firewall and security as its first applications

Cisco's "drink responsibly" signs are observed and mocked by weary workers

Slowdown? Intelligent optical networking gear sold like hotcakes from 2000 through the first half of 2001

Zhone buys bits of Nortel's Universal Edge and AccessNode product lines and will support its installed base

Arrayed wave guides, interleavers, and some types of tunable components are where the action is

Despite new customers and increased revenue, Unisphere is forced to reduce its IPO price target again

Kevin DeNuccio has quit Cisco and is interviewing for Redback's CEO job UPDATED: 8/24 5:00 EST

This small stealthy semiconductor startup plans to take its academic research into the commercial world

Solar cell technology has given scientists new ideas about how to make efficient silicon light-emitting devices

Russo: down. Kennedy: out. Ullal: up. And Mazzola is promoted over Volpi

Cognigine says its architecture will blow the socks off the competition -- sooner or later

Mahi has teamed with PMC-Sierra to deliver the mother of all metro God boxes. Is a BellSouth contract in the works?

A large proportion of Light Readers think MPLS has gotten hijacked by the folk that got ATM in a mess

One more push and the startup will have closed a $40M Series C round

The optical equipment market is in decline, but Lucent is gaining market share, according to Dell'Oro

Analysts agree that metro Ethernet is coming but argue about when, where, and how

They're loosening their purse strings, according to a Deloitte & Touche poll

4,536 jobs lost in the US at Agilent, Fujitsu, and Metro-Optix

Sycamore's revenues continue to dive; Sirocco founder heads out

Cisco took 5 percent of the core router market back from Juniper in the second quarter, says Infonetics

Sorrento sees its revenues dropping 45 percent quarter-to-quarter

Startup Paracer has gone from inception to shipments of its parallel optics modules in just eight months

CIR says the market will take off in 2003 and early entrants will reap rewards

In what amounts to a spin-in, it's acquiring Onex, a switching silicon startup founded by ex TranSwitch staff

Sigma Networks broadens its service offering, cozies up to Cisco

Morgan Stanley sees weakness in the Layer 3 market as Cisco gets ready for a pricing war

Santera nabs more than $100 million in funding, demonstrating continuing faith in God boxes

A big customer win and a technology first aren't enough to buoy Riverstone's stock on a bleak day for switch vendors

Unveils developments aimed at halving the number of chips in grooming switches while boosting performance

Announcing Unstrung Primers, the first in a series of useful overviews of the state of the wireless industry.

Startup says it can make an equivalent tunable laser for one fifth the cost UPDATED 8/20 6pm EDT

The deal with Teon is off and the company is going to shrink its technology to sell as a subsystem

Wall Street shrugs as Lucent has its debt covenants revised and looks forward to profitability in fiscal 2002

As Ciena's stock plummets, Ciena's leader justifies future growth in the optical market

Long-haul's down, metro hopes are high -- and the Cyras crew has exited stage left

In the shrinking market, VCs get creative, steering startups toward enterprise customers or unsolved problems

Former FCC chairman points to fundamentals that indicate the telecom industry will rebound

Internet guru Larry Roberts says Internet traffic is doubling every six months. Real numbers or just marketing hype?

Resilient Packet Ring technology provokes a rush of protests, questions, and comments at Opticon 2001

In Opticon speech, Milton Chang is long on advice for the post-bubble world -- but the crowd is short on laughs

In a grim market, Cogent says it is close to closing a $200 million funding round

Opticon's full of Ethernet talk. But IEEE specs are delayed and deployments unannounced. Where's the beef?

Investing in optical startups continues to drop as corporate funding and vendor financing dries up

International chip maker unveils a 40-gig framer and mapper chip, the result of $250 million purchase of Catamaran

Startup Ocular has plans to take on Tellabs and other digital crossconnect leaders with a higher-density device

Optical Oracle survey says turnaround won't happen for three to four quarters, but highlights high-growth areas

Clear Communications has upped the ante in its aim to rule the optical net management space

Analyst report says Redback will make an announcement within two weeks

Just about everyone and their dog has reacted negatively to Solectron's news of a $2.7 billion acquisition

Nortel shores up its cash position with a $1.5 billion debt offering

IP Semiconductors is about to announce chips that could set new performance levels for OC48 packet processing

Optisphere says it hasn't been hit by cost cuts yet, though parent company Siemens hasn't finished swinging its axe

Looking for a fat bonus and a new Beamer? Might want to just think about keeping your job, first

It's been a long, ugly six months in the market. Time to start from scratch -- with a new list of Top Ten Optical Stocks

SG Cowen has some optimistic predictions about the future of telecom spending

Cisco's market-share comments bring its rivalry with Juniper back to center stage

Startup builds an OC768 (40 Gbit/s) link for hooking together telecom equipment. Is it ahead of its time?

Startup previously involved in gas-detection systems may be developing VCSEL technology for optical networks

Alcatel halts work on products it acquired through Packet Engines, looks to buy an Ethernet company

Though it met Wall Street's expectations, Cisco was cautious with financial guidance and growth prospects

Euro-duo bids to market an optical box to take on ONI Systems and Ciena in the booming metropolitan DWDM market

Ties to Corvis CEO David Huber haven't stopped the component startup from becoming Ciena's supplier

Components startup led by former Chromatis CEO Bob Barron draws funding from chip foundry

VCs Highland Partners and JVP pony up $12 million to fund startup for 10-Gbit/s and 40-Gbit/s transponders

Cabletron ceases to exist, as it morphs into Enterasys after completing the spinoff of Riverstone

Earnings season hasn't been exactly peppy. The market looks for optimism in Cisco's announcement tomorrow

The grim reaping continues, with job cuts in the optical industry topping 130,000. Is an end anywhere in sight?

Venture capital firm Morgenthaler raises new $850M fund, expects to dedicate at least 35% to optical

Adapt! — Scott Clavenna

Siemens is scaling back -- and the IPO of Optisphere, it's DWDM equipment subsidiary, is on ice. What next?

Silicon Valley subsystems player names former Tyco executive as CEO, says it plans to build 40-Gbit/s modules

Metropolitan DWDM company gets a $32 million cash infusion from institutional investors

Stratos Lightwave is only the latest in a slew of companies hit by allegations of IPO schemes

Redback's senior VP of operations Kevin Q. Smith has resigned

Six Degrees of Milton Chang – Paul Kapustka

Another player in the 1550 nanometer tunable VCSEL market has emerged – Applied Optoelectronics

Strong demand for Lucent's convertible stock has boosted its stock price and raised hopes for a comeback

Chris Davis leaves after 14 months at ONI, to help in turnaround of struggling carrier

Worldwide DWDM and Sonet/SDH equipment revenues won't begin recovery until 2003

Xebeo, a service-aware switch startup, signs a technology agreement with IBM

The optical networking industry is at an all-time low, but 19% of Light Readers are higher than kites, survey shows

With two of its companies sold and three out of business, Kleiner Perkins winds down its optical keiretsu

A poll on Byte and Switch reveals that 51% of repondents have 'no plans' to use wide-area nets for storage traffic

The Thailand-based startup is raking in big bucks doing contract manufacturing of optical components