Global Crossing cable is first 32-channel, 10-Gbit/s system, says TyCom

Optical Service Network products pass certification audit by TUV Essen

The broadnband fiber optic network connects 13 major cities across Canada

Zaffire Names Jane Christ Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Michael Unger and Gianluca Rattazzi join Tropic Networks' board of directors

Dan Riordan will Vice President of Business Development at the broadband access equipment vendor

Infigate GmbH, has selected Alcatel optical fiber to connect Prague, Frankfurt, Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Berlin

Venture will deliver mobile Internet routing products to be sold exclusively by Ericsson

The GR2000 Gigabit Router family will support IPv6 in February 2001

Internet bandwidth provider has deployed ServerIron Layer 4-7 Web switches and BigIron Layer 3 switches

Genuity will deploy CIENA’s MultiWave CoreDirector intelligent optical core switching systems in its nationwide network

Ken Brizel leaves Lucent to join component vendor

Blames "detioration of Northpoint's business operations and financial condition"

Emulates networks so that MPLS can be tested before roll-out

The TIP Bi-Directional Coupler can be used with any wavelength in the 1550nm or 1310nm windows

LiNbO3 modulators work in the 1550nm wavelength and can also be designed for 1300nm or L-Band

Progress has selected ONI Systems as a major supplier for its optical metro networks

Demand for optical networking software will create a $7.6 billion market by 2004

In the six months to September 30, 2000

Strategic alliance combines Tellabs' flexible broadband access systems with Riverstone's high-speed edge routers

With fiber array assemblies for Agfa's next-gen Xcalibur VLF thermal platesetters

An increase of 63 percent over $634 million in Q4 1999

For the production of AMP Lightray MPX fiber optic interconnection system products

After Nov 3 IPO, component company announces hefty increases in revenues, income

Continues work on OC-768 specs, names new board members

Samer Salameh becomes president and CEO of iVMG, a startup service provider

Pays 7.96 million shares for Israel's Vision Tech

Investors in the high-tech business accelerator include Austin Ventures, Capital Southwest Corp., and CenterPoint Ventures

Plans to develop a new platform for wholesale broadband access services

For a fully digital audio-visual transmission infrastructure for the Mediterranean Games in October 2001

IBM, Infineon, and UMC have started building chips with the most advanced 0.13-micron foundry process technology available

Amtec SpA, headquartered in Rome, designs IP secure access systems

Pacific Broadband Communications founded by former employees of AT&T Broadband, Alcatel, and others; funded by Raza Foundries

Opens the Netherlands' first IP capacity exchange

To provide solution set that combines hardware and software in a single chip for the growing communications market

Plans to invest over $40 million and create 500 new jobs at its facilities in the Quebec Metro High Tech Park

Its BE 2000 second generation broadband access platform has been qualified to meet Euro-DOCSIS

A general partner with Worldview Technology Partners

ADC's Cuda 12000 IP Access Switch to be deployed in Cox's mid America region

Will commence a tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of OSI for $17.75 per share in cash

The component maker's investment in Kanata, Ontario, will create 500 jobs

Awarded contract by Japanese network operator Right Net for DSL broadband access technology

AT&T Broadband purchases account for a "significant portion" of Antec sales

Impact limited to 1-2% of 4Q sales.

"No material effect on financial results"

Is "very comfortable" with consensus EPS of $0.35 for 4Q2000 and $1.65 for 2001

Service provider triples revenues, turns profitable, announces rights issue

Adds fiber optics connector and cable assemblies to SMTC's portfolio of electronics manufacturing services

Leases 4,068-km of fiber from Global One and KPNQwest to complete Tier 1 IP backbone

Nordic carrier issues 9,288,500 shares at SEK-80 each

Gives ADC access to Research Center COM facilities

Introduces the ISX3025 Optical Distribution Node for the Optiworx Multimedia Transport Platform

Third funding round for developer of lightspeed optical signal processing technologies

Announced the availability of five new hardware products and support for two higher-layer services

Allan Fox, once head of Nortel's Harlow lab, joins Polatis, a startup making an all-optical switch

James Fultz, most recently executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer for Antec Corporation

Infonetics reports worldwide revenues for service provider core and edge hardware totaled $3.96 billion in 3Q00

