Modulight launches uncooled 1310nm DFB laser, designed for Sonet OC3 to OC48, SDH STM-1 to STM-16, GigE and FC applications

Bankruptcy Court Judge approves MCI's Plan of Reorganization, setting the stage for its emergence from Chapter 11

Alpine Research Optics (ARO) debuts a new series of high-performance, high-damage-threshold polarizers for solid state lasers

Koncent Communication has been issued a US patent for its four-port bidirectional circulator for optical communication systems

SMC Networks debuts the TigerSwitch 10/100 Standalone L3 24-port Managed Switch

Fiber-to-the-Home Council urges Congress to maintain the mandatory funding level for broadband loans provided in last year's Farm Bill

European incumbent service provider capex spending down 12% to €33.3B, revenue up 2% in 2003

F5 Networks makes public offering of 4.5M shares of common stock

BlazePhotonics offers a new 800nm hollow-core photonic crystal fiber

SBG Labs buys DigiLens’ optical component patents and trademarks at an open bid foreclosure sale held by a syndicate of DigiLens' lenders

BFi Optilas offers Oluma's Multimode Integrated Tap Sensor, a compact, non-invasive MM power monitor with unmatched performance

Revenues were $467K, up from $143K in last year's Q3, for a net loss of $686K ($0.08/share), up from a loss of $5.4M ($0.68/share) in 3Q02

LightConnect debuts a MEMS-based Dynamic Channel Equalizer, enabling full-wavelength tunability for DWDM at static OADM prices

Tiscali's IP-Flow service creates a 'virtual' presence at the London Internet Exchange (LINX) for service providers and carriers w5rldwide

Lucent completes deployment of 450MHz CDMA2000 1X network for Moscow Cellular Communications

Sprint to deliver the backbone for an extensive VPN, managed internally by Galaxy Scientific, connecting its offices nationwide

Revenue were $31.6M, up 17% from last year's Q4, for net income of $1.4M ($0.05/share), up from a loss of $423K ($0.02/share) last year

Corrigent Systems opens sales and support office in Tokyo, targeting demand for packet-ADM transport solutions for metro networks

Sales were SEK28.0B, down 16% from last year's Q3, for a net loss of SEK3.9B (SEK0.25/share), down from a loss of SEK5.0B

Lighting additional 1,200-mile all-optical route along the eastern coast of Florida extends all-optical core from Atlanta to Miami

Zhone Technologies and HeliOss Communications settle mutual claims; Zhone restates quarter ended Sept. 30, 2003, increasing net loss

NEC targets growth by expanding globally and supporting the advent of the ubiquitous networked society

Companies team to deliver SonicWall's future platforms using Cavium’s highly programmable next-generation System on a Chip (SoC) processors

Intense wins an £80,000 research contract from BAE Systems for the new Defence Technology Centre on Electromagnetic Remote Sensing

Net sales were €3.0B, down from €3.5B in last year's Q3, for a net loss of €284M (€0.23/share), down from a loss of €1.4B (€1.13/share)

Nissho Electronics enters into an agreement relationship with Xtellus to distribute its dynamic optical components in Japan

Revenues were €23.0M, up from €22.0M in 3Q02, for net income of €1.0M (€0.03/share), up from a net loss of €0.1M (€0.00/share) last year

UK retail chains NEXT selects Fibernet to deploy a national 'any-to-any' managed MPLS IP VPN

BellSouth expands comprehensive voice portfolio, offering packaged solutions with VOIP capabilities for small and medium businesses

Net.com parters with Atreus Systems to offer QOS-enabled IP service delivery systems to meet the requirements of DSL Forum's TR59 spec

Revenues were a record $71.6M, up 74.4% on 4Q02, for net income of $7.1M ($0.09/share), up from a loss of $925,000 ($0.01/share)

Nortel and BellSouth to provide SMBs and and branch offices with flexible, cost-effective voice and data convergence options

New technical projects at the OIF's quarterly meeting address carrier requirements and integratable tunable laser assembly

Revenues were $23.2M, down from $24.9M in 4Q02, for net loss of $32.2M ($0.35/share), down from a loss of $149.4M ($1.69/share)

CTBC to deploy Juniper's E-series routing platform in its next-gen NetSuper network, to deliver advanced IP-based broadband services

K2 Optronics outsources the manufacture of its EC-48 external cavity lasers (ECL) to Fabrinet

OFS charges patent infringement, seeks damages and injunction to stop the sale of Alcatel's TeraLight Metro and TeraLight Ultra fibers

Telefonica selects Juniper's E-, M- and T-series routing platforms for next-gen backbone network to enable VOIP services in Brazil

Wanforce to provide free hardware and installation for all Sprint, MCI, Qwest, Savvis, and New Edge voice and data service orders

T-Systems selects Lucent Technologies to expand capacity of its Telekom Global Net optical backbone in North America

Harmonic prices public offering of 9M shares of common stock at $7.40 per share, for a total price of $66.6M

Revenues were $7.7M, up from $6.7M in last year's Q3, for a net loss of $4.4M ($0.07/share), down from a loss of $56.5M ($0.74/share)

In the first half of 2003, net sales rose 3%, to ¥4.0T (US$36.4B), for net income of ¥5.3B (US$49M), 5% lower than in 1H02

Molex reaches tentative agreement to buy the assets and business of Connecteurs Cinch and its subsidiaries from the Snecma Group

New research says 90% of businesses see information theft as a major threat, but only 45% have formal security policies in place

Revenue were a record $13.4M, up from $11.1M in last year's Q2, for record EPS of $0.07, up from $0.03 in 2Q03

Revenues were $3.7M, up a bit from $3.3M in last year's Q3, for a net loss of $2.3M ($0.40/share), down from a loss of $8.1M ($1.50/share)

New 8-channel CWDM card for its FSP 2000 system cuts network costs with next-gen universal transponder design and SFP transceivers

Sycamore Networks successfully demonstrates GMPLS multi-vendor interoperability in Isocore's IP/Optical Integration demonstration

IDC says NetScreen gained 6.9% factory revenue market share from 2Q02 to 2Q03, reaching 16%, while its competitors' shares declined

Revenues were $33.3M, up 33% from last year's Q4, for net income of $1.8M ($0.02/share), up from a net loss of $17.7M ($0.24/share)

