Begins manufacturing waveguide amplifiers using physical vapor deposition process technology

Announces contract wins in Canada and South Korea

Income registered a loss of €10.1 million (US$9.09M); sales for Q3 declined by 37% from Q2; layoffs announced

Matáv deploys Cisco ONS 15800 and 15200 DWDM solutions in long-haul and metro networks

Earnings per share narrowed to $0.09 from a third quarter loss a year ago of $0.15; announces incentive program

At Euro 95.0 million, sales are 37% down on previous month and 24% down on year-ago figure.

3Q revenues of EURO 5,613 million are down 18% from a year ago. Net loss is EURO 558 million.

Its letter of intent regarding the financing of iNetworks, a venture developing a terabit router, expires on Oct 31

SwitchPoint Networks has promoted William S. Beans Jr. to the position of CEO

Cox Communications has selected Motorola's Broadband Services Routers (BSRs) to deliver multi-tiered broadband services

Steve Kohalmi is one of the co-founders of Quarry Technologies

Unveils a modular passive optical system for its ON 7000 Sonet node that will optimize transmission of DWDM optical wavelengths

Nortel deploys IP networking for Verizon Wireless; enhances network in key markets to provide new data services, additional capacity

Qusion Technologies opens fabrication facility with 3,000 square-foot class 1000 clean room

Investors in the $25 million second funding round include ADC, the Solidarity QFL Fund, and Innovatech Grand Montreal

Enters OSMINE compliance process with Telcordia; has received NEBS Level 3 certification for its OptiFlow 3000 series products

Spirent Communications led $16 million Series B funding, which gives Caw Networks something to crow about

Demand cash in advance!

Develops the world's first automatic diagnostic system to analyze routing failures between Internet sites

BT Broadcast Services continues to expand Its i-View fiber network

Announces support for PBX/T1/E1 subscriber-side interfaces on its Frontera series of intelligent packet access platforms

Aberdeen Group sees the planar lightwave circuit (PLC) market reaching $1.29 billion by 2005

The IOE 11121 C-Band In-Line Amplifier with 0.5dB gain flatness

Chaffee Fiber Optics releases a 251-page report identifying promising new opportunities in the last-mile fiber optics market sector

Orbiant comprises Neterna, Telia Service, Telia Systems, Evega, Relacom, and Wireless Network Management

Expand Center of Excellence collaboration to include network security processors

Net income of $2.04 billion, or adjusted diluted earnings per share of 75 cents, a 2.8 percent increase from the third quarter 2000

Foundry to develop routing solution including OSPFv3, RIPng, and BGP4+ routing protocol support, using IP Infusion's routing software

Kevin Loosemore has been named president of Europe, Middle East & Africa. Alert the UN!

John Bumgarner, ex-Intel, joins Kyma Technologies, a developer and supplier of nitride substrates, as vice president of engineering

Launches full-time and occasional end-to-end video transmission services in the US and Japan using switched fiber optic transmission

William (Bill) C. Tucker named vice president (VP) of marketing (mktg)

Stop the presses!

They totalled a mere £2.4m ($3.6m), but the company has cut its burn rate by 36% in the past quarter

Achieved positive EBITDA of EUR 2.7 Million in 3rd quarter, compared to year-ago loss of EUR(31.2) million

Verifies and qualifies provider edge routers being implemented for BGP/MPLS virtual private networks

Both screwdriver tip and conical lens geometries are available

Digital Supermode – Distributed Bragg Reflector (DS-DBR) InP laser provides high power, full ITU C-band coverage

Circadiant Systems has secured an investment from Intel Capital; delivers intelligent and automated optical testing platform

Ships 12 new IP telephony products for converged voice, video, and data networks

Former Solinet Systems announces completion of its executive team, including Scott Marshall as President and CEO

Third-quarter optical component revenues record sequential growth of 66 percent; net loss is $0.34 per share

Kevin Kalkhoven, co-founder of Kalkhoven Pettit & Levin Ventures LLC and previous chief executive officer of JDS Uniphase Corp.

Industry's first 10-gigabit Ethernet physical layer IC for next-generation metropolitan access networks

The SmartEdge 800 Router is being evaluated at 15 service providers worldwide

RouteScience PathControl measures the end-to-end Internet performance between an organization and its own end users

Names Dr. David Newman president and CEO, Al Sadler, COO; cuts a third of its workforce

Spider Software will port its SpiderTCP and SpiderSTREAMS products to the IBM PowerNP 4GS3

Net sales for the quarter reached a record $3.24 billion, but the company plans to cut its workforce by 15%

Has added new testing features for frame relay networks to its LITE 3000E handheld network testing instrument

Announces a multiyear agreement with Allegiance Telecom to provide 2.5-Gbit/s lightwave services in the carrier's major metro markets

Veeco Instruments Inc. reports 2001 third quarter and nine month results

Applied Materials Ventures I to team with emerging companies developing processing technologies and silicon optical devices

