Qwest incorporates Juniper Networks' M160T Internet backbone routers into its existing broadband optical network

With $1 million from the state of Pennsylvania, partners include Lucent, Corning, and Sycamore Networks

Revenues were $33.9M, up 94% from the $17.5M reported for Q4 1999; revenues for fiscal 2000 were $100.7M

Net sales increase 26% from the third quarter

Zhone and CIT Group form $300M strategic partnership to enable buildout of next-generation networks

SpringTide 7000 IP services switch is key element in ucent's "service intelligent" architecture for IP networks

Announces the 12410 and 12416 Internet routers - the two newest members of Cisco's 12000 Series Internet router family

12400 Internet routers and ONS 15327 metro edge platform are key components of integrating IP networks and optical transport

534% increase in revenues, pro forma operating profit and EPS of $0.02

Reported a full year sales increase of 144% over 1999 to Euro 432.3 million (US$403M)

Full year 2000 total group sales amounted to Euro 31,408 million (US$29.3M), an expansion of 36% over 1999

First quarter revenues increased by 8 percent to Euro 1.66 billion (US$1.54B) compared with first quarter 2000

Deal is worth about $36 million

Revenues for the fourth quarter ended December 31 were $116,099,000, an increase of 40% over Q4 1999

Announces net revenue for Q4 2000 of $33.9 million; increases revenue guidance for fiscal year 2001

To acquire Italian-based Gefran Silicon Microsystem, a fiber-optic-technology laboratory, for approximately $55 million in cash

Frost & Sullivan's "Mergers and Acquisitions: Is the Timing Right?"

Policy-based network management system to increase service velocity and set meaningful SLAs

Optical networking system is providing NTT Communications with a 16,000% increase in network capacity

Opens 55,000 square-foot manufacturing facility and launches production of high-speed fiber optic components

MetroRED Telecomunicacoes deploys Ciena's MultiWave CoreStream on its high-capacity network connecting Sao Paulo and Rio

Acquisition of manufacturer of LCD technologies to enhance Chorum's position in the next-generation fiber-optics market

Fujitsu providing high-capacity equipment for 360networks' European fiber optic mesh network

Sign software licensing agreement for Tellabs to sell advanced SoftSwitch solutions

Will showcase end-to-end metropolitan optical access solution from January 30 to February 1 at Comnet Expo

Lucent will re-sell Ceragon’s networking equipment to global service providers

Multiservice optical networking platform is optimized for deployment in smaller central offices and multitenant units

Annual sales totaled $200,419,000, a 21% increase over 1999

To supply Finnet International with advanced DWDM and SDH equipment for a submarine link between Finland and Sweden

Internet offload device being tested by Qwest and others.

Startup claims unique take on metro space

Rick Roscitt and Lynn Davies to take over from William J. Cadogan

Switches STS12, STS3, and STS1 streams in metro networks, multiservice switches, and digital access switches

New switch series SSX aimed at offering automated provisioning of differentiated IP services, says Marconi

Plans to launch ultra-long distance products at OFC in March

Operating loss will be $15-$15.5 million versus guidance of $11 million

Plans to sell 8 million shares of common stock

Cisco is part of a $25M round of new funding for StoreAge Networking Technologies

Acquisition of Measurement Microsystems A-Z Inc. will result in lower cost, smaller DWDM subsystems, says Bookham

Dennis P. Wolf, former CFO of Credence Systems Corp., is new CFO and senior VP of finance & administration

Before joining Zaffire, Keith Kreager held senior management positions with Antec Corp. and CommCon

Revenues of $175.6 million for the fourth quarter ended December 31; revenue for the full year was a record $504.8 million

160-channel platform to build high-capacity subsystems for 1.6-Tbit/s fiber optic telecom systems

For the fourth quarter of 2000, Harmonic reported net sales of $52.0 million; net sales of $263.0 million on the year

Revenue for the fourth quarter was a record $376.1 million; for the full year 2000 revenue was a record $1.1 billion

David S. Oros, chairman and CEO of Aether Systems, replaces Vinod Khosla who has served since 1998

Second funding round for optical components manufacturer was led by Menlo Ventures and Oak Investment Partners

High-volume optical networking devices manufacturing facility in Fountain Valley, Calif.