Ixia's leadership in IPv6 performance and conformance testing demonstrated at the Moonv6 interoperability event

The City of Homestead begins construction of redundant fiber optic ring to create largest metropolitan Intranet in Florida

Net.com completes the third amendment to its licensing agreement for the use of Cisco's IOS in its platforms, establishing new pricing

Revenues were $712M, down 2.6% from 3Q02, with growth in network services offset by declines in integration services and other services

France Telecom's revenues amounted to €11.65B, a 2.7% decrease from 3Q02; the other numbers are probably in there somewhere

GX Networks acquires Pipex Internet for approximately £55M, raising about £27.7M by way of an institutional placing

AMCC completes its first step into the storage networking world, doesn't say much else

Global manufacturer of electronic components selects Sprint to connect US, Japanese operations with voice-over-IP services

Bright Telecommunications brings 'triple-play' voice, video, and data services to Western Australia residents, using Alloptic solution

Kline says the worst is past for chips made of materials such as gallium arsenide, indium phosphide, and silicon germanium

A new report from RHK says products based on the new AdvancedTCA series of specifications will be worth $3.7B in 2007

Participants in employee stock options plans sue over Cisco's failure to recommend hedging strategies to protect their investments

Global long-haul optical equipment market to grow to $3.2B by 2008 as carriers begin to recover from the capacity glut, says Probe Group

Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) throws party in Vancouver to celebrate its fifth anniversary and talk about the future

Quarry Technologies joins the Isocore Internetworking Lab to validate its iQ-series products with leading IP and MPLS networking equipment

Financial services firms select Cisco IP communications system to drive operational efficiency and enhance productivity

Small Midwestern city is big on bandwidth with new OC48 optical Ethernet fiber ring and an OC12 sub-ring at W.K. Kellogg Airport

EMC, Nortel Networks unveil new joint business continuity services to help enterprises make more efficient use of optical MANs, WANs

Motorola has produced the world's first 4-megabit magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) chip, now sampling with customers

Revenues were $504M, up 3% from a year ago, for earnings of $11M ($0.01/share), up from a loss of $885M for its first profit since IPO

Jointly developed IP VPN solution delivers software integration and the ability to deliver ATM services over an IP/MPLS core network

Revenues were £23.1M (US$37.1M), up 204% from last year's Q3, for a net loss of £29.2M (US$47.0M), or £0.14 (US$0.23) per share

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recommends its clients vote in favor of Redback's proposed out-of-court financial restructuring

Packet Design signs an agreement naming Toyo Corp. of Tokyo as the exclusive distributor of its products in Japan

Revenues were $17.2B, up 1% from last year's Q3, for earnings of $1.8B ($0.64/share), down from last year's earnings of $4.4B

Equant completes the first phase of implementation for a global IP VPN solution and corporate mail system for Landis+Gyr in 26 countries

Isocore announces the opening of the MPLS 2003 International Conference in Washington, DC, featuring Isocore's Internetworking Lab

Time Warner Telecom wins a five-year contract to deliver local metro Ethernet data services to HCA/HealthONE in Denver

Canoga Perkins announces the long-range, fully managed EdgeAccess L351 10/100BaseT Ethernet Service Unit (ESU)

IP Unity gets a strategic investment from Siemens Venture Capital to enable new product delivery and support for market expansion

Tellabs proves IP/MPLS data expertise at the Isocore Internetworking Lab's IP-optical integration test

Glimmerglass announces system 300E Layer 1 fiber switch for high-performance enterprise applications

Offers up a pack of zero coupon convertible notes due 2010

Accelerant Networks debuts the world's highest-performance, lowest-power SerDes device for backplane applications

Startup emerges from stealth mode touting 'microcommunications processors,' firing photon torpedoes at Starship Enterprise

PMC-Sierra adds 1-Gigahertz, single-CPU, 64-bit, MIPS-based microprocessors with multiple I/O interfaces to RM9000 family

Fujitsu selects Wintegra's WinPath Access Packet Processor to perform network processor functions in its GeoStream Access Gateway MSP

QLogic has chosen the Intel TXN17209 Multi-Mode XPAK Optical Transceiver to provide 10-Gbit/s connectivity for its SANbox 5200

JNI settles shareholder litigation opposing merger with Applied Micro Circuits Corp.; merger still subject to stockholder approval

Mangrove Systems uses NComm's Telecommunications Management Software suite of wide-area network (WAN) interface solutions

Neoteris announces the 1,000th revenue shipment of its Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE) appliance, for which it has over 600 customers

Italtel appoints Mauro Righetti, most recently the founder of Smart Venture Partners, as general manager and member of the board

Juniper Networks calls for partial redemption of $400M of its 4.75% convertible subordinated notes due March 15, 2007

Sales were $63.1M, down 13% from last year's Q3, for a net loss of $2.1M ($0.07/share), exactly the same as in 3Q02

Patrick Henry cries, 'Give me a job as president and CEO of Entropic Communications, or give me death!' Fortunately, they hire him

Verizon to deploy the Lucent Metropolis DMX and LambdaUnite MultiService Switch to help evolve its next-gen Sonet network

CommScope to acquire Avaya's Connectivity Solutions (ACS) business for approximately $263M in cash and securities

Cavium Networks and MontaVista Software announce a combined solution that offers 2-3x faster IPsec VPN performance on Intel IXP4XX NPUs

Ciena adds Escon multiplexing to its Online Edge platform for remote connectivity in SANs, as part of its LightWorks services strategy

Koncent announces new CATV/metro access solution that operates over a temperature range of -40 to 85 degrees Celcius

Interactive Enterprise completes interoperability of its PacketCable Call Management Server interface with Cedar Point's Safari C3 for VOIP

433 service provider and enterprise employees speak out on who they recognize and who they perceive as market leaders among 160 vendors

Net.com to supply the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with its Promina and Scream bandwidth management platforms

Revenues were $87.4M, down from $100.6M in 1Q03, but net income of $2.6M ($0.02/share) was up sharply from a loss of $4.0M ($0.04/share)

Alcatel intends to sell its manufacturing facilities in Saintes and Coutances, ditching the approximately 520 employees who work there

