Ciena says the closure of the facility won't impact ongoing business -- the technology acquired has already been integrated into the CoreDirector and CN4200 platfroms, and Ciena believes ongoing development can continue at its other R&D facilities.
re: Ciena Cuts 200 Jobs as Sales PlummetJust to clarify - I was referencing the physical, geographical location -- so 'wave' goodbye to the R&D site that came on board with the Wavesmith acquisition.
re: Ciena Cuts 200 Jobs as Sales PlummetRay, One reason for shutting down that Acton, Mass R&D plant site is a decision made by Ciena to stop funding the Wavesmith product months ago. Given that, there clearly lies a hole in their product line and needs to be filled by some new technology. Ciena has previously laid off a lot of Wavesmith centric folks so this looks to be the completion of their direction and their need (hole) in their product line. Is there anything out there that Ciena could pick up (needs to be cheap) to fill this gap? Their stock price is down so I would think it would need to be a real good price if it were an acquisition. OG
re: Ciena Cuts 200 Jobs as Sales PlummetBill Leighton, as reported here in LR, is making decision to include shutting down to save their cash. You'd think SS would be ripe for picking to get access to that cash rather than the technology.
For a variety of reasons, they may need to park for awhile unless a major vendor or investor is willing to carry them. That vendor would have to see Soapstone as a critical component in their product solutions. Anyone out there in that position? Ciena doesn't really need it to win business.
I think I'd park the technology and save my cash... my sense is we're all going to retrench and focus on the growth areas that don't really need this, like Ethernet Fiber Access in the US rural unserved/underserved market. And find ways to haul all of that over the imbeded metro transport, which won't likey ever interact with something like an off box control plane.
Rumor has it some of the former wavesmith engineers have approached an original wavesmith investor along with an orginial wavesmith engineering manager to buy the wavesmith IP from ciena and to spin it out as an independent company.
In other news, millions await the debut of Microsoft's "Xbox," stamps cost 34 cents, gas costs $1.46 and did you SEE Britney Spears Superbowl half time show?!
re: Ciena Cuts 200 Jobs as Sales PlummetI remember working for them in the late 90's early 2000's Man what a big change. All good things must come to pass.
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Ciena says the closure of the facility won't impact ongoing business -- the technology acquired has already been integrated into the CoreDirector and CN4200 platfroms, and Ciena believes ongoing development can continue at its other R&D facilities.
Ray