Company reports 183% revenue growth and 185% earnings growth

Pro forma earnings per share of $0.34, up 89% from $0.18 in Q4 1999 and exceeding the company's guidance of $0.30

Expect to complete their merger in February, after addressing Justice Department concerns

Filed with the SEC for a potential offering of up to US$3 billion of debt securities, preferred shares, etc.

Former Williams, Nortel, Global Crossing executives launch Valiant Networks

To extend Web-based Ethernet platform in 20 U.S. cities

Quarterly revenue exceeds $5 billion; full-year 2000 pro forma revenue grew more than 14 percent to $19 billion

Family of coarse wavelength-division multiplexing modules supporting 10-Gbit/s Ethernet

Has shipped samples of an S-Band 40-Channel arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) DWDM multiplexer/demultiplexer

15,000 square-foot facility in Irvine, Calif., will be the product development center for optoelectronic interfaces

Former JDS Uniphase exec Bryant Hichwa has been appointed Executive VP, will be heading up MPI's new U.S. subsidiary

Will supply Fujitsu with up to 10,000 WDM bidirectional transceiver modules per month in 2001

Announces Q1 pro forma loss from continuing operations of 30 cents per share; plan to reduce expenses by $2 billion

Solectron Corp. will be Cinta's full turnkey manufacturing house for upcoming products

Ex-Nortel veteran Jim Haynes to guide Agility through volume manufacturing phase

William C. Wiberg, former president of Lucent's cellular and PCS wireless networks division, has joined the firm

Net revenues for the quarter ending December 31 were $47.9 million; pro forma net income was $4.1 million or $0.06 per share

To deliver differentiated billing and revenue models integrated with advanced IP service offerings

Larry Thalacker, formerly at ECI Telecom, will join the company as Director of Hardware Engineering

Revenues in the first quarter of fiscal 2001 were $165.1 million, an increase of 85% over the $89.3 million in Q1 2000

Will acquire 100% of the stock of Tropel Corp. in a transaction valued at approximately $190 million

Brett Helm, newly named president and COO, and Marcel Gani, CFO of Juniper Networks, join company's board of directors

Under terms of $5M deal, FiberNet will provide Cogent with direct access to tenants in commercial office properties

Cambridge Broadband's VectaStar 3500 point-to-multipoint system operates in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band and delivers up to 60 Mbit/s

Sales rise 42 percent, operating earnings up 41 percent for Q4 2000

Marconi's optical technology is to link over 70 sites on Bayernwerk Netkom's fiber voice and data network in Germany

WavePrecision, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GSI Lumonics, will focus on providing precision optics to the telecom industry

The Larscom 4800

Form a partnership to supply solutions that enable telecom service providers to test, monitor, and manage their optical networks

Vincent Bisceglia, former CEO of Neon Communications, and RoadRunner co-founder Stephen Van Beaver join its Board of Directors

New Octal DS3 cards for the Plexus 9000 provide 91,392 DS0 ports per shelf

The S3086, a 30-Mbit/s to 2.7-Gbit/s continuous rate clock and data recovery unit (CDR)

Have teamed to provide intellectual property cores to enable faster development of gigabit Ethernet application products

Smart IAD2400 provides a seamless service migration from circuit-switched voice to packet-switched next-gen IP services

Etienne Fouques has been named President of Alcatel's Carrier Networking Group

ASCmanager supports point-and-click provisioning over converged access nets

12-port reference design supports both copper and fiber gigabit interfaces with Alaska Quad+ transceiver

In connection with the acquisition, Marvell will issue approximately 29.1M shares of its common stock to Galileo shareholders

Partnerships with Marconi SecurTrust and ISS provide complete security solution from initial assessment to performance management

Can deliver up to 3.125 Gbit/s over eight full-duplex lanes for an aggregate 50 Gbit/s on a single device

IP access for Convergent's Virtual Phone Service rolls out in four major metro hubs

Startup is developing a large scale all-optical switch

Suit targets Steve Wallach, VP of technology, as well as venture capital firms CenterPoint Venture Partners and Paluck Associates

Dr. Julian Thomson previously served as Vice President of Engineering for Mayan Networks

Cable & Wireless will supply News Corporation with global telecom services over the next three years

Albert Cohen was CEO of Siemens's Packet Switching division

Projects the worldwide optical transport market will reach $57.3 billion in 2005

Also revising its guidance for fiscal year 2001

Sells arrayed waveguide gratings for metro equipment.