Si-Light announces silicon LEDs -- lowest cost, better performance, and CMOS compatibility enable wide range of new applications

Sales were $584.4M, up 44% sequentially and 120% year-over-year, for income of $59.1M ($0.46/share), up from $30.8M ($0.27/share) in 3Q02

Reports losses of $36M on revenues of $42.8M, compared with losses of $95M on revenues of $39.7M a year ago

Preliminary results show net earnings of $179M ($0.04/share) on revenues of $2.27B; statements for past 14 quarters to be restated

Losses continue at $28.1M, or 2 cents per share, while revenues hit $147M versus $193M a year ago

Revenues of $78.8M beats guidance, but losses continue at 4 cents per share; optoelectronics grows 7.6%

AMCC reports revenues of $25.2M and losses of $22.9M, compared with revenues of $30.2M and losses of $72.4M a year ago

Distributel selects Tekelec's SanteraOne switches for local and long-distance switching in Canada

Alcatel to enable Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) for attendees at MPLS 2003 Conference and Exhibition in Washington

Force10 Networks hires Bahman Sohrabi as VP of global services

Ciena announces several new customers and key channel partners through its Ottawa-based Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG)

Metrowerks CodeWarrior tool suite products to support entire line of security-enhanced Motorola PowerQUICC processors

EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering intros 10+ Gbit/s Multi-Rate EPX6100 Transceiver with deep channelization and mixed payload concatenations

Net sales were $56.8M, up from $44.6M in 1Q03, for net income of $4.8M ($0.13/share), up from a net loss of $7.3M ($0.20/share)

Revenues were $3M, down from $3.1M in 3Q02, for a net loss of $1.93M ($0.05/share), down from a loss of $5.32M ($0.15/share) last year

Revenues were a better-than-expected $429M, up 32% from last year, for net income of $83M ($0.49/share), up from $52M ($0.33/share)

Ericsson and 3SAE have created an automated software solution for splicing large fibers in the Ericsson FSU 995 series fusion splicer

Internetworking Lab completes IP-optical integration technology validation featuring IP services over an intelligent optical core

Members have approved an agreement defining security methods for management interfaces to Network Elements (NEs)

To help Department of Defense evaluate next-gen IPv6 technology for support of network-centric military operations

Net loss for the third quarter was $498 million versus net income of $519 million for the same period last year

Falling prices and a lack of growth opportunities will force Swisscom to further improve efficiency and reduce headcounts in 2004

GDA Technologies releases its Reference Design Kit for the Intel IXP2400 and Intel IXP2800 network processors

Ixia test platform enables first successful transcontinental test from CERN in Geneva to Carleton University in Ottawa

Redback Networks announces credit facility commitment letter and extension from Nasdaq to comply with minimum bid price requirement

6 per cent sequential sales increase to £389M (1Q04: £367M); maintaining cautious view on potential volatility in near-term market

Switch-fabric vendor shows off an AdvancedTCA system based around a 160-Gbit/s switching card

Xelerated's network processor and Teradiant's traffic manager team up for metro Ethernet applications

Embedded software provider adds Hifn support to its BroadWay Integrated Services Software VPN

Records losses of $5.8M, or 53 cents per share, on revenues of $6.2M

Revenues of $772M exceed the company's guidance; net income clocks in at $33M, or 2 cents per share

Revenues climb 21 percent to $7.2M, while losses clock in at $2.3M, or 2 cents per share

Foundry's revenues are up 33% to $101.7 Million, and it hits record gross margins of 67%

Revenues slightly up at $3.4M; losses slightly down at $3.4M

Components supplier picks up a transponder startup for $250,000 in cash

LeCroy adds the fastest serial data pattern trigger in the oscilloscope industry to its series of Serial Data Analyzers (SDA)

DenseLight Semiconductors tosses its hat the PON component ring

ITWorx ipgrades its free NetCelera Scout WAN monitoring software for network administrators

Company reports first profitable quarter since March 2000

Verizon Online offers Network Associates' McAfee Online Security Services to its business broadband users

Offers cheap ATM and Frame Relay services via uncontended DSL lines in the UK, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway

Sprint wins a three-year deal to provide IP VPN services nationwide to support the FBI's Digital Collection System Network (DCSNet)

Consolidated revenues were $5.7B, up 5.4% from $5.4B in 3Q02, for net income of $936M ($0.51/share), up from $640M ($0.34/share) last year

Revenues increase to $10.5M, up 44% from $7.3M last year, but it still posts a net loss of $9.1M, or $0.75 per share

Sandia National Labs plans to hook the BigIron MG8 switch to the Red Storm supercomputer

Hires Roger Barnes, formerly of Solid Information Technology and Cylink, as executive vice president and chief financial officer

RBOC and 3Com veteran Jerry Jalaba joins the company as senior vice president of worldwide sales

Losses of $8.2M on revenues of $4M, compared with losses of $9M on revenues of $5.2M a year ago

Earnings and net income rose, but international carrier cuts affected results

Time Warner Telecom has won a $2.15M contract for 40,000 lines of voice on three bases

Saudi Aramco Oil selects Alcatel’s multiprotocol platform to power growth of IP traffic

Seminole County, Florida, adopts ADVA gear through Siemens

Access provider deploys AFC PON plug-in with integrated voice gateway

C-COR has a corner on reselling Alloptic PONs in FTTP solutions in certain markets worldwide

Boasts more SDL growth, subscriber gains in wireless and long distance, plus access progress

An audit uncovered errors resulting in $125M in misreported charges

Search-engine startup announces compatibility with Infineon specialty DRAMs and a demo based on a Xilinx FPGA

The Polish Border Guard creates Poland's largest IP telephony network using Cisco technology along its 3,449km state border

Lucent enables T-Com customers to connect corporate LANs across Germany using an Ethernet over optical solution

Belgium's Ideatel selects ADC's Cuda CMTS and FastFlow Broadband Provisioning Manager (BPM) for the regions of Mons and the Center

X11 integrates 10-Gbit/s MACs with a XAUI interface to target midrange enterprise and low-end metro Ethernet designs

Anritsu debuts an optical to electrical (O/E) calibration module that transforms vector network analyzers into lightwave component analyzers