Net loss for the quarter was $437 million, or $1.17 per share

Announces a pro forma net loss of $2.5M ($0.10 per share diluted) on revenue of $26.6M for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2001

Occam Networks opens third R&D center in Petaluma; to add hardware and software engineers to develop broadband access solutions

Wind River completes Tornado for Managed Switches integration support for Motorola's C-Port C-5 network processor

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. achieves uncompressed HDTV transmission system over the Internet

Five subsidiaries that are part of the 360atlantic group of companies have voluntarily filed for protection

The company reported Q3 revenues of $5.8 million, compared to revenues of $8.0 million for Q2

Revenues of $6,189,000 for the third quarter of 2001 ended September 30, down from $16,277,000 in the third quarter of fiscal 2000

Sales for the first quarter were 45% below sales of $601 million reported for the quarter ended June 30, 2001

Revenues for the third quarter totaled $4,280,000, a 6% decline from the Q2 2001 and a 28% decline from the year-ago quarter

Pro forma net loss for the current quarter was $40.3 million, or $0.11 loss per share

Announces 3 commercial supply agreements to develop and manufacture optical components targeted at metro DWDM and other telecom markets

Cameron Saifi named executive VP and COO; David Arbeitel named VP and CTO

Visual Networks and Vanguard Managed Solutions will work together to offer improved managed network services to Vanguard's customers

Latest round of financing led by Technology Crossover Ventures and Oak Investment Partners

Enables carriers to deploy DSL directly in IP or ATM networks, or a combination of both

Company to appeal delisting decision

19 employees will be 'terminated' within the next 60 days in contemplation of ARC's pending merger with Cogent

Robert Ripp, chairman of LightPath, will assume the responsibilities of Donald Lawson

Has named Francis J. O'Brien executive vice president and chief financial officer

ONWAVE OC192 Sonet/SDH ADM with integrated STS1 switching, full overhead transparency, and optional DWDM or standard 1310nm optics

Con Edison Communications, Edison Carrier Solutions, and Progress Telecom create strategic alliance of 'carriers' carriers'

To sell its Optical Sensing Systems (OSS) business to Weatherford International

For the year ended September 29, 2001, Sanmina reported revenues of $4.1 billion; revenues for Q4 were $600.7 million

Absent investment write-downs and other charges, earnings are $0.65 per share, compared with the Wall Street consensus estimate of $0.53

With Telindus, delivers four major metro networks in the UK, Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands

Expands business to include long-wave optical transceivers for metropolitan and access network segments

Its optical phase locked loop (OPLL) technology platform maximizes the efficiency of optical spectrum use

Chris Royden has joined the company as vice president of sales, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

Juniper Networks and Ericsson MPLS solution deployed to connect New Zealand's first high-capacity data and entertainment network

Robert Doucette, former Executive VP of the Global Supply Chain at Marconi, joins WaveSmith as Executive VP of Manufacturing. Sweet!

Posts eleventh consecutive quarter of profitability and adds $24M cash

Net sales of $57.5 million were up 17% from $49.3 million in the previous quarter

Results were generally in line with the guidance provided by the company on July 25, 2001

Loss per share on a cash basis improved to $0.05 -- better than the $0.16 consensus estimate from First Call

Bill Proetta, current vice president, product management, will replace Dick Barcus

Investors include CenterPoint Ventures, InterWest Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds, Scudder-Kemper Investments,and Star Ventures

New optical channel unit and optical channel regenerator transponder boost capacity and reach

Southern and Central rings go live in the UK; wins Manchester parking concession

Has appointed Tito Sharma, formerly with Coreon Networks and AT&T, as controller

Storm Telecommunications and Riverstone Networks launch world's first international MPLS-Ethernet network

Wasatch Venture Fund is the lead investor for the $3.8 million Series B equity financing round for Lytek Corp.

To incorporate IBM WebSphere infrastructure software and DB2 database software into Nortel's Symposium Contact Center solutions

California Micro Devices unveils a family of chips designed to meet the latest version of the CompactPCI bus specification

Net revenue for the third quarter of 2001 was $18.8M, compared with $41.1M for the previous quarter and $36.0M for the year-ago quarter

Revenues for the quarter of $37.6 million; gross margins improve to 64.7%; $8.7 million cash flow from operations

Pro forma net loss for the third quarter was $26.1 million, or $0.19 per diluted share

For Q3, AT&T earned $0.04 per diluted share from continuing operations, in line with the company's guidance of $0.02 to $0.05

Global Research Partner Program to reinforce innovation efforts and strengthen its ties with universities and research institutes

According to Cahners In-Stat Group, the market for DSL residential service will bottom out in late 2001

Sales for the third quarter of 2001 were $15.5 million; William R. Slakey appointed chief financial officer

Products based upon an industry spec known as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG)*-2.16 Packet Switching Backplane.

