$32M agreement expands Telseon's fiber footprint in key U.S. metro areas

10-Gigabit Ethernet MAC soft core available for licensing in Q3 2000, with a first release set for Q4 2000

Focal will deploy more than 70 Juniper M20 Internet backbone routers in its Focal Internet eXchanges (FIXs) across the country

Juniper to supply M20 Internet backbone routers to be deployed in FLAG Telecom's global IP backbone

Expands broadband capabilities into Europe with acquisition of France Electronique's telecom systems integration business

Cisco stock worth about $369 million will be exchanged for all outstanding shares of PixStream, a provider of digital video solutions

Digital Phase Analysis jitter and synchronization testing technology employs silicon germanium

Will pay Call-Net Enterprises US$162.5 million for dark fiber connecting more than 20 cities in N. America

Will invest $20M in PurePath Dynamic Spectral Equalizer and Wavelength Selective Switch manufacture

Zenastra is introducing four integrated passive optical components that will lead to larger scale integrated passive devices

Enables light to be effectively distributed by color or wavelength so customers can obtain and control the bandwidth they want

Federally mandated waiting period terminated as of August 28

Roger J. Heinz, a former senior VP at Lucent, has joined the company in the new position of vice president, Western region sales

Through an agreement with Digital Teleport, EPIK added 2,922 miles of dark fiber reaching customers in 10 major metropolitan areas

Three-phase optical platform peering program to serve as foundation for aggressive interoperability testing

Appointment of Terry Gibson as chief financial officer and Greg Partalis as vice president of sales

Uses WaveProcessorTM interleavers and AWGs from NEC Corporation to separate 160 DWDM channels

Electroholography(TM) is an all-optical solution for switching technology based on an innovation in the field of solid-state physics

Version 2.1 includes a robust assortment of features that benefit the space, speed, and functionality requirements of service providers

Allows for a wide spectrum of protection and restoration schemes for both OC48/STM-16 and OC-192/STM-64 services

The new transponder combines 16 separate OC3 Sonet channels into a single OC48 Sonet wavelength

Multichannel Wavelength Power Monitor promises high-performance monitoring to provide accurate optical power levels

Sheinbein is currently AT&T Vice President for Network Architecture and Development

Ciena has added rate-adaptive gigabit Ethernet technology to the LightWorks Toolkit™ for optical services

Connection Manager promises reduction in bandwidth provisioning time "from months to seconds"

Terawave's multispeed PON platform allows the 155- and 622-Mbit/s PON cards to be mixed in the Terawave OLTs (Optical Line Terminals)

The first non-intrusive tool for service providers to test and monitor wavelengths in their core optical networks

AMCC will issue 0.619 shares of its common stock for each common share of MMC stock

Features include non-blocking operation, reconfiguration time of less than 2ms, dynamic power control, and weighted multicasting

Aimed at putting up to 40 channels on a single fiber, the AWGs are currently available in 32 and 40 channels in 100 GHz spacing

The Sonet/SDH and the data multiplex products let carriers pack up to 16 lower-speed channels into a single wavelength

Partnership with OMM comes only a few weeks after Alcatel backed bubbles for its optical switch developments

Tsunami introduces a family of coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (CWDM) products and optical ASICs

Paves the way for optical channel monitoring to be widely deployed in existing equipment

Targets coarse wavelength=division multiplexing and optical ASICs

More than doubling its Connecticut manufacturing operations to approximately 190,000 square feet by yearend

It operates at data rates up to 1.25 Gbit/s on both 3.3V and 5.0V power supplies, at temperatures from -10C to +85C

Kleiner Perkins, Redwood Ventures invest in service provisioning startup

Sanjeev Newarikar heads up Cratos Networks, developing metro switch

Internet Initiative Japan will spend $30 Million on ONI's Dynamic Transport System

Third-generation LEAF fiber enables longer transmission distances, higher bit rates, and lower cost

Corvis had a net loss of $100.7M, or $2.51 per share, compared with a loss of $14.3M, or $0.55 per share, for the year ago quarter

160-channel system will ship in "early 2001"

Targets content distribution over the Net

1Q revenue was $14 million, up 62% from 1Q 2000; net earnings were up 117% to $1.8 million

Rick Bakosh, formerly of Tellabs, will lead the development of all sales opportunities for Corvis

