Belgacom to deploy Sorrento's GigaMux optical transport system

Former Tech Data executive John Lochow named President and Chief Executive Officer

As CFO and VP of operations, Ifhar will be responsible for strategic financial and operational development at the startup

IronView Network Manager, a next-gen network management platform for its enterprise, service provider, and metro provider customers

The ZEN-TSP TDM Service Processor is a component of ZettaCom's Universal Switch Architecture

Won't pay dividends on its 7-1/4 percent cumulative convertible preferred stock this quarter

Expects sales in the Q3 of fiscal year 2001 to be approximately $41 million, less than previously projected

Publishes "Optical Taxonomy," a dissection of the next-generation telecom equipment market

Launches 40-channel, grating-based, single-input DWDM product

Jost Spielvogel has been a senior executive at Siemens; COO and CTO appointments complete management team

Carrier1 and Net Insight team to provide professional broadband services to TV and media companies in Europe's major cities

Announces March launch of colocation facility in Manhattan; $10M strategic relationship with EurekaGGN

To speed next-gen equipment development through common hardware and software specs

Siemens has chosen Codeon's 10-Gbit/s and 40-Gbit/s high-speed optical modulators for a field trial

Reducing its global workforce by approximately 3,000 people; intends to continue to hire in its high-growth product areas

David Ahee, from Unisphere Networks, joins Nexsi Corp. as VP of sales

SONAbeam series promises reliable, high bandwidth, wireless network access for last-mile communications

To combine NetLogic's search engines with Xelerated's net processors to speed the release of 40-Gbit/s data plane solutions

Agility will provide tunable lasers for Network Photonics' next gen metro technology

Nottingham University becomes first Bookham Technology funded center for optoelectronic education and research

Acquisition brings Intel voice-over-packet technology for optical networks

WaveForm Architecture addresses multiservice switching

Providing Shanghai Telecom with optical networking products, including the WaveStarBandWidth Manager, DACS, and ADM 16/1

HarbourVest Partners led the Series B financing round for the startup subsystem vendor

64x64 3D module combines scaleable architecture with fully integrated control electronics in small-form-factor housing

Verio expands its backbone using 360 networks' global circuits

Fortis Group to lease fiber optic infrastructure from Metromedia Fiber Network in the Netherlands

Telia to deploy Redback Networks' Subscriber Management Technology throughout its European broadband network

Names Barbara Blanck, formerly at Global One, Vice President, North American Sales

New BigIron gigabit Ethernet modules and IronWare software release 7.2

Startup has signed supply agreements to provide its PolarWave Optical Slicer filters to Nortel Networks

Startup claims low insertion loss for Kaleidoscope and Fiberkey optical switch modules

Corning among investors in tunable laser startup

Complaint alleges that defendants repeatedly issued statements that overstated sales growth and revenues

Including $4.5 billion of new 364-day credit facilities arranged by J. P. Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney

To offer carriers and hosted ASPs a complete range of broadband fiber optic services; Reed Hundt to chair

MPLS 4.6, the newest version of its Performance Optimized MPLS Software Solution Suite

To deliver 100,000km of optical fiber, allowing bandwidth capabilities in excess of 10 Mbit/s, to Grande Communications

For the joint development of 10- and 40-Gbit/s high-speed receivers

Suite of products for Raman amplifiers includes combiners, isolators, couplers, and hybrid modules

$1 million gift will enable university to launch virtual networking lab

The OC192 return-to-zero (RZ) modulator has a bandwidth up to 12GHz

It has lit 6,100 kilometers of its fiber optic network spanning the U.K., France, Germany, and The Netherlands

Siemens to acquire global DSL leader Efficient Networks Inc. for $1.5 billion

ShanDong ZiBo Telecom, part of China Telecom, is to install 10-Gbit/s optical technology from Marconi

ADC Telecommunications invests in VManage, a provider of broadband network management platforms

Allows U.S. carriers to anonymously buy and sell international wholesale voice traffic

Startup secures first round of financing for $3 million from VC firm TechnoCap

Robert Loewen, most recently with eCopper, this week joined CableNet International as Vice President, Global Market Development

Compared to $42.7 million reported in Q1 of fiscal 2000 and $132.1 million reported in Q4 of fiscal 2000

OPA designs and manufactures automated and semi-automated systems for the manufacture of fiber optic components and modules

Sales of $805 million, up 36%; record first-quarter sales in all three major business groups

52,000 square-foot Milpitas office is four times the size of the space Velio previously occupied in San Jose

Total revenues were a $64.8 million, up 293% from the third quarter of fiscal 2001

Up 26 percent over the year-ago quarter; earnings before goodwill of $205 million, up 43 percent

GigaTera, a company developing components for next-gen optical nets, has gotten financing from Broadband Capital and JK&B Capital