Clayton Smith named Director of Research and Development at the designer of 40-160 Gbit/s opto-electronic components

Percentage growth in revenue from operations in 2000 projected to be "in the low 40's"

Offering 4.5 million shares of its common stock at $11.00 per share

"Revenue recognition issue" could reduce earnings per share 2 cents

Have settled all claims against each other brought under Intel's trade secret lawsuit against Broadcom

Net revenue of $10.8 billion for fiscal 2000, an increase of 29% over 1999; net earnings increased 48 percent

For the delivery of high-speed DWDM and SDH transmission systems in ten German metropolitan areas

TeraConnect Inc. will produce a variety of optical and optoelectronic devices

Optical network design system, version 2, features enhanced graphical user interface

Offering base stations, customer premises equipment, antennas, protocol and system software, and management software

Has deployed Foundry's BigIron Layer 3 switches and ServerIron Internet traffic and content management switches

Cash injection will be used to develop vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

To provide the largest Internet exchange point in Italy

A proving ground to help service providers and enterprises design and test their networks prior to launch

Ordered to pay Internet Machines VP John Wallner $282,000 in attorneys' fees following a suit brought by Alcatel

Almost doubling the previous fund size for the VC arm of Credit Suisse First Boston

Its TransXpress WaveLine MetroNet carries any protocol over WDM systems

Signs lease on 100,000-square-foot building to be used for manufacture of new laser platform

Patricof & Co. Ventures Inc. led the round

To fund expansion of its Richmond, BC, plant and to continue development of next-gen products in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

Has linked Montreal and New York City using Nortel Networks' OPTera Long Haul 1600 Optical Line System

For the period from April 1 to September 30, operating revenue was 664.8 billion yen (US$6B) and net income was 6.5 billion yen ($50M)

Equant to acquire the data business of Global One from France Telecom; France Telecom to be the majority shareholder of Equant

To enable enhanced IP, ATM, and managed wavelength services from Teleglobe

A stock option plan and a stock purchase plan for its employees

12.5 Gbit/s silicon germanium integrated transimpedance amplifier and automatic gain control amplifier for DWDM links

A three-year, 30 million euro (about US$26 million) contract

Has appointed Dennis Okamoto, formerly of USWest, to the position of CEO

AT&T veteran was most recently a VP at Dell Computer

Agility 3040 offers 4 milliwatts of power plus switching between 100 channels in 10 milliseconds

Startup is developing an advanced core end-to-end solution for convergence of voice and IP services over PON

Cisco and Ciena's share is up

Has not been served with any such lawsuit and denies any wrongdoing

Claims termination was sham so company could take back $65 million in stock options

Joint venture with Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Corporation

Stephen Beynon, currently MD of Cable & Wireless Optus's data & business services division, to be Band-X CEO

$712M in cash and $863M in stock for leading provider of network and service assurance solutions for DSL and private lines

Developer of components for optical networks attracts investments from Crescendo Ventures and Battery Ventures

Disputes a Bear Stearns report

$25M expansion to create 650 jobs in Israel and the U.S.

New VP of sales Ronald L. Kelley was most recently at Cyras Systems

Has reached an agreement to acquire the gigabit Ethernet network interface card (NIC) business of Alteon WebSystems

A multi-year agreement valued at up to approximately $40 million

Dallas is the 18th market served by Yipes' optical IP network

Network operating system enables service providers to offer optical services from the edge to the core of the public network

The new center will develop chips for high-speed data transmission

Alcatel will supply an intelligent, multi-service optical network with DWDM and SDH systems for Italian operator Wind

The Southern Cross Cable network links New Zealand to the United States and Australia

Has been issued a U.S. patent for its proprietary DWDM process, invented by Dr. Simon Cao, Avanex's CTO

To provide an integrated flow-through ordering and provisioning solution for IP and broadband data networks

From Agilent to West Bay Semiconductor

Trial of Lucent's 40G optical technology across a 71km fiber link between Brussels and Antwerp

Regional headquarters in London; named Guy Powell VP for Europe, Middle East, and Africa

Label Traffic Control System is the industry's first IETF standards-based MPLS solution

Offers dark fiber connection to the Internet, scaleable to multi-gigabit-per-second capacity

Network processor vendor opens technology and marketing facility in Raleigh, N.C.