IP Infusion's ZebOS routing software put to the test in the UNH-IOL's Moonv6 IPv6 interoperability and application demonstration event

Integrated security engine added to Motorola's high-performance PowerQUICC III processor family to accelerate security throughput

Key products pass standards conformance and interoperabilty tests conducted by BTexact

Carlyle leads investment in merchant IP software company

Lucent Technologies appoints Ronald A. Williams, president of Aetna, to its board of directors

Company claims its firewall/VPN accelerator can perform even during a distributed denial of service attack

Encore Networks and Future Visions align to offer broadband IP+legacy VPN solutions over satellite networks

New Edge Networks is offering Cable & Wireless customers a safe haven and incentives to avoid a proposed service cutoff in December

The Web optimization startup has developed a new programmable environment to accelerate applications

Bell Canada uses Lucent's Stinger Compact Remote to expand its Sympatico High Speed Internet service to a broader base of customers

Romanian carrier Adisam agrees to use Network Electronics' Flashlink CWDM system

Agilent's new software enables customization of its Infiniium oscilloscopes, on-site laboratory analysis of analog and mixed signals

Agilent Technologies' new IPv6 routing test equipment successfully validates emerging protocol at Moonv6 multi-vendor test event

OEwaves secures $6M in Series C funding, including investment from Agilent Technologies' venture unit; two join OEwaves' board

European SSL VPN market leader PortWise secures €8M in Series B funding, led by new investor Cazenove Private Equity

2Wire acquires digital media specialist Sugar Media to accelerate delivery of voice, data, and entertainment services over DSL

Peribit Networks secures $10M in its fourth round of financing, led by WK Technology Fund, bringing the total raised to $42M

IDT offers monolithic NSEs in 18-Mbit/s and 9-Mbit/s configurations with dual Network Processor Forum (NPF) Look Aside interfaces

Wintegra launches new control plane code and access packet processors, creating a total DSLAM solution of software and silicon

Quellan announces the first Gigabit noise canceller, cancelling unwanted crosstalk noise in a multi-Gigabit backplane

Cypress Semiconductor expands its portfolio of search-system solutions with NPU-based and algorithmic NSEs

Mindspeed announces ZipWire, the industry's first multi-mode, voice-pair gain SHDSL transceiver with improved line utilization

BAE Systems to use StarGen's StarFabric as the backplane interconnect solution for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter electronic warfare systems

TeraChip and Teradiant to demonstrate fully integrated traffic manager and switch fabric technology for 40-Gbit/s line cards

MetaSwitch and Wave7 Optics create a joint solution to provide superior voice-over-packet services in FTTP deployments

Shipments for Ikanos' SmartLeap VDSL-DMT chipsets have increased more than 200% since DMT was named the standard of choice for VDSL

The Technology and Life Sciences Division of Comerica Bank provides Alacritech with a $3M revolving line of credit

Xelerated offers two DRAM-based search engines, enabling high-density line cards and service cards with large IPv4/IPv6 forwarding tables

Packet Design adds Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing analysis to Route Explorer, allowing users to view the entire IP network at once

NetScreen's new Deep Inspection firewall and Security Manager 2004 to provide advanced security for complex application-level attacks

Revenues were $106.3M, up from $103.6M in last year's Q3, for earnings of $0.23 per share, down from $0.25 in 3Q02

Lucent Technologies wins contracts to expand Personal Handyphone System networks for China Telecom in Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Quanzhou

Juniper Networks appoints Robert M. Calderoni, chairman and CEO of Ariba, to its board of directors

Foundry NetIron routers contribute to Moonv6, a collaborative project to build and demonstrate the largest-ever IPv6 network in the US

AMCC unveils the Packet Routing Switch (PRS) 80G chipset, enabling system services in packet-over-Sonet and Ethernet applications

Equant wins a three-year, $2.6M contract renewal with Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ('K' Line) for MPLS-based IP VPN network in nine countries

D&E Communications picks Coriolis's OptiFlow platform to deliver economical Ethernet service solution to Lancaster General Hospital

Bay Microsystems announces OC192/OC48 programmable classification processor; delivers solution to interop with AMCC's new switch fabric

For about the third time, MCI extends the deadline for its tender offer for all outstanding Digex shares; now expires October 31

Level 3 Communications leverages its softswitch platform for a new remote access service for US businesses, called 'eRAS'

More than 300 members of the Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift) in Europe have picked Colt for IP VPNs

Sprint has begun routing traffic on three additional MAN rings in the San Francisco Bay area, adding to the two existing rings

More than 280 members of the Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift) have picked AT&T for global VPN services

Not Indiana Jones, but rather Alan Earhart, who has been named an independent member of the board and audit committee chairperson

Xponent Photonics closes Series C with $18M from El Dorado Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, and Walden International

China's Comcore Technologies announces 980nm WDMs with ultra-wideband and ultra-low insertion loss

Larscom's Orion 7400 Ethernet over Sonet (EoS) optical edge access device begins customer trials

Equant to deliver an MPLS-based IP VPN network and related security management services to European 'bathroom solution supplier' Sanitec

Coming out of Chapter 11, Acterna names new board, consisting of Todd Arden, Alain Couder, James Gaffney, Edward Horowitz, and John Peeler

Qwest has completed the restatement of its 2001 and 2000 financials and has filed a 10-K with the SEC

Heavy Reading report analyzes the convergence strategies and ability to deliver of the six leading equipment vendors

VideoTele.com introduces its M2-10 line of encoders and decoders for delivering local video content; announces first customer

Net sales were $47.3M, up from $37.0M in 3Q02, for net loss of $7.5M ($0.12/share); proposes public offering of 7.5M shares of common stock

Revenues were $21.6M, up 28.3% from last year's Q3, for net income of $2.4M ($0.04/share), up from $1.2M ($0.02/share) for 3Q02

MRV Communications will raise about $5M through the sale of 1,667,000 newly issued shares of common stock to institutional investors

Revenues were $46.6M, up 1% from $46.2M in 2Q03, for a net loss of $18.9M ($0.15/share), down from a loss of $11.9M ($0.10/share)

Revenues were $425.6M, up 46.8% from $290.0M in 3Q02, for net loss of $6.3M ($0.02/share), up from a loss of $183.3M ($0.68/share) in 3Q02