Dr. Heinz Meier, until recently sales and marketing director at Nortel, Switzerland, appointed to Avalon's Board

Announces agreements with Cegetel, Motorola, Mitsubishi, Samsung, PrairieComm, Webraska, MapInfo at 3GSM World Congress

Former JDS Uniphase Sales and Marketing Director Jake Weise joins Bandwidth9 as Vice President of Marketing

S7022 and S7025 chipset can be used with other AMCC devices to provide optical backplane solutions ranging from OC3 to XAUI rates

Works with Tellabs' MartisDXX platform and combines its R-2 radios with Nokia's Hopper microwave access radios

Tektronix has reached an agreement with Ultra Fast Optical Systems for an option to license its patented optical switching inventions

Worldwide revenues for next-gen voice products totaled $386M in 2000 and are forecasted to total $6B in 2004

Alidian Optical Equipment completes testing with Metromedia Fiber Network for use in multiservice metro networks

Revenues for SP core and edge hardware are seen to reach $50.6B in 2004; intelligent optical network hardware to reach $8.52B in 2001

Dutch Carrier to deploy Cisco's DPT technology

Henan Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom, will be deploying Cisco’s Dynamic Packet Transport (DPT) solution

Michael Decelle, Ali Haider, George Simpson Jr., and Daniel Rabun

ClassiPI processor provides Layers 2 through 7 classification for gigabit Ethernet and OC48 applications

Will use I-Cube's IQX320 high-speed Crosspoint Switch IC in a new family of optical gateways

Optical Solutions' FiberPath optical fiber-to-the-home will be deployed in a planned residential community in Daytona Beach

John Roth says Bill Conner and Chahram Bolouri "acted with total integrity."

Announce compatibility between Entridia’s wire-speed packet forwarding ASICs and Lara’s network database search engine devices

Announces family of products capable of extending optical fiber up to 200km over fast Ethernet and 70km over gigabit Ethernet

GTRAN Inc. claims world's fastest semiconductor commercial process for 40-Gbit/s Sonet products

Contract with China Telecom in excess of $30 million for the largest digital crossconnect network ever built in Asia

The Cisco 7600 Optical Services Router

To purchase NetRail Inc., a Tier 1 wholesale IP service provider, in an all-stock transaction

$1 million deal for Emperative's ProvEn provisioning engine and Cable Modem Express

WaveStar Wireless Network Solution includes optical systems from Bell Labs

Integrates all the electronics required for an entire Sonet OC48 line card on a single chip

A 22,000 square foot facility in Santa Clara

Has completed the sale of $3.25 billion of Senior Notes in a Rule 144A offering

Enhanced Service Levels global.net extended to Europe

JDS Uniphase's MEMS division wins TL 9000 hardware certification from the QuEST Forum

Gerard Caccappolo, who helped found the first European IP backbone, heads back home

Cox to use its software for automated activation of customers' cable modems

Building LEC sheds 140

Will supply DWDM systems for "first nationwide optically switched data network"

Metro optical networking platform for service providers shipping to customers; R&D and manufacturing facility completed

Daniel Dorman, chairman and president of D.J. Dorman & Co. and president of Princeton Capital Fund

Inks deal with Rudin Management Co. to equip 16 commercial properties in New York City with all-optical 100-Mbit/s Internet access

In the face of weakening fiber and photonics markets

Claims the world's first high-frequency gigabit Ethernet system, the FibeAir 10000

Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners fund Internet infrastructure startup

Joseph Nacchio intends to sell stock issued upon the exercise of 6.1 million options he was granted in June 1997

Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, and Nottingham join its European fiber optic network

NT slashes first-quarter expectations

Burt Walker appointed president and CEO of Broadata Communications

iFlow Programming Environment (iPE) and iFlow Reference Software (iRS) to speed 10-gig products to market

OPTX Management Portal software to enable virtual private optical networks

To use funds to develop modules and components for the DWDM market; investors include BCE Capital, Lucent Venture Partners, and Primaxis

Adjusted net income of $0.18 per diluted share; Level 3 announced as new MultiWave CoreDirector customer

Announces NetActivator Version 2, a simplified method for automating the provisioning process of complex, disparate networks

Global cable deployment reached $24.4 billion in 2000, according to a report from ElectroniCast

Designing chips with IBM for 40-Gbit/s optical networking gear; funding led by Storm Ventures and US Venture Partners

Reports net loss of $2.11 per share on $5,160 million revenues in year 2000

Empyrean Communications will employ Light Management Group's fiber-optical switch over its broadband networks

More than 50 Cablefree Solutions optical laser links to be operational in South Africa by early spring

Fiber Optic Network Solutions Corp.'s round two funding led by Oak Investment Partners, with Morgenthaler Ventures and Intel Capital