Broadata Communications Inc. will make optical equipment for enterprises and carriers

President and Chief Operating Officer Paul R. Engle elected to the Avanex Board of Directors for a term expiring in 2003

Revenues up 42% for 2000, 34% in the quarter; EPS from operations up 42% for 2000, 24% in the quarter

Technology Frontier Award from the Wireless Communications Association

Agreement includes deployment of Lucent's WaveStar TDM OC-48 solution in the New York metro area

To focus principally on its high-growth, higher-margin Corporate and Broadband business segments

Revenues increased 102% from the preceding quarter; pro forma net loss per share of $0.26

Revenues up 3 percent sequentially; earnings before goodwill $0.31 per share

Stockholders approve name change, new board of directors, and increase in authorized shares of common stock

Harry L. Bosco, Former Lucent Technologies Group President Of Optical Networking, to be President/CEO

Will supply Powercomm, a subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Company, with a high-speed broadband optical transmission system

Builds on approximately $90M in network capacity already purchased from Qwest by Cable & Wireless

Developer of second-generation fixed broadband wireless access systems in tests with a wireless Internet service provider

To provide fiber optic cable for Aerie Networks' broadband network in the U.S.

Main business unit of troubled carrier adopts name of previous acquisition

Q4 2000 pro forma net income up 143% and revenue increases 42% from prior quarter

Dr. Krishna Bala, CTO of Tellium, and Dr. Radia Perlman, engineer at Sun Microsystems, join its Technical Advisory Board

Revenue for Q2 of fiscal 2001, ended December 31, 2000, increased to $144.7 million, compared to $55M in Q2 of fiscal 2000

Cisco Systems, Dynarc, Lantern Communications, Luminous Networks, and Nortel Networks seek to standardize RPR technology

Has acquired dark fiber on metropolitan networks in Munich, Berlin, and Zurich

Derek McAuley will direct Marconi's new Research Centre in Cambridge

For $75 million and 10,033,556 shares of New Focus common stock

Industry's first gigabit Ethernet interface module for the Aranea-1 Terabit Router

John W. Gamble Jr. has been named senior VP and treasurer; Kevin Pennington will be senior VP, human resources

Sales up 144% to US$28.5 million; net earnings from operations up 477% to US$7.5 million

Expects 50% Q4 2001 revenue growth over previous quarter

Revenues of $143.3 million, pro forma earning per share of $0.16 for third quarter fiscal 2001

Dave House to lead development and launch of innovative broadband networking technology

Supports both IP- and ATM-based networks

AppCelera ICX model targeting large enterprises and service providers

For deployment of Lucent's WaveStar OLS 1.6T, an ultra-high-capacity DWDM system

New 5,500 square meter production and R&D facility in Meiningen, Germany

Will jointly develop a series of advanced, micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) chips

Has filed a petition for Chapter 11 protection; will proceed with a structured sale of its business and assets

Steven Hane is vice president of business development and sales

Kirk Flatow, formerly with Harmonic Inc. and Flextronics International

Component startup's mezzanine financing round was led by San Francisco-based Van Waggoner Capital Management

Pro forma net income was $84.6 million or $0.24 per share for the period ending December 31, 2000

To provide its comprehensive Packet Backbone Network, which includes Juniper's IP backbone technology, to Telia International Carrier

Brett Helm, former Intel executive and IPivot CEO, named president and chief operating officer

Claims its Yafo10 PMD compensator eliminates polarization mode dispersion

Funding for optical components manufacturer Molecular OptoElectronics Corporation was led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners

200GHz-spacing ITU channel DWDM

Will add support for Ciena's Optical Switching and Routing Protocol to its new optical switching and routing test system

From BellSouth, which commits to purchase $250 million in Qwest services

John Vice joins Geyser after a distinguished 19-year career at Nortel Networks

2.4-Gbit/s performance delivers 7 times the power of existing solutions, eliminating security bottlenecks in VPNs

Hamid Ahmadi to join application performance infrastructure developer

Corvis will begin delivering products during Q1 2001 for deployment in Williams’s nationwide network; deal worth $300M

Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Interface Based on Parallel Optics; and Serial OC-192 1310 nanometer Very Short Reach (VSR) Interfaces

