John C. Wyatt joins SDL as the VP of the newly formed Transmission Division
US prices exceed European ones for first time
Lead investors take 80% in Italtel, Telecom Italia's telecommunications switching equipment subsidiary
Ericsson supplies DWDM equipment for gigantic optical highway to central Europe through Denmark, Sweden and Finland
ECI Telecom is selling its Business Systems Division to ELCO Holdings for $75 million
Advanced Technology Ventures co-leads second round funding for Onix
Nortel and Juniper to form alliance
Partners Digital Island, Mirror Image, Yahoo, Zero Knowledge
Bechtel, Fluor, Getronics and Netro to install Cisco's broadband wireless
2,700 km 16-city fibre-optic network ready on time and on budget
ANADIGICS introduces InGaP HBT TIA for OC-192 fiber optic systems
Ex-e.spire Communications senior VP joins 2nd Century Communications management team
Nortel appoints Clarence J. Chandran COO
Alloptic announces management team and $8 million in private equity financing
Conexant to acquire Hotrail, a high-speed switch fabric and interconnect technology innovator
Executive Vice President responds to DOJ suit
Sales of Photonic Technologies expected to grow 80% this year
Half of the vendor's staff apply for shares
Plans to offer institutions 2.3 million shares at £16.90 each
Corning and Samsung announce expansion
Agilent to deliver a small-form-factor optical transceiver
Broadwing first to commercially deploy all-optical network
FCC approves Touch America's acquisition of Qwest Communications
Corning to acquire assets of Willow Systems
360networks and iAdvantage to provide broadband and data center services in Asia and North America
WaveSplitter brings Bill Diamond on-board ss President and CEO
Plans data centers, colo facilities, beefed up network
Startup carrier buys 8.9 million miles of Corning fiber for more than $1 billion
Telica lifts network subscriber performance
First 80 channel system in South America
Cisco is enticing, yet possibly shady
JDSU receives clearance for merger with E-TEK
openNET Coalition applauds court decision on open access
Lucent inaugurates new optical fibre facility in Denmark and announces additional $110 million investment
Ocean Optics launches innovative optical filter technology for optical network and display applications
Purchase gives company flexibility in fast-moving fiber-optic field
Dark fiber supplier starts competing with customers
Broadband access gateway startup appoints Hui Zhang as CTO
CiDRA announces it closed on a $100 million round of equity funding
360networks announces the completion of its $1 billion acquisition of GlobeNet
Yipes offers gigabit data pipes through COLO.COM colocation centers
360networks in discussions with Call-Net to purchase fiber assets
AirFiber announces trial with Teligent to test high-bandwidth wireless optical network
Redback Networks and AsainInfo form strategic alliance in China
Ciena class action suit dismissed without leave to amend
Lighthouse Communications, Inc, of Des Moines, IA, will use ON 5000s to offer high speed Internet services
Cisco Systems Completes Acquisition of Pentacom
Gives it full range of wireless local loop technologies
Herrmann's thin film filter technology strengthens Lucent's passive DWDM component portfolio
Alcatel accelerates production plans
New factory will make flame retardant cable used in public and private nets
Global Crossing selects Nortel for Pan-European metro network
Fujitsu and Exbit announce strategic partnership
Capital research management group leads $95 million round of financing
Osicom announced results for its fiscal 2001 first quarter
International FiberCom acquires Premier Cable Communications
Optical access technology enhances all-optical networks to provide new features and functionality
JDS Uniphase agrees to purchase motorola facility for Cronos MEMS capacity expansion
Nortel Networks to acquire EPiCON for US$275 million to extend leadership in ASP market
Three new solutions provide improved performance and higher capacity
Service provider aims to offer extranets with performance guarantees
Redback's Subscriber Management System Selected by Metricom
Corning’s second quarter results expected to exceed estimates
Follows June 6 IPO filing
Will deliver multiple 10 Gbit/s channels over a distance of 1,450 km with no repeaters
Southampton Photonics plans 200 staff
Targets short reach - less than 100 meters - applications
Investment now total $120 million
Ericsson's New IP core routers provide operators with additional flexibility, scalability for packet backbone networks
CIENA further extends its leadership position in intelligent optical networking
InvestAmerica issued an RFI to selected vendors for the supply of optical equipment manufacturers
HighWave is to be listed on the Paris stock exchange on 19 June 2000
The two will work together on high-speed networking components, including Sonet and SDH chipsets.
Gives first info on upcoming products
3000 kilometers, 80 channels, 10 Gbit/s
Optical networking start-up recently closed its third round of financing, raising approximately $85 million from a cadre of financial and strategic investors.
CyberOptics expects second quarter earnings to exceed current estimates
Sirocco expands multi-service, multi-wavelength product line with high performance regional core switch
Deal will broaden reach into metro access market, Sycamore says.
Latest round brings total funding to $73M since company's start in 1998.
Vendor touts auto-provisioning router with intelligent provisioning and management capabilities.
Intros Cisco GSR Manager and Cisco Transport Manager for provisioning of IP services, optical networks.
Addition of intelligent MPLS routing allows carriers to deliver and enterprises to assign specific service levels for individual applications
NEC America Public Networks Group details next generation, all optical network solutions initiative
The new FiberPath Digital Access Platform makes fiber-to-the-home delivery of voice, video, and high-speed data a possibility for country suburban and city dwellers
Companies will intregrate products to target dial-up user market
Astral Point Communications announces ONset
Deal to push SDL into active components market closes at higher-than-expected price.
Ennovate announced Envoy 700, a small cost-effective frame relay and IP switching platform
Hitachi demontrates new products and capabilites at Supercomm 2000
Redfern Broadband Networks announces a wavelength management System for its metro area DWDM platform
Integrated optics pioneer exhibits new switches, splitters and modulators
New round brings fiber-to-the-home vendor's total financing to $89.7M
New interleavers, optical performance monitor, arrayed waveguide grating
Judge denies request by Alcatel for preliminary injunction
ADVA to acquire First Fibre
Ex-Global Crossing CEO to chair board of nationwide fiberoptic startup
Pays 88 million euros in stock for UK's First Fibre Ltd.
360networks and Carrier1 Announce Agreement To Expand International Networks
Lightchip introduces the Versalight product suite
Vitesse and Infineon announce OC-192 fiber optic link solution
Solstis will develop long distance optical transport systems