To offer integrated planning and test solutions for MPLS and PNNI

PowerTune delivers 20 milliwatts of optical power across the entire C-band

The first 10,000 miles of its 18,000-route mile domestic long-haul optical backbone

Sue Agopian will serve as VP of worldwide sales and Phillip Congdon will serve as senior technical advisor to the CEO

Quantum Bridge has identified Corning Cable Systems as its preferred provider of passive optical network infrastructure solutions

To offer Web hosting and managed applications services in conjunction with IBM

Gary J. Sbona appointed chairman and CEO, will replace founder Suresh Nihalani

FTRX, the industry's first 10-gigabit Ethernet serial optical transceivers

Sales of higher-margin DWDM widgets now account for 35% of revenue

Sale of JDSU's Zurich subsidiary to Nortel Networks also completed

Bob Chaney has been acting CEO since July 2000, before which he was senior VP of marketing and business development

Adaptive Communications Services, a portfolio of hardware, software, and professional services for next-gen broadband

Revenues were $149.2M, an increase of 414% over the $29M in the same period last year

Investors in its series B financing round include J.P. Morgan Partners, Weston Presidio, and Cabletron Systems

Series C funding from Greylock Partners, Pilot House Ventures, Nortel Networks, 360networks, Sycamore Networks, and others

ONI will acquire technology and other assets associated with Finisar's Opticity product line

Bill Cadogan, chairman and CEO at telecom equipment maker ADC, is joining St. Paul Venture Capital as a general partner

Pass Telcordia GR1221 and GR1209 qualification tests for 40-channel Arrayed Waveguide Gratings

12-month agreement includes delivery and installation of a 15,000km long-haul network for China Telecom

World’s first 6,400km terrestrial transmission without electrical regeneration

Demos multichannel 10-Gbit/s transmission through standard singlemode fiber using cascaded discrete Raman amplifiers in the S-band

Thomas H. Wessel, Lucent's former director of optoelectronics package manufacturing and engineering, named manufacturing VP

ADVA gets 3-year contract from BT Ignite for its DWDM optical access platform FSP-II

New family of high-power (+13 dBm), DFB laser-source modules aims to reduce testing costs in R&D and manufacturing

Recent recruits include Michael Gassewitz from SpaceBridge, and Denis Gallant and Alain Brazeau from Alcatel

Opens packaging facility in Mezzovico; research facility in Rome and manufacturing facility in Ruschlikon to open soon

Broadband multiservices platform integrates the functionality of a Layer 3+ switch, edge router, QOS engine, and IP service switch

3.125-Gbit SERDES for the 10-gig Ethernet, Sonet/SDH, Infiniband, Fibre Channel, and high-speed serial backplane markets

Swedish telco Skanova taps Ericsson and Extreme Networks for deployment of broadband access to residential market

Redback Networks SMS technology deployed in @Home Benelux's Netherlands broadband network

Adds 3.125-Gbit/s, low-cost laser drivers, limiting amps, and TIAs

W. L. Gore & Associates, Agilent Technologies, and Mitel agree to common standard for 12-channel parallel optic modules

Optical systems, data products, software, and services for a telecom network linking the U.S. with Europe, Asia, and Latin America

Dr. David Heatley appointed Teem Photonics' VP for North America

For corporate development; technology and product development; global operations; and general counsel and secretary

Southampton Photonics says it's shipping components that can cram 320 wavelengths into a fiber

Two standards - G.709 and G.959.1 - help pave the way towards multi-vendor optical networks.

Includes standard which targets low cost business connections

Reported SEC investigation "is not new news."

With Daniel Island Media Co., to offer fiber-to-the-home in Charleston, S.C.

Randall J. Kruep, senior VP of Worldwide Customer Operations for Redback Networks, will begin with Procket in March

The domestic and international sales team will be led by Richard Bibb, customer service by David Hare

Expansion of facilities in Zhuhai, Shanghai, and Chengdu to 800,000 total square feet by the end of 2001

Terry Markwardt joins Radiant Photonics as Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing

Michael Di Paolo, ex-FastComm, is Director, Product Management; Roch Marleau, ex-Nortel, is Director, Product Marketing

Revenue increases 84% over third Quarter; total customers increase to 16

MetroFlex tunable optical filters for use in DWDM metropolitan area networks

James P. Goodman, formerly a Lucent executive, to be senior vice-president of worldwide sales and marketing

Could be too much pasta

Intends to pay a dividend of five cents per share on its common stock on or before June 30, 2001

Former Xylan and PMC-Sierra CFO brings experience in leading companies to successful IPOs

Revenues of $5.9 billion, 35 cents EPS

To foster and address carrier-specific technical recommendations

Using AVS/Express software in its 8614X-series optical spectrum analyzers

eHealth SPV 4.8 offers scaleability of 1 million elements, OSS integration and new support for DSL and IP VPN services