Siemens has challenged Alcatel's number one position in the European DSL market by tying its 37% share

Series B round brings the company’s total funding to $77 million

Optical Internetworking Forum has approved a signaling specification for the OIF's User Network Interface (UNI) 1.0

Announces volume shipping of its athermal 40-channel 100 GHz Chromatica mux/demux to specific customers and strategic partners

Announces the availability of high-power, singlemode, 980nm pump modules

Very short-reach OC192 transponder for optical networking equipment manufacturers

Adept will be JDS Uniphase's development partner for optical automation processes and solutions

Valued at approximately $28 million

Combination of software, support, and hardware announced to speed designs

NETeXPERT-based OSS service assurance solution provides an integrated display of network fault and performance

Closes its Series B round, bringing total raised so far to over $110 million

Centerpoint has acquired Zaffire in a private-to-private, all-stock transaction; Goldman Sachs served as financial advisor

Richard Dorey joins to manage global sales, and Ron Murphy leads global solutions and service

Acquires Vsys's softswitch technology and intellectual property, along with its team of voice telecommunications engineers

With Telus Quebec, China Railcom, and Latin American Nautilus

Reports revenues for its third quarter ended Sept. 30 of $10.3 million, compared to $4.3 million for the same period last year

Cable and Wireless to deploy Ciena's MultiWave CoreDirector intelligent optical switching system

ONI Systems provides strategic infrastructure for Williams Communications' new On-Net metro DWDM access services

Company meets revenue and beats pro forma EPS guidance; on track with restructuring program

Alcatel's key operations in China to be integrated with Shanghai Bell to spearhead growth in Asia Pacific

Management restructuring and streamlining actions include elimination of 100 to 150 jobs

Pro forma1 loss per share from continuing operations improved from a loss of 35 cents in Q3 to a loss of 27 cents in Q4

Announces Sheer MetroCentral broadband operating system

Viventures Partners, a global management company for venture capital recently closed its second fund with 638 million euros

Revenues were $37.2 million, a decrease of 73% from $138 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000

Net revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2002 ended were $7.2 million, compared with revenues of $34.8 million for Q1 2001

Diluted earnings per share of $0.59 versus $0.57 a year ago; company to reduce capital spending by about 20% in 2002

Optical Channel Monitor (OCM) provides real-time information on the performance of DWDM networks

Discloses plans for C-Port family of 5 and 10-Gbit/s network processor

10-Gbit/s trans-Atlantic IP backbone network connecting 11 cities across Europe

Appoints former Newbridge Networks president Michael Pascoe to its board of directors

MPI and Furukawa have entered a joint development agreement to develop next-generation OC192 transponders

Announces SmartPacket, the underlying packet switch technology for its Intelligent IP Optical Access system

A fully configurable, wire-speed, OC192c, stream-processing ASIC for multiprotocol edge and core routers

Incurred a gross loss of $154M for the first six months of 2001, compared with a gross profit of $87M for the same period in 2000

32Kx72 and 64Kx72 full-ternary devices from its IP co-processor family

Announce an agreement to offer a comprehensive metropolitan area network system based on free-space optic technology

Dr. Steve Sheafor, VP of NPU technology, will be delivering a technical presentation at the Network Processor Conference

Teja Technologies demonstrates interoperability with Linux for network processor software development

Intros classification evaluation system for networking equipment; announces partnership with IDT

Announces largest data-plane processor devoted to optimizing policy-based network routing

Companies will co-develop solutions based on the Xelerator family of network processors and IDT's family of IP co-processors

AmberWave's MOS strained silicon technology provides solutions for digital, wireless, and photonic applications

Unveils programmable chipsets that deliver speeds from 64 kbit/s to 100 Mbit/s; raises $5.1M in its second round of Series C funding

Announces faster version of its PayloadPlus network processors and software development environment; RAM deal with Fujitsu

Its iFlow Packet Processor supports full-duplex data rates of 20 Gbit/s

Software helps networking system designers integrate Mindspeed network processor applications with the system’s host architecture

The nP7510 network processor completes 10-Gbit/s network processor, traffic manager, and switch fabric platform

Reveals that it is developing semiconductors to increase the performance of the Internet’s backbone and metro-area networks

QX-1 Traffic Manager scales QoS features for its NP-1 Network Processor

$200 million, five-year agreement with MoneyLine for networking services; projects that it will achieve breakeven this quarter

Qwest increases stake in KPNQwest; KPNQwest to acquire Global TeleSystems

E-M-Solutions increases Sanmina's global presence in the enclosure business

Alcatel has signed an agreement with Omne Communications Ltd. to deploy a high-speed network in Scotland and northern England

Purchase of minority shares brings TyCom back into the Tyco corporate structure as a wholly owned subsidiary

Pro forma net loss for fiscal 2001 totaled $601.9M, or $2.46 per share, compared to net income of $195.5M, or $0.84, in fiscal 2000

Net revenues for Q2 2002 were $41.3 million, a decrease of 57% from the $97.0 million reported in the same period of fiscal 2001