Revenues climb slightly to $63M, while GAAP net income hits $3.2M, or 2 cents per share

VSK Photonics debuts a line of receiver optical sub-assemblies (ROSAs) for 10-Gbit/s fiber optic communication systems

Telkonet appoints David Powell, former SVP of Tellabs' Network Enhancing Technologies Solutions division, as chief operating officer

Shareholders approve StockerYale's reverse stock split in order to remain in compliance with Nasdaq's minimum bid price

VPN and security product and service spending in Europe to jump 69% between 2003 and 2007, from $10.7B to $18.1B, says Infonetics

BinOptics names Harvey Spreckman, cofounder of Xoptix and Tsunami Optics, as vice president of sales

QoSmetrix launches test solution for wireless LAN and agent-based technology allowing remote end-to-end troubleshooting of IP networks

Revenues were $216.6M, up 6% last year's Q3, for net income of $17.3M ($0.12/share), up from a loss of $55.1M ($0.45/share) in 3Q02

The General Services Administration's Agency Suspension and Debarment Official has decided not to propose debarment for Sprint

Reliance Gateway Net, a subsidiary of Reliance Infocomm, to buy 100% of FLAG's shares at $95.61 apiece (a 50% premium), or $207M in all

The FCC gives SBC the go-ahead to offer long-distance services in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin

Revenues were $21.5B, up 9% from $19.8 in last year's Q3, for earnings of $1.02 per share, up 3% from last year's $0.99 per share

Equant moves its Reston, Va., office to Dulles Corner in Herndon, Va.

Revenues were $16.2M, down 14.5% from last year, for a net loss of $4.4M ($0.11/share), down from a loss of $35.3M in 2Q03 ($0.89/share)

Revenues were $22.2M, up 8% sequentially from $20.5M in Q2, for a loss of $1.9M ($0.12/share), down from $6.5M ($0.44/share) in Q2

HighWave Optical Technologies reports Q2 revenue of €0.95M, up 18% sequentially

Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts enlists Equant to provide an IP VPN connecting 60 sites in more than 17 countries around the world

Lantern Communications demos the industry's lowest-priced 10-Gigabit Ethernet Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) system at USTA Telecom '03

Lenslet demos EnLight, the world's first commercial optical digital signal processor (DSP), at the Milcom exhibition in Boston

Radcom's convergence technology analysis and simulation tools measure network performance for multi-vendor SIPop! demonstration

Sorrento Networks elects James Donald Herzog and Tom Schilling to its board of directors, bringing its total number of directors to seven

Inkra Networks boosts its Virtual Service Switch (VSS) system software, enhancing security risk analysis, IDP and VPN performance

Company reports a win with NATO and updates its IOS license with Cisco

Net revenue for the third quarter of 2003 was $27.4 million, compared with $17.4 million for the third quarter of 2002

Total revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2004 was $31.9 million, compared to $28.1 million for the same period last year

MSPP vendors helping service providers make metro Ethernet a reality, reports In-Stat/MDR

Small Form Factor (SFF) and Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) singlemode transceiver product family of 1310nm and 1550nm components

New [email protected] appliances address Internet security requirements of small businesses with three to 75 concurrent network users

New dispersion analyzer from Luciol Instruments is the first field test, portable, single unit to measure both PMD and CD

Unveils long-wavelength (1310nm and 1550nm) versions of its transceivers, using Fabry-Perot and DFB lasers

Force10 E-Series switch/routers have been verified at line-rate 10-Gig Ethernet throughput by Ixia

PacketFront announces alliance with one of Japan’s largest systems integrators, Soliton

Infranet Initiative describes a public network that combines the ubiquity of the Internet with the security of a private network

Third-quarter 2003 revenues rose 5% to $245 million from $234 million in the second quarter

RapidClear settlement service allows members to collect receivable payments within as little as two business days

ElectroniCast says filter-based devices market to increase from an estimated $580,000 in 1999 to $30 million in 2005

TekVizion provides integration and interoperability services in the development of Sun’s iForce solution for simplifying service delivery

New line of Gigabit Ethernet switch chips feature lots of ports and built-in traffic classification for QoS

Loytec Electronics and NEC jointly develop a high-performance, low-cost micro controller for networked devices in building automation

ITXC and Lanka Bell sign an agreement for bilateral exchange of international voice traffic to and from Sri Lanka over ITXC.net

Revenues up 20 percent year-over-year to $7.8B, while net income jumps to $1.7B, or 25 cents per share

Agere Systems' serializer/deserializer (SerDes) core delivers 1- through 10-Gbit/s performance on one chip for storage area networking

Alcatel delivers a new software analysis tool enabling enterprises to evaluate IP telephony migration

Transmode Systems closes $10M financing round, led by Pod Holding

Telehouse America utilizes FiberNet Telecom Group to provide Ethernet service to the New York International Internet Exchange (NYIIX)

AT&T to provide a seamless global IP VPN that will connect the 242 Associated Press (AP) bureaus worldwide, in a $2M, three-year deal

MCI names Nancy Higgins, former VP of ethics and business conduct at Lockheed Martin, as chief ethics officer; top execs take ethics pledge

Class action lawsuit alleges that Check Point failed to disclose in financial reports that demand for its products was declining

Yankee Group report on IP VPN return on investment (ROI) profiles Virtela solution, finding $4.5M in savings over Frame Relay network

CommVerge awarded contract by Hanaro Telecom for the purchase, integration, and support of Force 10’s E-Series switch/routers

Coventor intros a conversion program to help former IntelliSense customers upgrade to CoventorWare MEMS development software

BroadLight appoints of Andrew M. Vought as company CEO and Anthony T. Maher as chairman of the board

Zhone refigures its earnings for 2002 and the first half of 2003, reflecting higher values for stock-based compensation

Swiss VCSEL manufacturer gets its ISO 9001:2000 certification

Chip company boasts of having shipped 100,000 ports of VDSL to North America

The People's Republic of China has announced Coventor as its preferred MEMS software vendor

Expands its network processor software suite to include Broadcom's line of MIPS-based chips

Latest TSP devices act as traffic managers or Layer 2 network processors, targeting OC3 to OC48