U.S. Tier 2 service provider network equipment expenditures will grow 110% between now and 2004, from $3.1 billion to $6.5 billion

Tellamon Photonic Networks Inc. announces $31M (US$21M) financing round led by National Bank Financial

Deployment of PAIX neutral Internet exchange to six more cities in the U.S. and Europe by year's end

Protel to light optical Internet connecting 17 Mexican cities with Ciena's LightWorks products

Will fund further development of metro gear

"NetOctave" will target Internet appliances, switches, and servers

Plexus 9000 links Class 5 switches, DSLAMs, wireless, cable to optical backbones

Industry's first very high-speed silicon-germanium 68x69 differential crosspoint switch with full broadcast switching capability

Making software to counter denial-of-service attacks

New 40-Gbit/s Powershaper model will debut at NFOEC

Features low power consumption, small size

Subscriber access device offers eight 10/100-Mbit/s Ethernet ports

BTopenworld will deploy Riverstone RS 8600 switch routers in its Internet data centers

Jerry Fishman, President and CEO of Analog Devices joins the Board of Directors of ZettaCom

Startup develops optical integrated circuits

Cyras Systems Inc. announces closing of $150 million of 4 1/2%convertible subordinated notes in private offering

Device is designed to provide greater intelligence about the type of traffic that flows over an optical network

New single-mode optical fiber orders total $39M

Will offer 1-Gbit/s Internet service to businesses in San Diego and environs

Field trial of Corvis's 10-gig product conducted on Broadwing's 4,000-km Phoenix-to-Fort Worth optical loop

Foundry’s ServerIronXL is compatible with Checkpoint's VPN-1/FireWall-1 4.1 products.

Announces 23,000 square-foot facility, names VP of operations

ATM OC-48 SFF transceivers target the metro and WAN markets

Pro forma net income available to common shareholders for Q1 2001 was $14.2 million, $0.47 per share

Earnings per share are 33 cents; orders up 44%; net revenue up 28%

Combines power control and isolation switching in single component

Totals $891 million in quarter ending July 31

The unit, which employs about two hundred people, will become the key submarine network maintenance management center of Alcatel

Henrietta, N.Y., plant will employ 440 people and more than double company's capacity in fiber-based passive components

Net income for the quarter was $28.2 million, or $0.19 per diluted share

Deal will expand the Internet access capacity of the carrier's network

Tellabs CEO Michael J. Birck becomes chairman of the board of directors

Qwest selected ONI's Dynamic Transport System (DTS), an enhanced optical service delivery platform, for its metro buildout

Shareholders will get 2 new shares for every share they hold on Sept 5

Brain Jervis, ex Newbridge, takes over from founder Mike Rowan

Will work with Hitachi's Sonet gear in long-haul backbones

One 10-Gbit/s port and 12 1-Gbit/s ports on a single chip

Will move HQ from Miami to Michigan

In September outstanding shares will double to more than 283 million.

Multimillion-dollar strategic investment to finance rollout of U.S. and European optical gateway networks

ProtoDel gets investment from MTI

Darryl E. Ponder, former ADC Telecommunications executive, to lead company

NetProvision software suite to accelerate delivery of Yipes optical IP network services

The deal may be worth as much as $540 million

Will expand its fiber optic cable manufacturing capacity in Lexington County, S.C., adding an estimated 260 jobs

Access agreement covers 23 buildings, 2,000 tenants

"Chanserv" supports QOS guarantees on IP nets

Acquisition adds OC48 and OC192 Sonet transceivers and framers, as well as serial 10-Gbit/s Ethernet to Broadcom's stable of offerings

By providing ADSL compatibility, Marconi will give tesion the option of using copper as the final link for its Internet customers

En-Touch deploys Marconi fiber-to-the-curb solution to deliver next-generation multimedia services to Houston homeowners

New investors include Williams Communications

With the FUSION 5000 system, ACD.net will begin offering Michigan customers bundled broadband voice and data services

Telsens to buy KSCL to become Europe's biggest broadband billing software vendor

3-million lines of fiber-to-the-curb installed

Most recently General Manager at Xerox Corporation, Gregory Barnes will lead AFOP’s production and distribution operations

American Fiber Systems plans to lay 1.4 million miles of fiber in the next 5 years

Agilent leads third round of funding in router component startup

Will supply 80 channel DWDM and SDH network linking 32 German cities

360networks will provide Teleglobe 10-Gbit/s wavelength capacity on its 28,000-km network connecting the U.S., Bermuda, and S. America