Scion Photonics has appointed James R. Fultz president and chief executive officer

Net revenues of $61.6 million and a pro forma net loss of $0.16 per share for the third quarter of 2001; to lay off 350

UniPHY, an IP core optimized for universal physical layer signal processing at speeds between 400 MHz and 1 GHz

Reports Q3 pro forma EPS of $0.09, a decrease of 74% compared with $0.35 per share for the third quarter of 2000

Headquarters and advanced technology development center slated to open in 2002

Revenue $180.3 million; EBG $0.14 loss per share; restructuring and non-recurring charges of $312 million

Itochu Corp., the lead investor in the Series A funding, will invest $18 million in the maker of fiber-based broadband access products

Anticipates that fiscal first-quarter revenue will be in the range of $20 to $25 million; announces layoffs

Q3 revenues were $84,647,000, compared with $114,100,000 for the third quarter of 2000

Revenues from continuing operations were US$3.69 billion for Q3 2001, compared to US$6.73 billion in the same period in 2000

Alcatel to deliver Jordan Telecom's network expansion

CIR says metro core optical transport equipment market to top $2.5 billion in 2005

Revenue for the three months ended September 30 was $2,203 million, down 15 per cent from $2,600 million in the third quarter of 2000

Pro forma net loss for the third quarter of 2001 was $34.0 million or $0.13 per share

Second quarter fiscal 2002 operating loss was $2.2 million, compared to a loss of $3.1 million for the previous quarter

Q3 ata revenues exceed $1 billion for third consecutive quarter; normalized EPS of 56 cents

Pro forma net income was $3.9 million or $0.06 per diluted share, compared to $2.6 million or $0.04 for the preceding quarter

Q3 revenues of $6.72 billion; terminating Sprint ION development and restructuring various elements of the FON Group

Will present details of its IMpower family of network processing and switching solutions at next week's Network Processors Conference

Actual net loss for Extreme's first quarter was $36.0 million or $0.32 per share

Announces third-quarter net revenues of $4.5 million and a pro forma net loss of $9.7 million

A high-volume microprocessor manufacturing facility using the company's advanced 0.13 micron process

Announces the launch of its Dallas and Los Angeles metro area networks

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have crafted 2-D and 3-D modeling programs

Scientists from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have created organic transistors with a single-molecule channel length

UK telecom operator's EBITDA rises 16.9% to £16.71 million

Soliton Systems will market, sell, and support Ennovate's MPLS and IP VPN Service Creation Platform in Japan

Agilent Technologies RouterTester platform delivers industry-first comprehensive VPN testing

Norwest Venture Partners invests $25 million in Virtela Communications; startup announces suite of VPN solutions

Its gigabit optical networks are connecting personnel at Calpine Corp.'s three Houston offices at speeds up to 200 Mbit/s

Charles Matthews, General Counsel for Alcatel's Optics Group, has been appointed CEO of Alcatel UK and Ireland

Using Corvis's next-gen optical solutions, Williams Communications provisioned an OC192 circuit from New York to Washington

To enable faster development of gigabit-Ethernet switches, routers, and semiconductor prototypes

Reuben Richards joins Board; Qusion adds to development team and tech advisory board, mounts fund drive

Report projects fault and service management to grow 18 percent annually through 2004

Integrated photonics company has closed a $20 million Series B round of funding led by Enterprise Partners

Final pro forma results before other charges consistent with preliminary expectations; CFO steps down

Has implemented a reduction in workforce of approximately 16 percent

Has been awarded contracts totaling €58 million to develop Chunghwa Telecom's fixed network and services

Market for WAN routing devices will peak in 2003 at $11.1 billion and then cede revenue to switching and transition platforms

Nortel Networks is using Motorola's computing hardware and software to help power its IP-based softswitch

Williams Communications to provide OC192 network capacity to Progress Telecom

APX 1000 Universal Gateway enables V.92 and V.44 remote access, Internet call diversion, SS7 call control, VPNs, and VOIP

Has added Osama Bahgat as its Vice President of Engineering

Companies announce an amicable settlement of all outstanding legal claims against each other

To provide Archipelago, a Chicago-based electronic communications net, with optical Internet infrastructure and colocation services

Its nationwide, optically switched, mesh network spans more than 16,000 route miles and reaches 44 of the largest cities in the US

Silicon Valley Bank has issued $3.2 million in equipment financing to Vpacket Communications

Nasdaq will also delist Ariel from the Nasdaq National Market, effective at the opening of the market today

Has appointed Mike Bottini vice president of product operations

Phillip Arneson, former executive VP of Allied Signal and a director of the company, has been named President and COO

The Global Crossing IP VPN Service is designed to run over the company's global optical network backbone

Second round of private financing from Celtic House, Add Partners, and InnovationsKapital

Has finalized its recently announced acquisition of RiverDelta Networks Inc.