Iometrix validates exemplary performance and reliability of Cisco ONS 15454 and ONS 15600 optical platforms under severe testing conditions

Motorola and Movaz announce partnership to optimize the transport of multiservice wavelengths in metro and regional optical networks

Movidis teams with Lantern Communications and PrismIQ to help telcos roll out video-on-demand (VOD) services to end users

Company introduces a new line of DRAM-based search engines, both as chips and semiconductor cores

Verizon selects Cisco 12000 Series routers to support national Layer 3 IP/MPLS VPN network

OpVista completes Series C funding round of $10M, led by Excelsior Venture Partners III, to increase marketing and sales support

PacketFront hires Per Møller as global channel manager to focus on increasing sales through partners all over the world

China Netcom selects Cisco Systems to build its nationwide IP/MPLS network with 12000 and 7000 Series routing platforms

Andrew Feldman was previously VP of corporate marketing and corporate development for Riverstone Networks

Norcast Communications deploys CopperCom complete class 5 solution; CopperCom offers rental program for its next-gen switching solution

Taqua's new series Class 5 switching products provide foundation for intelligent convergence of voice into next-generation networks

Adtran announces the first in a new line of environmentally-hardened, line-powered DSLAMs for pole and pedestal mounting

These are the saddest of possible words: IP QOS features for Net to Net's IP DSLAMs enable triple-play voice, video, and Internet services

Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble: Fujitsu and Entrisphere team up for a live demonstration of triple-play services over FTTP

Making a Giant hit into a double: SkyStream's Mediaplex integrated with Occam's BLC 6000 to enable delivery of triple-play services

Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble: Samsung to Orca Interactive to Optibase to Kasenna for end-to-end triple-play solution

UK operator is using Huawei's Quidway NE40 routers to offer Ethernet services

Siemens Subscriber Networks, a research and development center for broadband technology based in Dallas, San Jose, Brussels, and Zurich

Multicavity filters based on compact microring resonator technology have up to eleven cavities for 50GHz, 25GHz, or narrower-band apps

Something to do with a 'Rugged Optical Butt Joint'

Former Qwest CEO will disgorge $400,000 in profits from the controversial practice know as IPO spinning

Vendor offers ATM, Ethernet cards for its XDM Sonet/SDH platform

New Ethernet and ATM interface cards for the XDM­ hydrid optical platform extend the SDH/Sonet network, facilitate migration to 3G

Marconi outsources microwave product manufacturing to Elcoteq in Germany; 340 employees to transfer to new owners; Marconi paid €10M

Now expects 2003 turnover of €540M, down from €560M previously forecast; 2H operating loss of €8M now assumed, down from breakeven

Revenues were $172.1M, up 13% from $152.0M in last year's Q3, for net income of $7.2M ($0.02/share), up from a loss of $88.3M ($0.24/share)

The MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance launches a message board, names 14 new members, and appoints new officers

Israel Ministry of Defense selects ECI Telecom's XDM for deployment in the Israel Defense Forces' Optical Communications Network

Allstream's international data network services offer simplified global network connectivity with a single point of contact

Lightwaves2020 passes annual ISO-9001:2000 on-site surveillance audit with 100% conformity to standards

Finisar Corporation agrees to the sale of $130M of convertible subordinated notes due 2010 to qualified institutional buyers

Telia launches high-speed broadband services based on ADSL and VDSL technologies, running at 8 Mbit/s and 10 Mbit/s, respectively

Federal Communications Commission approves application for transfer of control of Global Crossing to Singapore Technologies Telemedia

Molex sells off its 10-Gbit/s transceiver business, which targets Xenpak and X2 modules primarily

A major broadband networking provider has made an initial purchase of over $300,000 worth of Path 1's Cx1000 Video over IP Gateways

Canbras Communications agrees to sell all its broadband communications operations in Brazil to Horizon Cablevision for $32.6M

The Metro Ethernet Forum ratifies the industry's first Ethernet service standard, Ethernet Services Model Phase 1

ForeScout Technologies broadens OPSEC integration with Check Point Software for its ActiveScout perimeter security technology

Siemens creates a new R&D unit, comprised of four centers in Dallas, San Jose, Brussels, and Zurich, called Siemens Subscriber Networks

DSL.net receives additional time -- through December 8 -- to comply with Nasdaq SmallCap Market's minimum bid price rule

Lancope upgrades StealthWatch with innovative, behavior-based detection of file-sharing activity to shut down copyright infringers

Sunbelt Telecommunications to resell Ciena's networking portfolio as a Solutions Alliance member; due will exhibit at USTA Telecom '03

Extreme's Craig Easley elected to the board of directors of the Metro Ethernet Forum

Xilinx collaborates with Queens University Belfast on a project called Programmable IC Platforms for Programmable IP Networks (Pippin)

CEO Rajesh Nair becomes chairman and CTO, names Jag Sisodia president and CEO, Eric Birch executive VP, and Brian Pitzer senior VP

Revenues were $28.6M, up from $7.4M from last year's Q3, for net income of $1.2M ($0.01/share), up from a loss of $21.6M ($0.11/share)

IBM and Cirpack to provide carrier-class voice switches to promote new value-added telephony services and more operator profitability

Delta releases software-based voice- and video-over-IP test tools, including H.323 and SIP call generators and protocol analyzers

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ratifies its contract with Verizon, with 90% voting 'yes'

Optical Solutions' FiberPath 500 fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) system is now on the Rural Utilities Service's list of materials

John McLeod becomes VP of network operations; Mike Stewart becomes president of mid-markets; Jack Brooks is VP of human resources

AT&T appoints VADS Berhad as its managed service provider in Malaysia to deliver its portfolio of global managed networking services

OnFiber extends its metro fiber network with fSona's SONAbeam optical wireless technology to deliver rapid connectivity solutions

RAD Data Communications says it's the first vendor in compliance with the I.366.2 Voice Trunking Format over MPLS Implementation Agreement

Lucent Technologies selected to provide multi-vendor managed services for Telemar's optical network in Brazil, in a three-year deal

Korea's LG CNS to resell and support Juniper Networks solutions to service providers and information intensive enterprises in Korea

Nortel Networks unveils new converged networking solutions for small, medium companies, extending IP telephony to all enterprise segments

