It's playing catch up with Corvis and Lucent

Optical networking's about speeding up communications. Too bad some vendors' Websites do the opposite

Shareholders claim execs kept quiet about customer trouble while they sold off their stock

Startup borrows $12 million rather than give away equity at the wrong moment

Acquisition would deliver revenues and big customer accounts -- and the price might be right

Falling stock prices have landed Agilent, JDSU, and Nortel in S&P's value index

Lack of funding causes another Cisco-Powered Network to go bankrupt

Cisco is reportedly among the companies seeking an Ethernet standard for passive optical networks (PONs)

Sorrento execs deny rumors that engineers are fleeing, as company preps for a change of identity

Bonuses? What bonuses?

Sources say KP will cannibalize BroadBand Office to build a new service provider, code-named Domino

Cites unfavorable market conditions

Component vendor says unnamed buyer could account for 10 percent of next year's revenue. Is it Nortel?

Investment bank has applied for SEC approval for a fund covering 21 optical stocks

The Light Reading Index moved up 6.7 percent today to 697.00

Claims big advance by using metal rather than silicon for arrays of tiny tilting mirrors

The Service-Aware Switch -- Scott Clavenna

The optical switch startup replaces Cyras as No. 6 in Light Reading's Top 10 Private Companies

Juniper's gobbling market share as fast as Cisco can lose it, says report

A Canadian VC hunts for a stake in Corvis through a takeover bid of testing firm Roctest

The beleaguered company tries to straighten out the books by cutting costs, jobs, forecasts, and restating results

In its $1.7B bid to buy Cyras, Ciena got rid of a vesting acceleration clause for top execs. Bah humbug!

Cisco isn't running a charity for cash-strapped carriers -- even though it looks like it

The Light Reading Index closes down a smidge. More bad news for Lucent, but Qwest rallies

Light Reading Index continues its tumble

After his downgrade batters Cisco's share price, Michael Ching says the optical business is not the problem

Light Management Group has managed to demonstrate one of its wild ideas

Depending on your perspective, the move could be forward-looking or foolhardy

Makers of hybrid fiber coax networking gear say carriers aren't buying. What does the future hold?

Interoperability trials have breathed new life into Sycamore's standards efforts

Former Baby Bell's weak projections and flat spending plan renew concerns about shrinking capital spending

After issuing an earnings warning, the company's stock has lost nearly half its value in after-hours trading

Juniper, a previous investor, will be included -- but valuations have flattened from frothier levels

Networking companies were among the hardest hit in this afternoon's broad sell-off

Deal gives Ciena the equivalent of Cisco's Cerent, but it will dilute earnings [UPDATED 11AM ET]

Its recent bond default highlights problems for debt-laden European carriers

An alarmist financial report kicks off a panic among Extreme shareholders, who knock the stock down 24 percent

What were Lucent execs doing with all those shares?

Xelerated Packet Devices promises to speed switch/router manufacture

Metro optical networking player lands a $60M funding round, with six leading investment banks participating

The companies say the regulatory process has slowed down the deal

California institute nets more than $200 million in funding to build high-bandwidth optical and wireless network

Components competitors may enter a bidding war for JDSU's Zurich laser facility, if the DOJ forces it to be sold

Alcatel may not be investing in Ironbridge anymore, calling future prospects into question

A slowdown in the communications chip market is almost certain. But it may help correct inventory issues

Lucent's stock price has Wall Street talking -- but not many people see the sense in a Lucent buyout

Sycamore extends gigabit Ethernet support across its product portfolio

Rumor du jour: Ciena may buy Cyras, with a price tag of $2 billion being discussed

CEO shifts have sent rumors flying, but the company says it's still on track for an IPO

Sweden's Optillion isn't cheating: Its transceivers will carry 10 gigabit Ethernet over a single channel

ATM technology fizzles in the access space

A New Look -- R. Scott Raynovich

Stock stumbles following marathon Monday conference call

Zhone will buy its fifth company as it strives to be a one-stop shop for last-mile networking gear

Juniper keeps the heat on Cisco, spending $260M on Micro Magic, an ASIC tools company

This optical packet node vendor is among the first to announce a product and a trial customer

Lucent's investors finally have something to look forward to: A $100M IPO for its microelectronics division

Radlan to sell a "build your own router" kit in conjunction with leading communications chip companies

Components vendor IPG Photonics is betting its future on the success of emerging technologies like optical wireless

Former Cambrian colleagues form Akara and bag $17 million in first round funding

The DOJ will most likely have a decision on the optical megamerger in the next couple of weeks

Only the most promising R&D projects get government grants. Here are the hottest optical ones

Optical component integration and automated manufacturing have just begun, say conference panelists

Rhythms has put off payments to some investors, raising more questions about vendor financing

Ciena delivers a solid Q4 and predicts it will benefit from a shift away from legacy equipment

A new division's in the works, set to launch tunable lasers. Can it succeed under the Marconi umbrella?

According to its statistical spin, Nortel's the WDM market leader -- but for how long?

Once Lucent spins off its Agere IPO, what's left? A big fat bargain, some analysts say

Alcatel settles its lawsuit with IPOptical by taking a piece of the action

New Gilder Report sends New Focus shares soaring

Simulant says its software can eliminate time-wasting trial and error when designing waveguides

The role of investment banks in its $85 million third round, announced today, indicates that an IPO is in the offing

Big pay-off is in supporting thousands of connections in access nets, not in boosting overall bandwidth

Employee theft case heightens awareness of Calix -- which lists Cisco's Carl Russo on its board

KPNQwest gave carriers the mockingbird in its request for bids for a... wishbone network?

Xilinx, Altera, and others go public with guidance revisions on cancelled orders. But investors saw it coming

RHK says Asia-Pacific carriers will quadruple spending on optical networks by 2004

Kevin Kalkhoven, former JDS Uniphase CEO, joins investors in backbone system startup

TyCom says it's built the first 32-wavelength subsea cable system. So does Alcatel

Contract with Star 21 highlights strategy to support European startup carriers

Scottish startup gets $18M to develop hybrid optical components

Goldman Sachs is the lead investor in its $52M second round; can an IPO be far off?

Letter From Europe -- Scott Clavenna

Management and provisioning software activity picks up for optical networks; but don't hold your breath

They're setting up development centers that tap into a vast pool of talented, low-cost engineers

Clinches a deal with a big real estate company that turns the heat up on the competition