Technology Futures Inc. announces a new report: 'The Impacts of Competition and Technology on Local Exchange Outside Plant Assets'

R. Clark Harris replaces Kenneth E. Westrick as president and CEO

iMPLS™, the first OC192 MPLS development platform, will be available to customers in November for $40,000

Ian Jenks named Chairman of CoreOptics; Tim McGarry named Vice President of Marketing and Business Development

Has selected Unisphere Networks’ ERX Edge Router for aggregation of DSL access to the IP network

Including one-time items, Tellabs reported a loss of $49 million or 12 cents per share

Names Douglas C. Smidl, ex-ADC Telecommunications, Vice President, Worldwide Sales

Concert is going. 2,300 will be laid off. BT will take an "impairment charge" of £1.2 billion

First portion of 3rd round for metro system developer comes from mix of existing and new investors

LuxNet receives $18 million in its latest round of venture capital funding

PhotonEx raises $90 million in third round of financing, bringing total to more than $178 million

Technology enables sinlge-chip network processors capable of processing 10 Gbit/s

Emperative's CMX IP address manager enables advanced broadband services

Village Neworks partners with NeoWave, a leading provider of access solutions in Korea

Solidum ships processor; report finds classification solution delivers substantial board level savings

Reorganization of Siemens' Information and Communication Networks group gets off the ground

US LEC confirms receipt of payment from Bellsouth

Lucent appoints Bill O'Shea president of Bell Labs, succeeding Arun Netravali

Bayspec introduces compact, low-cost Optical Channel Performance Monitor (OCPM)

Yipes appoints co-inventor of Ethernet, Bob Metcalfe, to advisory board

Carrier Access appoints Bruce Wildman to exec VP post

Altera spiffs up Nios soft processor for high-bandwidth applications

Astracon and Wipro sign multi-million-dollar deal to provide service provisioning solution for new UK company

Fujitsu's FLASH600 ADX powers phone company's advanced communications services

Co-development team unveils QDRII and DDRII SRAM specifications

Calient drives EMS with TimesTen real-time data management software

Occam program focused on local loop next generation service delivery; Sonus joins alliance

Enterasys signs OEM agreement to license and distribute F5 Networks' full suite of products

Massively parallel network processor uses scores of ARC microprocessor cores

Tarifica report shows bandwidth leaves the world underwired

Tioga announces organization changes and Israeli R&D grant approval for 2001

Xelerated has successfully completed a $12 million Series B financing round with Atlas Venture

Extreme's award-winning switching systems build a new campus network

Polymer planar waveguide optical components surpass expectations in stringent reliability and environmental aging test

Carrier class multiprotocol platform features enahancements; selected by Deutsche Telekom for network expansion

Makes a £5 million operating profit, but debt totals £4.3 million on Sept 30

Family of enterprise IP routers and switches that implement IPv6 and IPv4 in hardware

Dallas startup is seeking $5 million to position itself in the integrated photonics market

Acterna is utilizing Innovatia's LivingLAB approach to develop, test, and demonstrate new Acterna technologies

Net revenues for Q3 were $201.7M; net loss was $29.7M or $0.09 per share; to build broadband network backbone for DirecTV Broadband

LGC Wireless has received $19.3 million from a group of investors led by Allegis Capital

New investors in the Israeli/American startup include Lehman Bros., ABN AMRO Capital, and Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands

OC3 and OC12 Sonet/SDH transceivers complement OC48 devices

Proprietary technology allows fiber optic cable in live natural gas distribution lines

Matt Louis, from JDS Uniphase, to be Director of Sales and Marketing for Fiber Optic Division

Technology employs an ultrafast laser to write waveguides directly into an optical medium such as glass

Office in Madrid to address Spanish and Portugese markets; Enrique Funke will serve as sales manager

Announces production volumes of the CY22xxx family of field-programmable clock generators

Passive components include a MEMS 2x2 switch and an attenuator/on-off switch hybrid

CALYnet enables carriers to deliver fast Ethernet for the price of a T1/E1

Swedish Ethernet broadband startup receives Series A financing from European Equity Partners

Uses Nortel's next-generation technology to route VOIP calls over data networks within 14 state region

Mike Unger joins iolon as tunable laser provider moves into volume production

Pro forma net loss for the third quarter of 2001 was $40.9 million or $0.28 per share

£300,000. D'oh!

