Another one bites the dust: Convergent pulls its $85M IPO from the calendar
Startup with MIT origins draws $17 million and an impressive executive team to pack more data into the last mile
Ellacoya's sales VP bolts as product delivery schedule slips
One of the optical industry's leaders dials out of Nortel -- possibly for a startup -- as a reorg gets underway
The Light Reading Index plumbs the depths of gloom. Survival is the name of the game
Its 10 milliwatt laser looks like a breakthrough, but it could be a publicity stunt
The market for intelligent optical devices is set to grow 59 percent, according to a report from Infonetics
As ADC and other big firms downsize, their support of optical startups appears to be waning
A bid for liquidity? Startup Mayan buys the tiny public company Ariel
Jasmine cuts staff by 25 percent and the CEO is gone. Did Nortel lead it astray? UPDATED 3/29/01 5pm EST
Brian McCormack, former head of worldwide sales for Avici, surfaces at a Texas startup
The telco world is in no rush to move voice traffic to the Internet, according to Cisco executives
Eighteen startups in Massachusetts are pooling their efforts to attract recruits
The Agere IPO gets priced at $6 per share, raising $3.6 billion. Shares trade up slightly in NYSE debut UPDATED 2pm ET
CEO John Roth has no "meaningful" guidance for the rest of the year. The company is cutting 15,000 jobs
About the most interesting thing about the latest MPLS interoperability test is the list of participants
Redback's marketing VP Larry Blair packs up for a two-month sojourn on the CART tour
Sorrento raises $10 million in a private placement sold below the market price of the stock -- investors unnamed
Corvis has some new business brewing, which may finally give Wall Street the news it's looking for
A former Cisco team leader admits to taking confidential information to a startup, Calix Networks
God is Dead — Stephen Saunders
A growing number of vendors are developing large MEMS-based optical switches
Hitachi's telecom unit is set to announce its new long-haul DWDM platform
Layoffs and the slowing economy are a mixed bag for startups
Small design and network-simulation software company appears to be on a roll
Sorrento Networks, ever hopeful, bends the discussion toward new financing ** UPDATED **
The new product demos and announcements that got the biggest buzz
The crème de la crème of research and development projects, according to the conference program's panel of experts
Lucent spinoff puts off its IPO until at least next week, cuts its price in half--UPDATED 3/22/01 3PM EST
... then along comes NEC with an even bigger claim for high-capacity transmission
Will focus on buying wee outfits working on next-gen technologies
Trade show booths should say a lot about a company. Sometimes they say too much
Distributed Raman pumping might actually damage fiber and create safety hazards
Teem's amplifier is used in experiments by AT&T and Lucent and demonstrated here at OFC
The cadaver rises: Are recycled startups the new trend?
The roar of the transponders, the fear of the crowd
Cisco aims to parlay its success in next-generation Sonet technology into victories in the DWDM market
OFC, which expects 40,000 attendees this week in Anaheim, is booming. That's not to say everything went smoothly
Michael Lebby, ex-leader of Intel Capital's optical investments, heads components design firm
Corning forecast sends another chill though the components business. Better times are at least six months away
High-capacity 40-Gbit/s and DWDM component developments dominate the opening of the Optical Fiber Conference
Nortel announces the key pieces to its strategy for beefing up the network's core equipment to speeds of 40-Gbit/s
Launches first product and describes technology -- some of it -- for making high-power, surface-emitting lasers
Agilent's put insider know-how of its test modules into new test software
Lucent's created AraLight, a startup claiming to generate 500-Gbit/s laser modules
Ocular says it has the solution to the service provisioning bottleneck
The company launches another low-cost optical access product, a DWDM unit
A portfolio of 70 new products will push toward broader DWDM channel counts and 40 Gbit/s speeds
OptiMight sees a Raman-free world through its new OMC1600 long-haul optical product
Startup's chip could lead to much larger-scale grooming switches
Movaz Networks looks to be working on an optical transport switch based on G-MPLS
Will show all-optical switch with optical wavelength conversion at OFC
Optical components maker Chorum surrenders to the market and yanks its $136 million IPO bid
KVH is making active components out of optical fiber, starting with a 40-Gbit/s modulator
The closely watched startup announces a giant optical switch that combines transport
... beyond recognition: Press release claims it -- not Juniper -- got the best results in Light Reading's router test
Fighting the gloom in the Texas Telecom Corridor
Newcomer unleashes a hoard of products, including a tunable laser that will compete with New Focus, Iolon
Big Carriers for a Big Internet -- Scott Clavenna
Siemens' Optisphere claims it's sent traffic at 3.2 terabits per second through WorldCom's network. Is it a first?
Startup looks to take on the giants by grooming smaller optical pipes UPDATED March 15
Will the startup's high-density Sonet box make music in the metro market?
Williams Communications' sale of $25 million in Sonus shares seems to say more about the carrier than its supplier
As Nasdaq plummets, WaveSplitter and OMM shelve their IPO plans, and Unisphere may be delayed
Startup unveils a chip-based amplifier for metro networks and bags $75M in funding
Ditech's spinoff claims to have a switch that supports 16,000 ports, with a million more to come
Beats Cisco and leaves other vendors in the dust in Light Reading's ground-breaking evaluation of terabit routers
Cisco Systems to eliminate as many as 8,000 temporary and regular positions in preparation for the slowdown
Grahame Rance has resigned from Caspian Networks to head up SBS Technologies
Tellium is still on track for its IPO, but the proceeds it hopes to raise have been cut in half
Kleiner Perkins-backed CLEC, Broadband Office, trims about 15 percent of its staff
Research published today points the way to making a silicon-based laser [UPDATED 3/9/01 9:15 AM ET]
Revenues have been lower than expected, but most analysts are maintaining their ratings [UPDATED 4:30 PM ET]
The march toward IPO has been slowed. We've adjusted our list accordingly
Was it founded by a VC firm that wouldn't take no for an answer?
Cisco's claims of OC48 market leadership backfire
Mayan finally announced a customer win, but some observers have their doubts
Citing a weakened market and poor visibility, JDSU has lowered Wall Street expectations for the second time in a month
DWDM components startup acquires Hyperfine to secure supplies of diffraction gratings
Cirrex is picking materials that enable it to automate the assembly of add-drop mux modules
Cisco's taken the lead on OC48, but Nortel dominates North America's OC192 market ** UPDATED **
Company cites industry slowdown in earnings warning; stock takes a hit
Investors signal that the optical stock freefall has gone on long enough
A trickle of news is starting to come out of the secretive laser startup
Poll results: Option packages are still seen as a key aspect of compensation, despite a slowdown
Carrier nets $43 million in cash by dumping one-third of its stake in the optical networking startup
In a matter of months, Onetta has landed a solid management team, plenty of cash, and customers
Integrated optics startup announces first products, heavyweight backers
PON is just an option in the startup's latest product, an Ethernet access box
Dr. Yang says her new startup's technology could drastically shorten development time for optical switch makers
Sycamore's likely to feel the squeeze from capital spending cuts announced by 360networks
Redback has been exploring options with Juniper and Nokia, but the market quashed a potential deal with Juniper
Agere is getting closer to its public offering, setting its price range between $12 and $14
A big bowl of optical chips puts Intel into the high-speed fray. Can it gain traction there?
Ironbridge's hopes for salvation are dashed as the company files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
Its claims of market leadership continue to gloss over its small share of the high-channel-count DWDM market
Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom -- Gary Shaffer
