JDSU still in talks with the SEC about how to take a $40 billion charge on goodwill; third-quarter restatement coming

Morgan Stanley says Corning's swapped half-price fiber for orders in China. Price war? Or plain ol' dumping?

Williams raises cash by selling off shares of ONI and Corvis

Company has shed two thirds of its staff and is struggling to stay alive

Its MEMS modules have passed muster with Telcordia. Will that be enough to ensure its survival?

Cisco takes the fall for the optical market, as Morgan Stanley casts doubt on the quarter

What's hot: IP services and edge access. What's not: optical switching and components. So says the Optical Oracle

Celox Network stocks up on cash in tough times as it inches toward shipment of its IP service switch

Investment marks a revival of interest in free-space optics

Lucent CEO Schacht has told employees another layoff is coming. It's probably a big one

Cisco's latest acquisition hasn't gone over too well, as competitors charge the company is manipulating standards efforts

Anil Khatod, Nortel's chief marketing and strategy officer, steps down just days before scheduled earnings call

Juniper continues to trim costs as core spending slows

Bob Barron takes the helm at an optical components player in sunny southern California

Says its HyperFine DWDM technology can deliver the same capacity per fiber in a totally different way

A Light Reading report gives the grisly details and offers advice to victims

Technology experts are scaling back their estimates for the adoption of higher-speed technologies

Losses and lawsuits are taking their toll on Redback's share price, encouraging takeover speculation

Here's what our camera captured at NFOEC.

APN, a startup, says it has figured out how to apply CDMA technology to optical networks. Observers are skeptical

Joint testing lends credibility to the startup's 1550-nanometer VCSEL claims

Enjoy the Summer – Scott Clavenna

More grim news from Alcatel, Corning, and Newport leads the market decline as the Light Reading Index hits a new low

Next-generation metro components dominated the product news at the fiber-optic engineering conference in Baltimore

Qwest joins Genuity and WorldCom in taking a look at Metro-Optix

Cisco's DWDM enhancements and OSMINE certification point to growing effort to land RBOC/ILEC deals

Bandwidth glut? Corvis CEO David Huber and Williams CTO Matt Bross say it's only in Wall Street's imagination

Startup ditches switch strategy in favor of selling subsystems

Comcast has gone public with details of a whopping big bid for AT&T Broadband. Can it succeed?

Report shows that valuations of private companies have plummeted -- and getting new financing is no easy task

It's getting ultra-long-haul technology plus an all optical switch for "less than $1 million"

This week the US Congress will resume debate on the Tauzin-Dingell bill, determining the future of broadband access

Net Insight looks to upstage sibling Dynarc with contract to deploy DTM technology in a US media network

After exploring options for months, Zaffire has found a buyer and its management team says goodbye

A recent report says tunable lasers will comprise roughly 26 percent of all lasers manufactured worldwide by 2005

Analyst Steve Levy adjusts his forecast for Ciena, and investors head for the hills

With more cutbacks, a new CEO, and no officially announced customer, Kestrel's future isn't exactly clear

Too bad there aren't any buyers. Still, some say the telecom downturn has fueled a potentially big aftermarket

It's just rearranging the deck chairs, and it's not the Titanic, says Trellis's chairman

Price drops by more than 50% after company issues profit warning last night

Plans to demo a low-cost, directly modulated laser capable of carrying 2.5 Gbit/s 300 kilometers

Moody's lowers its bond ratings on Nortel; says Nortel may see further downgrades UPDATED: 07/03, 6:00 PM

The startup has achieved a big leap forward in framer chip technology

Civcom has raised another $10.5 million for its optical switch component developments

Stock market stability and steady corporate earnings are needed before the M&A deal frenzy can begin again

Wall Street punished Avanex as it announced it had reduced its workforce by more than 40% and lowered guidance

The startup and its closest competitor were founded by the same guys -David Bloom and Asif Godil

LuxN is adding more wavelengths and intelligent switching to its transport portfolio to make a play for the metro market

$45 million third round brings Actelis’s funding total to $74 million