The $900M merger of Ciena and ONI Systems will ensure optical success, the CEOs say. Can they pull it off?

The FCC's proposed rule changes could allow incumbents to push ISPs off their networks

International FiberCom's financial woes touch Velocita and Metro-Optix

The elusive FDM company continues to give out mixed messages. Where's it all going?

A handful of companies aim to bring optical component manufacturing out of the 1970s

New report sees Cisco regaining ground lost to Juniper in the core router market; Juniper shares plummet

The company appoints an M&A expert to its board. Could it be shopping for a buyer?

Cisco and Juniper both recorded double-digit revenue reductions between the third and fourth quarters of 2001

Auctions of vast amounts of manufacturing gear point to Nortel having halted work on AWGs and related devices

A newly discovered security hole in SNMP may affect the bulk of networking gear on the planet

Williams Communications forecasts 20 percent revenue growth for Q1 2002, but analysts say it may not be enough

Carrier's CEO says its IRU swaps were done properly. Is Crowe painting a target on himself?

Centerpoint Broadband drops big names and a hazy roadmap in its search for a large funding round

IRUs may be just the start. At Global Crossing, the questions about insider sales and corporate debt will linger

Sycamore continues the painful process of aligning its business to larger carrier customers

Optical Etherent startup scores a whopping $75 million in its third round of funding

Claims that its modulator driver occupies 75 percent less board space than competing products

CEO says profitability will return by yearend but has a tough time explaining why

Peter Evans, a former Nortel man, jumps on board in a mission to take the company to the next level

Startup Shelf Life – Doug Green

Nortel's CFO apparently shifted some minor investments outside the permitted window. Now he's gone

Analysts say AT&T's deals with Ciena and Cisco are old news, but it's enough to show a glimmer of optimism

Cinta Networks shuts its doors due to lack of funding

Qwest, an existing ONI customer, looks to be deploying ONI gear in its regulated network

Fiber swap deals between Qwest and Global Crossing may be at issue in SEC subpœna

WatchGuard $48M deal to buy RapidStream may signal the start of consolidation in the security market

Execs say they feel the rocks below. But how long they'll stay submerged is an open question

Cisco's deferred revenue situation has caused investors and analysts to turn tail

The company's stock tumbles on news of the cancellation of Qwest's purchase order

Inquiries into the Global Crossing bankruptcy are accelerating: Expect more

ONI touts a secret RBOC account as both revenues and losses increase in its Q4 earnings

Tellabs is changing its product strategy by reselling a product from White Rock Networks

Will residential fiber-optic rollouts ever materialize? UPDATED 2/8 1PM

WorldCom calls bankruptcy rumors 'nonsense' on quarterly conference call; profits fall short of estimates

Cisco beats analyst expectations for the quarter, but profits fall year-to-year and revenue growth is flat

Steven G. Akers, cofounder of Spring Tide Networks, is leaving his post as CTO of Lucent's INS group UPDATED 2/7 10AM

Salira is laying the ground work for the announcement of its Ethernet-based PON product

Multiplex confirms that it's being investigated by the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey

Cisco shares tick up prior to earnings, after an executive issues memo on quarterly results

Serial entrepreneur Wu-Fu Chen blames nothing but the economy for OptiMight's demise and Cinta's struggles

Finisar snaps up nearly bankrupt AIFOtec, giving it laser arrays for cheap UPDATED 2/6 12:00 PM

Monet Mobile Networks launched first U.S. 3G service on October 24th, 2001.

Another victim of an ailing telecom market, Ciena cuts jobs and lowers outlook for Q1

Its latest core router, code-named 'Gibson,' is being tested by four major carriers, Light Reading has learned

Analysts expecting a new product announcement are disappointed by today's ho-hum news release

Enterasys discloses SEC investigation and delays earnings report; Riverstone distances itself

Says it's shipping its switch, DWDM, and GMPLS software package that automates optical transport networks

Equipment and carrier stocks melt down as the earnings season paints a grim picture of the carrier market

Williams may be in default under its credit agreement. Will it be the next carrier to go Chapter 11?

Passive optical networking player adds wide-area Ethernet capabilities to its kit. Why?

Sources say the long-haul optical startup is shutting its doors after failing to reach an agreement on financing

Cutting the Cord — Scott Clavenna

'Problems' with JDSU's EDFAs confirmed by another system maker; but JDSU says it's old news

The startup founded in 1999 put all its eggs in the Nortel basket and got burned

Street reacts to news of a pro forma profit skeptically; investors continue to await new contracts UPDATED 2/1/02 2:55 PM