New Edge Networks spreads its broadband reach into 75 new markets via nationwide DSL deal with MCI Wholesale Services

OFS, Wave7 Optics, and Microsoft demonstrate Xbox Live online gaming applications over a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network

Asian feeder and liner operator RCL expands relationship with Equant in a two-year, $1M+ IP VPN contract, including Private Dial Services

IP Dynamics hires Leanne Brunette, former senior director of sales for Exodus Commsunications, as vice president of North American sales

Q1-Q3 revenues totaled €385M, up 70% from last year; Q3 revs were €150M, up from €135.6M in Q2; clients more than double Y/Y to 290,000

Finisar intends to offer $100M principal amount of convertible subordinated notes due 2010, plus up to an additional $15M of notes

Hitachi introduces the AMN Optical Access product family, including a triple-play B-PON, and teams with Wave7 Optics for the FTTx market

Covista Communications picks Transaction Network Services' Telecom Services Division to provide Signaling System 7 (SS7) network services

Arris has reached agreement with its major customers on the timing and pricing to upgrade deployed Cadant C4 CMTS to Docsis 2.0 specs

DSL Forum's new technical reports specify an IP-centric architecture for next-gen DSL services, enabling voice and video on demand

Trend Communications debuts a new test module which enables the Aurora Tango to test Gigabit Ethernet networks

Interactive Enterprise announces Open Conexon, a broadband provisioning and service activation software platform

Encore Networks names Simon Reeves sales director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

Two regional carriers deploy Pedestal's Universal Broadband Server, the first line-powered DSLAM, for instant-on service activation

Clark County, Nevada School District picks Foundry to provide network infrastructure for a new high-speed MAN for voice, video, and data

Glowpoint names David C. Trachtenberg, former StarBand President, Prodigy COO, and MCI executive, as chief executive officer

Optiwave expands the capabilities of its OptiSystem software tool for the design and simulation of optical system components and modules

Internap Network Services completes netVmg acquisition, announces agreement to acquire Sockeye Networks for about $1.75M in stock

Check Point introduces VPN-1 Edge turnkey appliance family for securing remote sites and deploying large-scale VPNs

Fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) service providers turn to General Bandwidth's G6 Packet Telephony Migration Platform for VOIP

Sprint to help Navigance Technologies secure nation's general aviation facilities with WLAN equipment and IP transport services

KDDI and Tokyo FM announce field trials integrating digital terrestrial audio broadcasting and wireless networks

Names Steve Mitchell VP of North America S&M, Hubert Schanne VP of international S&M; Jay Hilbert, former SVP of global sales, is gone

Will commit an extra €2.5M to R&D efforts on products for optimizing existing networks; lowers sales targets for year from €28M to €24M

Siemens names Jan D. Dressel, former VP and CIO Siemens Asia Pacific in Singapore, as vice president and chief information officer

Bookham Technology announces completion of the acquisition of Ignis Optics and the proposed listing of Bookham Ordinary Shares

Agilent Technologies introduces millimeter-wave and microwave monolithic ICs for cost-sensitive RF and optical networking systems

Arden Photonics to unveil new metrology technology, the AWS-50 range of wavefront sensors, developed by European R&D organisation QinetiQ

Migration from legacy services will comprise 82% of the installed base of US Ethernet service ports in 2004, says Vertical Systems Group

Terayon Communication Systems names Jeffrey Barco VP and GM of Digital Video Solutions, William Rohrbach VP of North America Sales

India's Vebtel selects iBasis to provide international long-distance service for its business and residential customers

Alfalight selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the Super-High-Efficiency Diode Sources (SHEDS) program

Squire Creek Communications picks Alcatel's FTTU to wire a Louisiana 'golf community' (but what exactly is that??)

Fujitsu and Siemens Business Services announce partnership in IT-services agreement to support global expansion of customers' business

Jackson Energy places initial order for $15M of Wave7 Optics equipment to undertake the largest FTTP deployment in North America

Xilinx accelerates expansion into $23B ASIC market with breakthrough pricing for 90nm Spartan-3 family of FPGAs

Render, Vanderslice & Associates says fiber-to-the-home is now available to 180,300 homes and has been connected to 64,700

Agilent and Huazhong University of Science and Technology to jointly establish electronic instrument measurement automation lab in Wuhan

Aventail advances SSL VPN competitive advantages in security, policy management, and scaleability with introduction of ASAP 7.0

Accord to support joint deployments of Spirent's remote test platform with Nortel's OPTera Metro 3500 Multiservice Platform

Buckeye CableSystem deploys Internet Photonics' LightStack platforms in new multiservice network for VOD and commercial services

Mintera exits stealth mode, announcing its first product line -- the MI 40000 for migration to 40 Gbit/s -- and its strategy roadmap

F5 Networks's FirePass Controller offers the definitive solution for secure remote access, eliminating the need for IPSec VPNs

Adaptif Photonics releases its series of high-speed polarization measurement and control instruments

Time Warner Cable deploys OpVista's MetroVista 2000 optical transport system to enable digital video and data services in New York

NetScreen Technologies to acquire SSL VPN and application security gateway leader Neoteris for about $245M in stock and $20M in cash

Extreme Networks will supply IPv6-enabled Ethernet switching platforms for nationwide IPv6 interoperability demonstration

Nortel to supply CDMA2000 1X core, radio, and wireless access and services to support expansion of US Cellular's nationwide 3G network

Motorola intends to separate its semiconductor operations into a publicly traded company in order to sharpen focus on communications

Allied Telesyn fiber gateway chosen for Phase I of the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (Utopia) FTTP project

LightCore expands its network into Texas and Louisiana with a new fiber optic ring, adding 800 route miles of long-haul and metro fiber

Critical Telecom offers its FRED (Full Rate Extended DSL) product and banks $12.7M equity financing, led by VenGrowth Capital Partners

eSoft USA appoints Shreyan Infotech as VAR partner in its first foray into the Indian VPN market

AMCC, IBM, Infineon Technologies, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx team to create the Unified 10Gbps Physical-Layer Initiative (UXPi)

Test systems developer Shenick closed €2.5M in a first round of private equity funding, with Trinity Venture Capital as new investor

Korean IT standards body selects Nortel Networks gear for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) interoperability testing and certification

