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