To develop indium phosphide heterojunction bipolar transistors

Software firm chosen by Siemens Carrier Networks to drive its network management core for the SieBOSS platform

Incumbent carrier orders DWDM and SDH backbone, plus microwave gear

San Jose R&D facility will enable Multiplex to dramatically reduce its new product development times

Cash revenues were $596.4M for the full year; adjusted EBITDA for the full year was $506.4M

Parisians expect phone bills to soar

New features include ATM networking, ATM/TDM gateway, and dedicated high bandwidth services

Lead investors include Geocapital and Cisco

Enables three DS3 or E3 high-speed connections to be aggregated and transported over a single OC3 wireless communications link

Funding for optical technology startup comes from Intel Capital and the Geometry Group

McLeodUSA selects Ciena MultiWave CoreDirector for deployment on its One Functional Network

EDFA pump modules, optical switches, programmable lasers, and more to be released in 2001/2002 by Blue Sky Research

CorWave XL and CorWave XF products will deliver ultra-high capacity for terrestrial (XL) and festoon (XF) links

Total revenue grew to $253.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2000, ended December 31

Aevia has certified Alidian's Optical Service Network DWDM systems for interoperability with equipment from Extreme and Foundry

New CEO Mark Ward and COO Jim Sullivan; current CEO Harry Dixon to continue as chairman

Net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2001 were $6.75 billion

Mike Smith, ex-Ciena, is appointed Director of Software Engineering

Also announces development of a complete service control solution for optical mesh networks

200GHz 16-channel and 100GHz 32-channel DWDM rack modules

New investors include Mustang Ventures, Amerindo, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and Deutsche Bank Alex Brown

Worldview IV exceeded firm's goals

To sell Zurich subsidiary to Nortel Networks and expand supply relationship

Will pay $2.5B in its common shares on closing, as well as up to an estimated $500M in its common shares after December 31, 2003

Public offering of 11M shares of common stock at a per share price of $83.50 and the sale of $600 million of 3.75% convertible notes

With the new office in Gothenburg, Sweden, Optillion gets proximity to Chalmers University of Technology

S/UNI-IMA-84 provides over 10-times density improvement for T1/E1 ATM inverse multiplexer designs

John Jendricks, ex Juniper, becomes VP of biz dev. Steve Mullaney, ex Cisco, becomes VP of marketing

Already the subject of previous announcements ($139M in October and $174M at end 2000)

Agilent 81480A is aimed at manufacturers and developers of passive optical components covering the 1370 to 1480 nm range

Ten percent workforce reduction is expected to result in a one-time charge of approximately $800,000 in Q1 2001

Michael S. Castleman joins optical components manufacturer Molecular OptoElectronics Corp.

Will focus on developing broadband access solutions for tomorrow's converged networks

Forte, the industry's first dual full-duplex OC48c configurable wire-speed packet-forwarding engine for optical multiservice platforms

A multi-year, multimillion-dollar contract for the Redback SmartEdgeT 800

Agreement with Italian university supports R&D program in photonic technologies and devices for fiber optic communications

CX29950 RingMaker ring processing unit offers up to 5 Gbit/s of data throughput on a pair of OC48 RPR network rings

Design Technology Corp., a systems integrator specializing in robotics and flexible automation solutions for manufacturing

Fourth member of the Iris Group of optical startups will focus on core packet switching systems

S/UNI-IMA-84 offers over 10-times density improvement for T1/E1 ATM inverse multiplexer designs

Second round of funding led by Sevin Rosen

Prospective customers kick in on second round

A series of solution packages targeted at the broadband access, broadband transport, and data services market segments

It's acquiring Net Monitor, the company that developed Kestrel's element management software

Optical subsystem plant grows to 50,000 square feet

200GHz 4- and 8-channel DWDM modules promise the lowest insertion loss and polarization-dependent loss in the current market

CityNet robots deliver broadband networks through Indianapolis sewers. Klaatu barada nikto!

To provide every public school in Arizona with high-speed Internet access by the end of 2003

4Q'00 revenues of $8.8 million, 254% higher than year-ago quarter

6.125% notes which mature on February 15, 2006. The offering is expected to close on February 8, 2001

Sycamore will supply SN 16000 Intelligent Optical Switches and SN 8000 Metro Core transport platforms for Storm's buildout

Iowa carrier selects FiberPath platform -- fiber to the home for voice, video, and high-speed data

Appoints Michael Kwan as COO of China operations; establishes regional structure to expand business growth

Version 3.0 Intelligent Resource Exchange (IRX), a yield management software solution for broadband service providers

ENGINE is an open platform that provides WorldCom with a single multiservice network