DANTE has deployed Juniper Networks M40T Internet backbone routers in its TEN-155 pan-European IP research backbone

Will continue to maintain normal business operations

Has announced the completion of the next stage of TransTeleCom's optical transport network

Carrier-class systems startup completes its initial funding round, launches Canadian subsidiary

Most successful quarter in its history for the Singularit.e OSS Suite

Former Redback boss will also be president and chairman at the startup

To furnish high-capacity optical transmission technology for KDDI's nationwide network

Testing equipment vendor acquires French DWDM expertise, plans IPO

Leading the round of new strategic investors was ADC telecommunications

Revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2001 were $120.4 million; net loss was was $26.2 million

New Sorrento Mesa facility to accommodate rapid growth and serve as U.S. manufacturing base

Broadband service provider's second round of financing led by VantagePoint Venture Partners

Merger of Western Multiplex Corp. and Adaptive Broadband Corp. begins consolidation of wireless broadband market

Parallel optic modules designed to support terabit-scale networking equipment

Lucent to supply SDH and DWDM equipment for carrier's European backbone

Metromedia Fiber Network will employ LuxN's WavSystem products

Fiber interface devices for Sonet/SDH OC3/STM1 telecom and datacom applications up to 155 Mbit/s

Pro forma EBITDA for the provider of testing products was $40 million

Design teams will cooperate on development and jointly hold licenses for the resulting products

S/UNI-ATLAS-3200 enables OC48c network traffic management for multiservice core, edge, access and metro-DWDM equipment

A non-exclusive alliance to develop pre-engineered optical solutions

Adva to supply Torch Telecom with its CityLIGHT product

Behrooz Parsay, David Yoffie, and Alan Schwartz Ocio named senior vice presidents

Lead investor in Inkra Networks' initial round is Norwest Venture Partners at $9.9 million

Was Senior Vice President of Operations for Pratt & Whitney

To triple manufacturing capacity and create state-of-the-art customer resource center

Raj Sharma, John Hamburger, and Link Verstegen new marketing directors

$1000/month 100-Mbit/s Internet access service launching in 4 cities

For the LuxN WavStation and LuxN WavFarer, two of its WavSystem optical access products

Craig Gentner has announced his intention to retire from Redback in the first quarter of 2001

Interoute Telecommunications, a pan-European telecommunications company, will deploy Ciena's MultiWave Sentry 4000 systems

New NetProvision administration products enable service providers to minimize disruptions and report on net utilization

VitalAccess, multivendor provisioning software for broadband IP services

The uBR10012 Universal Broadband Router, a highly scalable cable modem termination system

A non-exclusive strategic alliance to provide OSS solutions to the global telecom market

The Cogent and MFN networks will interconnect and exchange traffic; MFN will also provide colocation services

A network architecture designed to help carriers broaden service offerings and reduce operational costs

Jim Sparks is now Associate VP of North American Sales and David Geisinger, VP of International Sales

$1000/month 100-Mbit/s Internet access service launched in four U.S. cities

Cisco will pay approximately $266 million in stock for the vendor of unified messaging solutions

Revenues of $3.06M compared to total revenues of $269,105 for Q1 of the previous fiscal year, a 1039% increase

Will enable the Alcatel 7770 RCP to have a wide range of interfaces

Will deploy Foundry BigIron IP switches to drive Gigabit-bandwidth in metro area networks

Funding round was co-led by Van Wagoner Capital Management and BlueStream Ventures

To purchase a 25% stake in Automated Test Solutions, an ultrahigh-tech test automation system manufacturer

HDTV-Over-IP technology chosen by World Wide Packets to display at Comdex/Fall 2000

Fourth round of funding, led by Sands Brothers & Co., brings total to $167 million

A universal gateway for broadband services into the home

John Clark takes helm of optical switch component startup

Global Crossing will trial Lantern gear for Gig Ethernet metro nets

Integrates Sycamore's net management into carrier's existing back-office systems

Part equity investment, part vendor finance, part loan

Plans to offer services in 50 cities with "mesh switch platform"

Record third quarter revenue of $119 million, gross profit of $51 million

Robert J. DeSantis, 44, was formerly with Citizens Communications Company

Will be listed on the Frankfurt exchange as TelesensKCSL

IBM will resell and service Packeteer products

TSR is carrying live traffic from Sandia Labs to the site of the demonstration at the ASCI booth in Dallas

