$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