Norway's Ella Communications to work with Allied Telesyn to provide a triple-play solution to its clients over fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)

Agere Systems is providing seven different types of ASICs for Lucent's Metropolis DMX portfolio of metro access systems

The Optical Internetworking Forum publishes a TDM Fabric to Framer Interface Implementation Agreement (IA), known as TFI-5

It will continue to Liberate the Local Exchange as a subsidiary of Heico Companies LLC

Settles claims that it violated Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and/or Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act in 18 states

Claro, a subsidiary of America Movil, selects Nortel Networks to deploy a GPRS core network across all its GSM properties in Brazil

German mobile operator deploys Check Point FireWall-1 GX to secure GPRS networks against overbilling, DOS attacks, and network flooding

Although IP transit prices are sliding, TeleGeography research says bankrupt carriers are pricing less aggressively than was expected

K2 Optronics' EC-48 external cavity lasers (ECLs) meet and exceed Telcordia's GR-468-CORE reliability assurance standards

OSI Fibercomm introduces 155-Mbit/s and 622-Mbit/s InGaAs photodiodes with TIAs for datacom and telecom applications

New Edge Networks to sell Verizon's symmetric high bit-rate DSL (SHDSL) technology in nationwide wholesale agreement

Corning Cable Systems introduces its LANscape Solutions UniCam Connector Elite Tool Kit, which has a really cool name

Tellabs is sad 'to see good people leaving,' but it's 'crucial' to lay off 370 and close its development center in St. Laurent, Quebec

Optical component companies join forces, putting Arroyo's ROADM devices alongside Lightcross's VOAs

Virginia Hospital Center deploys NetScreen Technologies' firewall/VPN and intrusion detection and prevention solutions

Dalton Utilities picks Tiogan Networks to operate the OptiLink fiber network, delivering voice, high-speed data, and entertainment services

Alcatel 1626 Light Manager combines the best of both undersea and terrestrial network technologies to provide unmatched performance

New outsource service exploits broadband to deliver affordable, remote network monitoring and support, cutting IT costs

Hifn announces IPv6, SSL VPN, and WLAN support for its line of Hifn Intelligent Packet Processing (HIPP) security processors

Telindus names Andy Zynga as vice president of business development

Keymile unveils the UMUX multiservice access platform, enabling delivery of ATM, TDM, and IP-based services from the same platform

Infonet's MPLS-enabled IP VPN Secure network connects 15 TNT Logistics sites around the world

Verizon Logistics and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 824 reach tentative agreement on new contract in Florida

Minority holdings in Belgian incumbent to be floated in 2004; government to retain majority stake

Alcatel wins 7.5-year, €450M contract from Tube Lines to re-signal certain London Underground lines

Marconi began trading on the Nasdaq National Market, in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) under the ticker MRCIY, today

Ericsson extends $1B revolving credit facility through 2007

THUS launches an MPLS-based IP VPN service using Ethernet as the access technology, driving down the cost of WAN applications

Verizon pays $20M to settle class action suit for overcharging California customers; lawyers pursuing suits nationwide

Time Warner Telecom delivers local Internet and voice services to Concordia University across 18 campus locations

Picolight unveils the first 1310nm transceivers to support multi-rate 1/2/4-Gbit/s Fibre Channel applications over 20km link distances

CERN, SURFnet, and the University of Amsterdam create the first trans-European 10-Gig Ethernet network, spanning 1700km and four countries

Lenslet to unveil the EnLight Optical DSP (digital signal processor), the world's first commercial optical processor, at Milcom 2003

Cisco integrates CallManager Express and Unity Express into its access routers to provide a simple, easy-to-deploy VOIP solution

Level 3 Communications repays the full $1.125B of debt obligations outstanding under its senior secured credit facility

Wolrad Claudy joins Tekelec's sales and marketing team as managing director of Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

Essex wins $57M 'defense-related' contract for software and systems engineering and delivery of custom systems to priority programs

SBC to make 'voluntary' payment of $1.35M to settle an investigation on possible violations of laws governing long-distance services

New Network Processing Forum Implementation Agreements enable the reuse of software interfaces across multiple networking platforms

Albis Optoelectronics relaunches the photodiode chips and receiver subassemblies product portfolio of the former Opto Speed

Tandberg becomes the first company to offer the new H.264 video-quality standard across its entire product line

Quintum Technologies launches the Tenor Call Relay SP Session Border Controller to meet the needs of next-generation service providers

OneEighty Networks acquires HighSpeed Communications operations in Washington and Oregon

Quartet creates a facility for business continuity proof-of-concept testing, enabling customers to test performance on a working network

PMC-Sierra expands portfolio of interoperable networking ICs with next-generation Arrow 622 and Arrow 155 metro transport framers

Telstra Europe, a subsidiary of the Australian carrier, to buy Powergen's UK telecom network (formerly called 'Hurricaneseye')

Veraz Networks and NetCentrex have completed interoperability testing for their Contact Center and IP Centrex solutions

Juniper Networks enables Zen Internet to meet massive increase in demand for ADSL services with a cool head, calm demeanor

Worcester Polytechnic Institute deploys Nortel infrastructure to support VOIP, data, and wireless services on a single network

A major (unnamed) Japanese broadcaster Path 1's Cx1000 Video-Over-IP Gateways for use in a trial transmitting live video material

Salira names former Nortel and Qwest executive Ross Lau as president and CEO as the company targets the China and Asia/Pacific market

Huawei to abide by Preliminary Injunction Order, voluntarily make changes to its router and switch products to address Cisco's concerns

UK provider of data storage solutions purchases (3)FlexSM Ethernet services from Level 3 to link six key european markets

TeliaSonera Finland leads the market in the provision of broadband access for Finnish households, with 30% share (100,000 households)

Marconi sub wins a three-year, £46M contract to provide operation and maintenance support for military networks in the Middle East (Iraq?)

BP to keep 13,000 employees at 22 locations in the UK in touch through a managed communications service agreement with Siemens

Equant scores a long-term deal to manage Zurich Financial Services Group's telecom and network services in seven European countries

Photonics Control announces a standard control platform for optical components, simplifying integration with subsystems

Companies collaborate to make Infineon's framers work more smoothly with Vitesse's grooming switch chips