Has completed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar agreement to sell products and services on its nationwide fiber optic network to TyCom

Randall R. Lay named to the position of senior vice president and chief financial officer at Metromedia Fiber Network

The Succession CS 2000-Compact softswitch employs a Motorola CPX8000 compact PCI system and Linux operating system

Charlotte’s Aranea-1 is the top performing core router tested by Miercom to date

Celestica will issue to Omni shareholders about 9.2M subordinate voting shares and pay cash consideration totaling about $475M

Kevin Conlon named president of Palomar Technologies; Gary Gist to remain chairman of the board

Dan Warmenhoven, CEO of Network Appliance, and Judith O'Brien, managing director of Incubic, have joined Nexsi's board of directors

IP Infusion has released an enhanced version of its portable network software suite, the ZebOS™ Advanced Routing Suite

HardCopy program promises a seamless migration path from the largest programmable logic devices to low-cost volume production

CMA4000i Optical Test System for long-haul backbone networks or passive optical networks

Transports 1.6-Tbit/s over 321 km unrepeatered distance using cascaded Raman amplification

Has reduced its work force by approximately 40, and the salaries of all executives will be temporarily reduced by up to 20%

TranSwitch to be a preferred supplier and a strategic partner of the Samsung Network Broadband Division

Has been awarded a $10.8 million, three-year communications services contract with the State of Indiana

No, not the country

Singl.eView version 4.0 streamlines customer management and billing needs for communication service providers

The PacketStar (PSAX) 1000 Multiservice Media Gateway multiservice switch targeted at global service providers

Has agreed to the private sale of $100 million in convertible subordinated notes due 2008 to qualified institutional buyers

Expects third quarter 2001 non-Luminent revenues to exceed $50 million

Van Wagoner Capital led the third round with Palantir Capital as the other new participating investor

Its Open Services Partner Alliance (OSPA) has added 11 new members

Largest US service provider to deploy Telica's Plexus 9000 solution to route dial-up Internet traffic

Providing Internet access and high-speed connectivity among 10 sites owned by ACTS Retirement-Life Communities

Has licensed and successfully transferred processing technology to manufacture micro-electro-mechanical systems

Accommodates 'in service' upgrades of the switch fabric to 1.28 terabits and interfaces to OC768 when needed

Variable optical attenuators are first MEMS-based VOAs to pass Telcordia qualification requirements

Paul Murphy was VP of WorldWide Wafer Manufacturing at National Semiconductor

Sigma Networks has signed a multi-year interconnection agreement with LighTrade

Strategic relationship to consolidate Shell Information Technology's global communications infrastructure

Family of time-slot interchanger chips for applications such as high-density metro access switches and carrier-class VOIP gateways

Following completion of its operational review, Marconi has appointed a new team of financial advisors

Its automated manufacturing line is complete and producing CrossWave switches

Agreement with Japan Telecom to deploy high-capacity, all-optical switch -- the Lucent WaveStar LambdaRouter

Introduces their next-generation, 10-Gbit/s, super forward error correction (SuperFEC), digital wrapper device: the MTC6131

Yankee Group believes optical technology for the metro-area network to mature in 2005

The Passport 8600 Layer 2-7 Switching Platform, a multiservice, high-capacity, carrier-class routing switch

The SSR is the industry's first stackable, scaleable, and rack-mountable OC192c router

To provide Cuda 12000 IP access switch for Callahan Associates' German cable network infrastructure

Correct's information distributed earlier today claiming intent to purchase the outstanding shares of Viasource Communications, Inc

The world’s first commercial optics-based digital signal processing technology

LT3500 integrates up to 8 variable optical attenuators per module

"Bumpless Build-Up Layer" or BBUL packaging "grows" the package around the silicon, resulting in thinner, higher-performance chips that consume less power

Customers can select the level of protection, restoration and reliability they require from a private line and pay only for what they need

Signs up as permanent chairman of the board, president and CEO at Kestrel Solutions

Deutsche Telekom has selected Siemens to deploy additional Unisphere Networks' ERX-1400 Edge Routers into its IP network

IxProfile is a real-time traffic recording, monitoring, and profiling solution for 10 Gigabit networks

Acme Packet raises $16 Million to develop plaform for interactive voice, video and multimedia applications across IP networks

C Speed names Ralph B. Ahlgren as its Senior Vice President of Engineering

New optical components company to develop and sell high-speed indium phosphide chipsets at 40, 50 Gbit/s and beyond

Gary Daichendt rejoins Cisco colleagues Judy Estrin and Bill Carrico in networking startup

Yipes ensures continuing Internet connections for stranded customers of Allied Riser Communications

Alidian adds Ethernet service intelligence to metro DWDM systems

MRV and Luminent announce exchange ratio for previously announced short-form merger

The genFlow-2X12c is a dual port OC12c traffic management co-processor

40-channel 100 GHz device is based on "volume phase grating" technology

Kestrel Solutions will not acquire Teon; Martin J. Kaplan has become Kestrel Solution's chairman, CEO, and president

Chunghwa Telecom has selected Unisphere's ERX Edge Router for expansion of its high-speed broadband ADSL network

Robots invade sewers

Delisted voluntarily after trading of its common stock was suspended on September 26; has filed recently under Chapter 11

Global Crossing and Asia Global Crossing in discussions to merge; Asia Global Crossing reaffirms Q3 guidance

Its new Training, Demonstration, and Research Laboratory will help carriers and vendors integrate new technologies into their networks