$100 million expansion will create 1,300 jobs in London

CoServ and QSC are among the first products to deploy new environmentally-hardened DSLAMs

Total revenues (including research and development funding) increased 67% from the previous quarter to US$11.3 million

The 7770 Routing Core Platform (RCP), a multi-terabit IP core router; and the 7420 Edge Services Router

Purchase price is $275 million in cash and stock

World Wide Packets to unveil Ethernet to the subscriber broadband solution at Comdex 2000

Key addition to editorial team paves the way for further expansion

Verwaayen and Holder given coordination roles

Has officially opened its $52 million cable landing station in Southport, U.K.

A $5 million agreement to supply routers for an urban development residential project

To develop optical chips for high-speed networks

Vince DeMaioribus promoted, Ken Clark retires

An increase of 103% over Q2 revenues

Schwartz has held the CFO position at a number of high technology companies, including CheckPoint Software

Revenues up by 72 percent from last year to Euro 7.28 billion; net income up to Euro 1.13 billion

Sales reach $17.6 million but pro-forma net profits decline

One chip does the work of nine

Net sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2001 were $6.52 billion; pro forma net income was $1.36 billion

Will double the company's Broomfield, Colo., headquarters with the acquisition of a 23,000 square-foot facility

Tokyo-based telecommunications technology provider will market Zaffire's DWDM solutions to Japanese service providers

Cambrian Communications to build North American network with full suite of Cisco IP and optical solutions

Suzanne Boisvert, former recruiter for New Hong Kong Airport, joins optical wireless equipment maker

Investors include Optical Capital Group and Chase H&Q

Chris Koeneman, former Director of Operations for Cisco Systems in Europe, will join Celox as Vice President of Worldwide Sales

New members of the Quantum Bridge Access Alliance include AccessLan Communications, Copper Mountain Networks, and Tut Systems

"Redback Reading" to debut on Light Reading site

Has added the industry's first certification for Optical Internet professionals to the Nortel Networks Certification Program

VSC7166 is a 10-Gbit/s VSR optical interconnect IC that integrates the transmitter and receiver functions onto a single IC

Danube and S3455 ICS enable shorter development time of OC48 systems

SiByte is developing a new generation of high-performance, highly integrated processor chips

Boosts total funding to $57 million

Scott White appointed Vice President of Business Development

BXR-48000 is a single stage non blocking 480 Gigabit/s switch router

During the third quarter of 2000, $25.9 billion was invested in 1,774 companies

Optune Technologies will develop a new class of tunable optical filters

Paul J. Finke, former CEO of Entropic, will serve as CEO and president of Yafo Networks

Will also acquire a 5 percent stake in EZchip

United Pan-Europe Communications has selected Sorrento's GigaMux Long Reach products to provide a regional DWDM link

Expects sales to exceed $1 billion in the fourth quarter ended October 31, 2000

Advanced TelCom Group will use Astral Point’s ON 5000 optical services node in its multiservice metro network

NKF Kabel BV is providing 360networks exclusive use of its unique JETnet technology in North America

MEMX Inc. will initially focus on producing optical switches for the telecommunications industry

Growing customer base drives headcount to 220

Sequential quarterly revenue increased 12%; pro forma net profit increased 150% from prior quarter

Appoint C. Nicholas Keating Jr. of IP Infusion, Steve Young of Found, and Alfred J. Amoroso of CrossWorlds Software

Xina Quan, Norihiko Nakayama, and Giovanni Delrosso join N. America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe operations, respectively

A 1x2 fiber-optic mechanical switch

Advanced features allow field technicians to completely verify their networks for both transmission and service quality

New round of funding, led by European Venture Partners, brings two-year total to $162 million

Outlook for 2000 and 2001 remains unchanged

Fourth quarter year-over-year revenue growth is expected to be in the 7 to 9 percent range

One each for WorldCom and MCI

Class-action suit filed on behalf of purchasers of Copper Mountain Networks common stock

Founder, president, and CEO of Mintera Corp.; previously president of Enterprise Internetworking Systems at Lucent

Marconi's DWDM solution to provide super-fast Internet access in Malaysia