Available for cable, fiber optics, wireless, and DSL, via Nortel, World Wide Packets, Wireless Inc., and Mpower

Zaffire, Foundry Networks, and UTStarcom team to deliver metro broadband IP solutions

The telecommunications industry’s first implementation of advanced service-level agreements for optical networks

Radiance Optical Ethernet System is designed to provide complete fiber connectivity in 1-Mbit/s increments up to a Gigabit

Adds production platform of more than 20,000 square feet to its plant in Lannion, Brittany

Service Generation System (SGS), carrier-class service generation system for delivery of customized value services

Formerly known as Gigabit Wireless, new investors include Amerindo, Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, and J.P. Morgan

Names Baksheesh Ghuman, recently with Sorrento Networks, as vice president of marketing

IP Communications will install its ERX-1400 Edge Routing Switch in regional hubs in the U.S. Southwest

Flashwave OADX capable of transmitting 1.76 Tbit/s over long haul without regeneration

Compact version, the GN 400, is designed for applications requiring less than 20 Gbit/s of bandwidth

Loren Stokes joined Cierra as director of R&D after 12 years with Hewlett-Packard and its spinoff, Agilent Technologies

SURPASS hiQ allows for re-use of TDM switching platforms for continued support of existing technologies

Optical Application Router 5 uses tunable lasers for on-demand bandwidth provisioning and dynamic optical scaling

Prior to joining Zaffire, Jeffrey D. Lin directed and managed investments for Vulcan Ventures

Advanced semiconductor packaging squeezes four times the switching capability into a single chip

At the 7th Annual Wireless Communications Association Technical Symposium, January 17-19, in San Jose

The WT-2750 Multipoint Broadband Wireless System, a carrier-class solution for fixed wireless communications

Optenia will focus on reducing the cost of bandwidth distribution in optical networks

Duncan Lewis was Managing Director and Chief Corporate Development Officer of Equant NV

Offering of senior notes will be used by KPNQwest to finance the development of its network

To collaborate on router search and classification engine technology

Oppenheimer leads funding of sub-assembly manufacturer

Will house engineering and product manufacturing operations

ADC and Herrick Douglass form strategic alliance to provide OSS solutions to U.S. telecom market

Approximately 4,000 regular full-time positions will be eliminated in the near term

Device integrates a 40-channel DWDM and a 40-channel variable optical attenuator into a single module

Up to 2900 employees in Texas, the U.K., Italy, and Germany will transfer to Jabil Circuit

Total funding of more than $133 million makes Terawave the highest-financed optical access network equipment startup

Building the world's most advanced IP transatlantic cable

Its Internet infrastructure software in trials with leading service providers

Its subsidiary, Horizon Photonics has received an order for micro-optic assemblies from a leading telecom systems manufacturer

Appoints former Vulcan Ventures investment executive Jeffrey W. Lin as its chief financial officer

Extends optical network infrastructure to Boston, Dallas, Miami, Los Angeles, and London

Total funding of $133M makes Terawave the best financed optical access network equipment startup

Announces support for Cisco's Spatial Reuse Protocol (SRP) on the Adtech AX/4000 platform

Companies developing first nationwide gigabit Ethernet network

Telus will deploy Alcatel’s 7670 Routing Switch Platform throughout their core backbone

Alcatel has been selected by Deutsche Telekom to supply network management systems

To promote broadband and mobile network device business by divesting optical and microwave semiconductor operations

£6 million (US$8.9 million) contract to extend the NetCologne optical network in Germany

Strategic alliance to provide OSS solutions to U.S. telecom market

Global Crossing receives 108.2 million Exodus shares, representing a 20 percent equity interest in Exodus

Optical cassette modules designed to be compatible with high-density fiber management systems

Debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank brings to $18.5 million the amount raised in less than four months

Liaoning Telecom to deploy its 80-channel DWDM system, the WaveStar OLS 400G

Funding round for semiconductor company led by Vertex Management Israel

Between its new IP Core Network Probe and two leading-edge solutions from Computer Associates International

Will deploy the Ericsson PipeRider HM200c cable modem to its customers nationwide

186k selects Nortel Networks for £67M (US$100M) network development

DWDM submarine cable will connect Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan and will complete the pan-Asian ring buildout by Level 3 and Flag