Has reached agreement with its bank group to amend its credit facility

A single-chip, high-precision thermoelectric cooler (TEC) controller for DWDM networking equipment

Company plans for a transition to volume manufacturing by the end of its fiscal third quarter of 2002

Deal with UMC marks the first time that integrated optical devices have been produced at a leading integrated circuit foundry

Has reduced its worldwide workforce by approximately 150 personnel

Qwest Communications International chairman testifies before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee

The LT210 product series, with its industry leading form factor height of 5.5mm, also achieves world class switching speed of 5ms

Movaz Networks moves to volume production of its RAY products with Flextronics manufacturing agreement

Global Crossing selects Nortel Networks to deliver global IP services

France Telecom will test the CorWave LR along an 800 km terrestrial link

Series B funding round for photonic components startup led by St. Paul Venture Capital

John E. Kahn has joined the company as its chief financial officer

Optical component supplier opens a 57,000 square-foot laser diode manufacturing plant in Vancouver, Wash.

Privately-held global network provider has agreed to acquire the US Internet backbone subsidiary of Telia AB

Announces the availability of a broad line of polarization maintaining (PM) fiber component products

Announces the availability of the RM7000B 64-bit MIPS-based processor with clock speeds up to 600 MHz

Restructuring program will result in charges of up to $1B in 2001; workforce reductions may reach 12,000; idling fiber facilities

Its Asynchronous Packet Transport technology promises to extend the intelligence of the metro core all the way to the enterprise edge

Pan-European carrier announces reduction of its workforce by 35%

Is supplying its Fiberless Optics equipment and professional services to Utfors Bredband AB of Sweden

Announces industry-leading service-level agreements for IP backbone and connectivity services extending beyond its own network

Has acquired more than 50 new IOC customers since January 2001, increasing its IOC customer base to more than 750 carriers

3,038 positions will be reduced from a worldwide workforce of 9,320 involved in undersea network and optical fiber activity

Agrees with C-MAC to divest majority of manufacturing activities related to DMS circuit-switching products

622 MHz, 9mm x 14mm, PECL voltage-controlled crystal oscillator for fiber optic infrastructure applications

Promises an efficient and scaleable way to connect mainframes, data centers, and storage networks within a metro area

Has been selected as the primary provider of DWDM technology by SBC Communications

SILVX InSight is designed to streamline the network planning process and simplify the deployment of optical networks

Demonstrates switching and locking between DWDM channels in a single microsecond

To install SanteraOne switches for Philadelphia-based NetCarrier Inc.

Introduces the Adept NanoBonder LWS laser welding system

Anticipates preliminary revenues for Q3 to be $8.3 million to $8.7 million, or a loss of $0.09 to $0.10 per share

It seems it's much flatter now

Is awarding $13.65M to 15 universities and 4 national laboratories to create the International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory

Dr. Wayne Sharfin has held key positions at Lasertron Inc. and Telephotonics Inc.

Terry Hungle named Chief Financial Officer; three product presidents named; senior management team members chosen

Frank A. Dunn, CFO, will succeed John A. Roth as president and CEO; company to reduce workforce to approximately 45,000

High-tech robots finish all-optical network, providing broadband service to 21 high-rise buildings in Albuquerque

Achieves Telcordia qualification for Mach-10™ product line

Global Internet grows 174%, says TeleGeography; connections distributed more evenly across regions

Has launched fiber optic networks in Copenhagen and The Hague

Metromedia Fiber Network successfully completes $611 million financing package; expects to be EBITDA positive in 2002

New advisory board members include Jean-Jacques Damlamian of France Telecom, John Hart of 3Com, Nobuo Kamata of Soliton Systems

Tts NexLev parallel board-to-board connector has met requirements of Telcordia GR-1217-CORE qualification

0.18 micron Silicon Germanium:Carbon technology for wireless and optical communication products

Extends the Cisco 12000 Series platform to the edge; goes after metro market with Cisco 10720 Internet Router

To sell Clarify assets to Amdocs Ltd. for $200 million; unloads controlling interest in Matra Nortel Communications Distribution SA

Investors in optical networking systems startup include Skypoint Capital, VenGrowth, and Katsura

China Telecom selects Foundry Networks' high-performance switching solutions for Shanghai Internet data centers

The Optical Internetworking Forum has elected a new board of directors for 2001-2002

Expects its third-quarter revenue to be approximately $4.5 million, with a pro forma loss per share estimated to be ($0.07) to ($0.09)

Seeking EBITDA positive status in the first half of 2002, it will reduce its workforce by about 8 percent of its total employee base

Lumenon's loss for the fiscal fourth quarter ending June 30, 2001, totaled CDN$15.2M (US$10.0M), or CDN$0.39 (US$0.26) per share

LC/APC fiber connectors and adapters for small form-factor applications

Offers its customers the benefits of multiprotocol label switching in a corporate virtual private network

According to ElectroniCast, global consumption of semiconductor optical amplifiers will expand to $260 million by 2005

