Bankruptcy looms, and MFN is looking to sell the assets of PAIX.net subsidiary. Who's the buyer?

More carriers are in dire straits than meets the eye, says the Optical Oracle

Scottish startup wins investment to develop modulator technology with ultra-low operating voltage

Ciena says its new system can add and drop wavelengths remotely

Everyone's talking about ARPU, but is anybody doing anything about it? A news roundup from the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Show

Équipe's new funding includes a small stake and strategic partnership with Ciena. Can this help it win big?

Agilent, Agere, and Vitesse are among the companies with important transponder-related news at OFC

Qwest has restructured its debt and Wall Street's relieved -- for now

Startup Polaris Networks received $52 million; aims for the metro core

Chip maker announces its first optical products at OFC, the result of its acquisition of Versatile

Cisco announces two new customers and trots out its optical gear at OFC

No one could accuse Sputnik of thinking small: The company wants to create an enterprise-standard WLAN software platform and a US network that subscribers can roam on

Plans to integrate DWDM with optical switching, just like Corvis, and roll out 40 Gig in early 2003. UPDATED March 16

Private investors swoop in to save the day, but shareholders will still take it on the nose

First there were two, now there is only one company developing echelle grating technology for multiplexers

Sequoia VC partner is sticking in the top spot at Mahi, which is rumored to be working a deal with Qwest

Level 3 has some of the shakiest finances in the carrier space but has so far avoided the spotlight. What gives?

A new analyst report says Furukawa's losing money on the OFS group it bought from Lucent last fall

The Shorter Roads to 40G – Scott Clavenna

There are 8 million stories in this wireless city; these are just a few of them

Is this a sign of a spring thaw in the 40-Gbit/s winter? We'll learn more next week at OFC

Nortel, ADVA, Controlware, Lumentis, Pandatel unveil smaller boxes and new modules at CeBIT

With a new take on 2D MEMS, this startup enters the swelling ranks of the multidimensional MEMS wars

With two weeks left in the quarter, Juniper is coming down to the wire UPDATED 3/14 4PM

Xalted Networks has cut about 60 percent of its staff in the past six months

Launches mobile systems management software derived from Callisto’s Orbiter

Nortel vice chairman John Roth got rewarded for walking away from the collapse

Plans to produce Sonet transceivers for a price that's comparable with enterprise optics

Alcatel signs a four-year, $400M equipment deal with Canadian incumbment

Agilent gets the prize for having the least boring new product at Germany's giant trade show

Company says it's got a way to make a 3D optical crossconnect that won't fall prey to the Xros syndrome

It's switched strategy on its traffic manager chip in an effort to avoid the same fate as Acorn Networks

Redmond .nets another big mobile fish

Juniper? Cisco? Axerra? Will the real Ericsson router partner please stand up?

A whole laundry list of questions from the SEC gives the telecom market that sinking feeling

Revenue and profit warning are taken as a grand sign that nobody is out of the telecom mess just yet

Finally! Cisco discloses it owns 44% of Andiamo and may even buy it for $2.5 billion in stock

Lead investor pulls out. Executives get angry. Words are exchanged. Employees take furlough

Lucent and Nortel promote 40 Gig and all-optical switches, Ciena and Fujitsu don't, in RFI exercise

Illustrates large potential market for optical networking gear among wireless operators

Components startup comes out of stealth mode with $41 million in funding for indium phosphide-based modulators

CEO Bobby Johnson is out of the hotseat as the company settles harassment suit with former marketing VP

Zhone slims down by cutting 120 jobs

The SEC's come knocking on Qwest's door, asking about those pesky accounting issues that refuse to go away

Former Procket VP Bob Howard-Anderson moves to broadband access startup Occam as VP of operations

Regulatory authorities are being slug-a-beds when it comes to approving the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard for commercial services

Says its new variable optical attentuator will cost three or four times less than existing products

Qwest's bond issue is a major step in the right direction, analysts say. But more is needed

Is passive optical networking doomed? Perhaps the CeBIT show will shed some light

Is a hush-hush reseller agreement the first step toward something bigger between Alcatel and Riverstone?

The few remaining executives look to raise cash, but sources say the company has imploded

New tools and subscription system should get the network design software firm back on track UPDATED

Its widely tunable laser with integrated modulator, on show at OFC, is ready to ship commercially

Follows Japan’s lead, underscoring its potential for encouraging applications development and boosting revenues

Will Cisco come in to rescue the ailing VOIP gateway provider?

The NYSE has halted trading on Williams Communications' stock as it plunges towards single-digit cents

Marconi is shuffling its deck of access networking products. Here's news on what goes, what stays

In-Stat/MDR Report predicts that the optical IC market will grow to $1.8 billion by 2006

Arguments are breaking out over a European Commission report that urges rapid rollout of IP version 6

Arguments are breaking out over a European Commission report that urges rapid rollout of IP version 6

It's ditched AWGs in favor of thin-film filters, which it will be displaying at OFC

Set to unveil its first product at OFC, AraLight is only too glad to come up short on optical modules

At OFC, Optillion hopes it can prove that not all Xenpak transceivers are created equal

A lot of carriers and content providers could end up having to junk their original WAP developments when WAP 2 handsets hit the streets

The component maker has unveiled a dynamically-reconfigurable Wavelength Blocker. It's tiny now, but just wait....

The last of the Osicom managers is shown the door as Sorrento's board takes over

Tight-lipped Siros announces that it has received $17 million funding, but won't say why

Nortel confirms it won't be releasing the switch technology it bought with Xros

Intel enters the passive components business, will show samples at OFC

Many of them won't be able to recoup the billions they've spent on 3G licenses - and could end up getting bought or going bust

Clarendon Photonics uses CMOS production lines to make optical components, which it will demo at OFC

Out with the old, in with the new, as CoSine gives CEO Hamilton the boot -- and promotes his replacement from within

Metro-Optix ekes more sales out of its consolidating customer base

Ceyba announces product details and says it has what it takes to overcome the current market challenges

Startup scores $20M to develop integrated components, including the integrated equivalent of an EDFA

Notes From Underground – Stephen Saunders

Unlicensed wireless access, while slower and more complicated than fiber, nonetheless provides easier access. And it may actually spur fiber buildout

At OFC startup will show optical devices and high-speed electronics integrated on one InP chip

Components vendors are developing a new generation of small, configurable switches for optical networks UPDATED 3/4 1:30 PM

Riverstone says insider selling that started a month before an earnings warning was part of a preset program

Packet Relay Radio to the Rescue? – David S. Isenberg

Lightscape wins China contract and prepares to tout product advances at OFC

A head of steam is building behind unconventional ‘wireless mesh’ methods of delivering broadband Internet access