The company's grooming chip for telecom gear packs together timing, multiple low-speed interfaces

Wireless optics provider cuts expansion plans from six to four cities, lays of 20% of its staff

Wave or optical Ethernet? Telseon's latest highlights a key issue in metro services UPDATED 9.28.01 3PM ET

Employee stock options are underwater like never before. So what are companies doing about it?

The startup needs some cash to continue development of its ultra low-loss switch

A last-word, realistic view of the U.S. move to next generation networks.

Exodus's creditors mull over their options in the wake of the Web hoster's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing

The gloom returns as profit warnings and economic concerns weigh on stocks

Edge services switch maker is in carrier trials and says it now has enough cash to make it to shipment

The stock heads closer to pennies

In the wake of recent terrorist attacks, optical and storage companies make changes to travel policies

Soul Searching -- R. Scott Raynovich

While vendors squabble over the Resilient Packet Ring standard, its marketability is dwindling fast

Company unveils transceiver that complies with a multi-source agreement, and sports a cool Italian laser

Many on the Street don't believe Cisco is going to make its numbers for its first quarter of fiscal 2002

Tellium will likely hit its targets this quarter, but many analysts believe a bumpy road looms ahead

Ethernet rules in the metro networking market. Unfortunately, much of the $3 billion in VC capital will disappear

CIBC boosts AT&T, Qwest, Sprint, and Worldcom as the Nasdaq and LR Index rally

With thousands out of work, CEOs at leading companies are getting sizeable salaries -- and severance packages

Metera Networks will close on Friday, leaving only one Iris Group company operational

New sales forecast shows that JDSU has been busy trimming its business -- and believes things are stabilizing

Geyser closed its doors yesterday; Cinta cut jobs on Wednesday. Is Optimight next?

ONI takes down earnings projections for the next two quarters and hints at layoffs, stock loses half its value

Mark A. Floyd, the ex-CEO of Efficient Networks, helms troubled Siemens ICN

Danish startup plans to develop integrated optical components that employ exotic optical effects in thin gold films

Ciena and Tellabs invest in tunable laser startup, bringing total funding to $186 million

Riverstone makes its quarterly revenue projection, and turns out a penny per share of profit

Cinta and Mahi make cutbacks to conserve cash-- UPDATED 9/21/01

Lucent says it's canceled the MSC 25000, a high-end ATM switch, in order to regroup

Shock horror! They're often wrong, and they're often biased, according to a Light Reading survey

Inventory charge indicates that things may be slower than previously thought in the DWDM components business

The startup says it can slash metro DWDM networks costs - but gaining traction is going to be tricky

Ciena's stock takes a hit -- weighing on the LR Index -- after Morgan Stanley lowers forecasts

Optical Oracle says Ethernet is the brightest spot on the optical horizon, especially for young guns

Another Iris Group startup faces closure if it can't find a buyer soon

Nortel hasn't hit bottom, sources say. There may be more layoffs on the way

Lynx Photonics says there's nothing to stick or wear out in its solid state optical add-drop mux (OADM)

Alcatel has settled lawsuits with Bernard Daines, the ex-CEO of Packet Engines, which Alcatel acquired

Optical and networking stocks sink 5-15% as Wall Street tries to get back to business

Ottawa startup secures funding to bring its optical add/drop switch to market

Lucent's closing its facility in RTP, but a gang of engineers wants to stay together there

Cisco will buy back $3 billion worth of its shares in the next two years

Startup says it's conquered some of the challenges of next generation transmission systems

Cisco introduces new members of the 7000 router family, putting more muscle at the edge

Cisco, Corning, and Juniper are just a few of the technology companies contributing to relief funds

SEC, Nasdaq and NYSE regroup for next week

September 11th 2001

Marconi Optical Components will showcase the company as well as its products at the upcoming ECOC show

The working group for RPR is as divided as ever

Carriers and ISPs hang tough in the wake of terrorist attacks in NYC and Washington

Telecom workers return to their jobs, though their minds are elsewhere UPDATED: 09/13, 3 P.M.

As show reopens, Tuesday's events leave empty feeling at Atlanta event

Strengthens LightPointe's claim that free space optics can be an alternative to fiber in some circumstances

MRVC CFO Edmund Glazer and Akamai founder Daniel Lewin killed in World Trade Center plane crashes

Kestrel has announced a contract -- but nobody knows what it's worth

Locating people and securing communications are the first items of business after today's terrors

Attendees in shock; show slated to reopen Wednesday

Economic and emotional damage looms following the terrorist attack on New York City UPDATED 4:20PM ET

Agilent says it's first to market with testers for the "digital wrapper" standard, G.709

It's unveiled the technology behind its recent decision to focus its efforts on its optical switch

Innovance is the latest Ottawa startup to score a hefty loan. Why's it keeping mum?

Mindspeed throws its weight behind Cisco's version of RPR, an emerging standard Ethernet in telecom networks

Network Elements' module integrates protocol processing so systems vendors don't have to

"It's about the economy," says CEO Joseph Nacchio, adjusting for lower growth; meanwhile, the stock rises

Avici cuts revenue projections by more than half and cuts 14 percent of its workforce

Juniper CEO gives glimmer of hope to packed house at a technology investment conference in New York

The startup is about to announce a trio of chips that will compete with rival Zettacom's product

Veeco's ecstatic over its planned $135 million purchase of Applied Epi, which makes optical integration technology

Forecasting Follies – Scott Clavenna

A week after a $40 million funding round, the company lays off workers and cancels a product

Materials discovery could change economics of making high-speed electronic circuits and integrated optics

Report from a parallel universe? Multiservice provisioning platforms are selling well, IDC says

Firms like Aberdeen, Infonetics, and RHK continue to revise their takes on the optical market UPDATED 9/5 6PM

The Light Reading work poll suggests stock options no longer have the allure they once had

While others set aside their strategies for advanced all-optical switching, MEMX presses on UPDATED 9/5 3PM

The carrier has scored another $50 million to keep its financing hopes alive UPDATED 9/5 12:30PM

Vitesse unveils an improved version of its IQ2000 network processor chip and outlines plans for higher speeds

Its CEO and chairman get the boot: Another 2,000 layoffs are in the pipeline UPDATED 9/4 12:30 PM

More than half of the 370 entries in Light Reading's job database were posted in August

It's been a big success, but when will Cisco see a return on its $6.9 billion investment?

As layoffs continue, they're taking whatever work they can get, so long as it's local