Marc Randall joins Force 10 Networks as VP of engineering

320,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Shenzhen is currently manufacturing passive optical components

Samsung will offer Dynarc’s family of auto-provisioning routers to the Korean telecom market

The PlexView Element Manager and the PlexView Billing System are added to the Plexus 9000 switching platform

PcVu brings full-screen multichannel digital television to the subscriber's personal computer

Heikki Hiltunen will be responsible for advancing Tellabs' business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

Projects cash revenue of $7.1 to $7.2 billion, adjusted EBITDA of approximately $2 billion

Joe R. Armstrong spent 15 years with State Of The Art Inc., a leading provider of accounting software

A minority equity investment in Avantas Networks Corp., a privately held telecom network testing equipment company

FiberSpace's planned portfolio includes laser transmitter modules for OC48 and OC192 applications in closely spaced DWDM systems

Will deliver networking solutions that allow metro service providers to use Ethernet in the first mile over VDSL

The complaint charges Lucent and two of its top officers with misrepresenting the company's revenues and earnings

General availability of its previously announced 10-Gbit/s transponder for STM64 and OC192 applications

Handles 10 Gbits/s of traffic or more than 500,000 simultaneous VOIP calls over a single fiber

Will employ 50 engineers, but this figure is expected to rise to at least 200 within 18 months

Submarine cable system will connect Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei

Deployment will provide OC-92 wavelength services in major cities throughout the U.S.

Has rolled out teams in Boston and Munich, the latter led by Bernd Runge, formerly of Lucent

Gigabit Ethernet broadband access manufacturer closes first round, led by Azure Capital Partners of San Francisco

WorldCom optical network, powered by Nortel's OPTera Long Haul 1600 Optical Line System, can now carry up to 1.6 Tbit/s

CityStream bandwidth manager system tested at National Semiconductor laboratory and Litton Interconnect Technologies

Bill Kastanis was a co-founder of SputterTek LLC, which was merged with Cierra earlier this year

Paul Yazge most recently was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Professional Services at Zaffire

Has been awarded a patent, together with 3COM, for Ethernet transport facility over DSL technology

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology offers reduced power consumption and cost reduction for fiber optic modules

Will issue 5.75% convertible subordinated notes

Will expand the network of Iceland Telecom Ltd. with Marconi SmartphotoniX DWDM technology

Photonics systems development and MEMS fabrication now integrated

BlueStream Ventures led the financing, intended to support production of the DiamondWave photonic switching system

The Orinoco is a fully-integrated framing and mapping device capable of aggregating 12 DS3/E3/EC1s to an OC12 (STS12/STM4)

Berkeley International Capital led the financing round, bringing total investment to $53.5 million

Bandwidth9 unveils first tunable laser subsystem based on vertical-cavity lasers

Turk Telekom awards Alcatel a $30 million dollar contract for its nationwide DWDM network

Plans to reduce its workforce by 20 to 25 percent as part of its plan to restructure the company

Équipe Communications selects Denali Products to speed memory subsystem development

Completes tender offer for shares of Objective Systems Integrators Inc.

54,000 square-foot facility supports software engineering, customer training, and partner interoperability Lab

360networks will be GiantLoop's preferred provider of North American and transatlantic broadband network services

Intel and Nortel Networks have joined Credit Suisse First Boston to raise total funding to $100 million

Will use Metromedia Fiber Network's optical Internet infrastructure

Finds multimode fiber handles gigabit Ethernet traffic up to twice the distance indicated by standards

Has significantly enlarged and upgraded its Princeton facility

Impsat Fiber Networks will deploy Corning LEAF fiber in its Argentina-Brazil network

Accused of issuing materially false or misleading statements concerning revenue and earnings in Q4 2000

Everest Broadband Networks has completed its third round of financing with Exelon Capital Partners as the lead investor

Company is accused of misleading the investing public by overstating revenues

Lucent Technologies has completed the sale of its Power Systems business to Tyco International for $65 million

Asia Global Crossing has sold an STM-4 on its East Asia Crossing to Cable & Wireless

David Walsh named president and COO; Gary Cohen to be president and COO Of Global Crossing Solutions, a new unit

From two customers, totaling $12M, for OC48 and OC192 receivers, transmitters, and lithium niobate modulators

Approximately two million shares of Extreme Networks common stock will be exchanged for all outstanding shares of Optranet