The Nasdaq plunge has left many stock option holders with unmanageable tax bills
Lucent appears to be racking up some lucrative contracts in Europe
CityNet Telecommunications, flush with cash, aims to pan telecom gold from city sewers worldwide
With fewer IPOs and mergers, venture capital is drying up, accelerating the shakeout in the startup community
Another startup, Geyser Networks, hopes to weather the optical slowdown by laying off 20 percent of its staff
Is softswitch technology a safer bet during the carrier spending slowdown?
RHK's latest report shows sales reaching $1.745 billion in 2000, with Nortel the overall leader
Quarterly numbers come in on forecast; execs say they'll stick to high-growth predictions for 2001
It hopes to go head to head with Ciena, but achieving that goal isn't going to be easy
Redback posts a quarterly loss as expected, but shows some revenue growth
The bankruptcy of a promising startup holds a number of lessons for other newcomers to the broadband market
Pay will still increase, albeit at a slower rate than last year, according to the Light Work salary survey
Standard for networking storage over IP gains momentum, including the endorsement of Fibre Channel players
Chorum has let go 250 employees, 31 percent of its staff, to cut costs
The startup says the money will go toward launching its IP services switch sometime soon
LuxN rounds up $55 million to keep it flush with cash for another year
Ericsson says about $59 million of its big, multi-contract China win includes routers it resells from Juniper
Victor Mizrahi and Turan Erdogan have set up Semrock to make optical components
After touting its customer contracts, Tachion pushes its fully-loaded product further into the future
Lucent and Nishan demo two distinct approaches to putting SANs over IP at Storage Networking World
Chipmaker says it's upping the ante on high-speed programmable chips for IP networking gear
Launches big switch that aims to help incumbents migrate to IP backbones
ONI's metro DWDM products are drawing attention. How deep have they gotten into Qwest's network?
Tellabs cuts expectations again, but the cuts are not as bad as those of peers in the sector
An outage on Qwest's network puts "legacy" ATM gear under fire once again
Q3 revenue numbers will decline 60 percent from Q2 levels; layoff and restructuring to begin immediately
European service providers like GTS are facing the same sort of problems as their American counterparts
Claims its tiny optical channel monitor will cost a fraction of the price of competing products
It is discontinuing its wavelength router -- and resolves to focus on the metro space
Nortel financed its recent contract win with AT&T Latin America. So did Cisco and Lucent
BrightLink closes Texas facility, lays off 27 percent of staff
Light Reading work poll reveals pessimism about startups but optimism about jobs
Redback announces it will report a quarterly loss, miss estimates, and cut 150 jobs
A resale and marketing deal highlights the growing importance of IP-based SANs
MEMS subsystem manufacturer pulls a sudden switch of CEO
Component startup announces its lab has produced 1 watt of power output on a chip-based laser
Texas startup seems to be still in the running at WorldCom and Genuity after others have been rejected
As part of a reorganization, the former head of Gadzoox Networks is taking the helm
Pass the Binoculars – R. Scott Raynovich
Bob Barron, president of Lucent's Metro Optical Networking group, has left the building UPDATED 5:15:00 PM
Sorrento discloses private placement investors, keeps mum on new customers
Upstages other vendors developing transceivers for 10-gig Ethernet equipment
