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What a fiber optic company does behind the scenes is often as important as a new product announcement. Here you’ll find fiber optic company announcements of partnerships, personnel changes, facility expansion (and contraction), and more. You’ll also find comment on such fiber optic company events.

Companies NEWS & PRODUCTS

Cbeyond extends reach via FiberLight, Zayo

Network and cloud services provider Cbeyond (NASDAQ: CBEY) has announced partnerships with a...

DAX, NetSocket to supply JDSU PacketPortal applications

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) says that DAX Technologies Corp. and NetSocket will supply ap...

For license: Process for 1.02 index of refraction fiber

Jim Bell, a gentleman with no background in fiber optics – or any kind of optics, for that m...

RUSNANO invests in NeoPhotonics for Russian market expansion

RUSNANO, a Moscow-based investment firm, has invested $39.8 million in optical module and su...

New leadership in place at Berk-Tek

There’s a new look at the top of the executive roster at Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company. Phil Tr...

CommScope reorganizes customer segment management

Cabling and communications systems supplier CommScope, Inc. has reorganized its business uni...

NEC Networks & System Integration to resell Tellabs 7100 Packet Optical Transport System in Japan

Tellabs (NASDAQ: TLAB) has reached a deal with NEC Networks & System Integration Corp. (...

Hitachi Cable merges U.S. operations

Hitachi Cable, Ltd. says it has merged its holdings in North America into a single entity ca...

Tellabs shuffles board

Optical systems vendor Tellabs (NASDAQ: TLAB) says it will appoint Vincent D. Kelly and Greg...

Contract expires but no strike yet at AT&T

The midnight Saturday, April 7 deadline for contract extension talks has come and gone, but ...

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The Lightwave Blog

Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

Oclaro 2Q12 earnings call tidbits

February 2, 2012
Oclaro Chairman and CEO Alain Couder and CFO Jerry Turin discussed the company's results of the company's fiscal second quarter 2012 with analysts ...

Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Swimming in 100GbE’s alphabet soup

January 11, 2012
Recently, there has been a lot of confusion around the area of next-generation 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) development and who is doing what. Giv...

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