The optical mux family of products resulting from this research will be called LightRider and will target metro-area DWDM equipment

The credit facility will support the build-out of the optical transport core of Pathnet's network

John Dickson, existing CEO of micro-electronics, gets the job

More than 30 companies set up committee to accelerate deployment

Scientific-Atlanta puts $8 million in the PON startup

Broadband wireless startup gets backing from Cisco, Dell, Goldman Sachs

The $850-million optic fiber network will extend about 8400 km from Brisbane to Perth; Lucent will supply the technology

Will head company resulting from merger of Phone.com and Software.com

The move enhances Agilent's solutions for next-generation network and equipment testing

Being able to lock on to each of 4 different wavelengths should make inventory reduction possible for multichannel system operators

Revenues were up 84 percent, and net losses declined to US$6.9 million, while the firm expanded its manufacturing facilities

Mory Ejabat, CEO of Zhone Technologies, joins optical Internet firm's board, following record $91-million funding round

DesignIQ is a fully automated system used to design and optimize optical nets for transport, access, metro ring, and cable

Exec VP of Corporate Marketing, Service Provider, and Consumer lines will head company in which Cisco has a minority investment

Patricia Russo, executive VP and CEO of the Service Provider Networks group, is leaving, as Lucent looks for a new COO

The passive optical add/drop system for metro DWDM applications is designed to give carriers flexibility in their network configurations

Novell will integrate Foundry ServerIron and BigIron switches into Novell Content Exchange, their new Web content acceleration service

The 32-channel optical solution, being deployed by a European provider, enables bidirectional DWDM over a single optical fiber

He will oversee global outsourcing expansion and lead the company's purchasing, quality assurance, and new product introduction efforts

Revenues increase 113% over Q2 1999 to $43.3M; fiber miles in service increase to 957,000; AboveNet buy helps boost net loss to $92M

Zaffire's UK office extends its Advanced Optical Services Network Architecture marketing to Europe, then to the Middle-East and Africa

AmeriNet's members will be among the first to take advantage of Marconi's E*NABLE broadband services for healthcare

Vinod Dham, Chairman, President, and CEO of Silicon Spice, who had led the Intel Pentium program, comes along with the deal

Yountz brings 23 years' experience with communications equipment companies; most recently, she was regional sales director at NetCore

The network, with speeds from DS3 and gigabit Ethernet to OC-192 and DWDM, is the country's first switched optical Internet exchange

Under the agreement, the Redback Subscriber Management System will be deployed into SmarTone's fixed-wireless LMDS network

The S3076 and S3078 multirate chips promise substantially reduced jitter generation, creating greater design margin for customers

The laser diode delivers a bandwidth of 2.5 Gbit/s, is robust enough for commercial use, and lends itself to high-volume manufacture

Nearly 100 residential sites in Ephrata, Wash., will trial Gigabit Ethernet broadband connectivity from World Wide Packets Inc.

The service provider's 8M-share stake in Corvis's IPO follows their purchase of $200 million in Corvis optical networking equipment

Lucent is dividing its optical networking group into core and metropolitan networking units

The purchase price for the local carrier was approximately $15 million in cash and 3.5 million shares of FiberNet common stock.

CSL to sell and support the company's optical diagnostic and monitoring equipment in the U.K., Ireland, and Benelux

Ericsson's AXI 520 IP Backbone Routers connect Internet customers' servers to Cable & Wireless HKT's [email protected] data centers

R. Clark Harris is a partner at NorthEast Ventures and had previously been president of Uniphase Telecommunication Products

360networks will provide France Telecom and Intelig 10-Gbit/s capacity on its subsea cable connecting the U.S. and S.America

Acquisition adds access platform that interconnects copper and fiber optic networks to Terayon's portfolio of broadband systems

Marconi will incorporate CrossKeys Resolve software into its new ServiceOn Accord, providing an SLA solution to service providers

Trillium will join Intel's Network Processing Group, and its software will become an integral part of Intel's Internet Exchange architecture

The service, directly mapped to DWDM optical nets, allows carriers to provide leased line and optical services from a common platform

The UK-based optical components manufacturer has opened offices in Boston, California, and New Jersey

Kymata claims the addition to the company's line of opto-electronic integrated circuits dramatically reduces system time to market