TADMVC2G5 is an add-drop multiplexer system-on-a-chip

The ME7750A, a 43.5-Gbit/s BERT system for evaluating 40-Gbit/s transmission systems

Targets global and national customers in reorganization of business markets group; engineering & marketing agreement signed with Calpoint

Single-chip, multichannel, multifunction solution aggregates 12 DS3/E3/STS-1 to STS-12/STM-4

Foundry Networks and HP offer North American service providers bundled network usage management solution

As if Paroli 1 weren't exciting enough

Introduces a next-generation 13-Gbit/s limiting modulator driver

Catharine A. Trebnick has been hired as Senior Vice President of Marketing

Adds high-density POP router and scaleable entry-level customer platform

Fujitsu Microelectronics America formed; to focus on design, marketing, and support of semiconductors and other electronic devices

Introduces new optical components and network intelligence solutions at the European Conference on Optical Communication

100 mW and 200 mW pump lasers for 980 nm erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) systems to be used in metro optical networks

A.k.a. the "Knee in the Curve": home networking market to reach $9.2 billion by 2006

'LightXpander' technology delivers high capacity, flexibility, and intelligence to broadband access networks

The Titan 19244, the world's first single-chip 40-gig Quad STS-192 framer and pointer processor

Announces the release of its Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) demodulator

Announces a scaleable optical subsystem targeted for use in the long-haul market

Launches new lasers for 2.5-, 10-, and 40-Gbit/s WDM systems

Irish startup unveils transmitter sources and pump laser products

Announces three new customers and interoperability with all four RBOC networks

Unveils 1060HP select cut-off singlemode fiber at ECOC 2001; opens 50,000 square-foot world headquarters in East Granby, Conn.

Working samples of 3.125-Gbit/s quad-channel HOTLink III transceivers targeted at InfiniBand and 10-gig Ethernet applications

Leads the broadband aggregation equipment market, according to three leading industry research firms; wins Belgian deployment contract

Taiwan Semiconductor becomes the first pure-play foundry to offer silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology

TrueLock wavelength locker is a solution for stabilizing transmitted wavelengths for tunable and fixed lasers used in DWDM applications

Thin-film filter-based mux/demux; 8-channel driver chip; single-channel logarithmic optical feedback amplifier; Siemens contract win

Mini 980 Coupler Fiber, LC Angled Polished Connector, two new erbium-doped fibers, new dispersion compensation modules, others

[email protected] has agreed to sell its broadband Internet access business to AT&T for $307 million; to file for relief under Chapter 11

New technology delivers Sonet-like, telco-class network availability to IP/Ethernet-based metropolitan area networks

Agere, Agilent, Alcatel, Ericsson, ExceLight, JDSU, Mitsubishi, NEC, OpNext announce a multisource agreement for 40-Gbit/s transponders

Integrated components, semiconductor optical amplifier, and PON devices are among the new products

OMM32X32 module operates over the full wavelength range of 1290nm to 1610nm

Announces ultra-fast, highly repeatable, tunable laser source specifically designed for testing passive fiber optic components

Chris Simpson will be responsible for Avici's worldwide sales, marketing, and services efforts

Company has met all covenant requirements under its bank credit facility and publicly traded bonds for Q3 2001

20-Gbit/s Ultra-High Bandwidth (UHB) Intensity Modulator added to Mach-10™ product line

Xenpak multisource agreement (MSA) group has completed work on Revision 2.0 of its technical specs for 10-gig Ethernet transceivers

Jürgen Hansjosten named Chief Sales Officer

S176 Series of Core-Aligning Fusion Splicers is being unveiled and demonstrated by Furukawa Electric Europe

Steve Turley was Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, with Nortel's High Performance Optical Component Solutions group

Subsystem designed to deliver 10-gig Ethernet and OC192 Sonet/SDH on a single line card; CMOS chipset for 10-Gbit/s applications

Instruments give enough optical bandwidth to accurately characterize components operating at bit rates up to 160 Gb/s

Plug in modules for the 86100A Infiniium DCA (digital communications analyzer), and two optical spectrum analyzers

The industry’s fastest and lowest power complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) octal serializer/deserializer (SerDes) transceiver

WSF-32000 is a versatile and compact all-optical wavelength selective switch

A transponder that meet the 300-pin multisource agreement, and a "postage stamp" photoreceiver

Releases version 2 of its Photonic Foundation Library software, and an inspection system for printed circuit boards

Movaz will use Bandwidth9's tunable laser in its network equipment

Companies show Vitesse's 10 Gbit/s driver working with Cyoptics' modulator

MultiPort technology makes double use of each DWDM filter, doubling the density of DWDM components

Companies demonstrate 40 channel power monitor formed from WaveSplitter's AWG and Infineon's monitor

Kamelian unveils the industry's first variable gain optical linear amplifier that allows multi-wavelength amplification

Joint product controls power levels in multiple channels of DWDM systems