MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Mergers and acquisitions are an important tool for fiber optic company executives. They can be used to expand product portfolios, gain market share, remove a competitor, or pay off investors. In the larger scheme, industry consolidation through M&A and other means remains a Wall Street recommendation.

Mergers & Aquisitions NEWS & PRODUCTS

Ixia to acquire Anue Systems

Network test equipment vendor Ixia says it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquir...

Agilent acquires Centellax T&M business

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Centellax Inc. have signed a definitive agreement fo...

Vodafone to acquire Cable & Wireless

Vodafone Europe B.V. has agreed to acquire Cable & Wireless Worldwide plc (CWW) for appr...

Hitachi Cable merges U.S. operations

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

Fujikura to acquire WSS vendor Nistica

Fujikura Ltd. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Nistica. Based in ...

Private equity firm Doughty Hanson to acquire Eurofiber

Private equity firm Doughty Hanson & Co. says it will acquire Eurofiber, the owner of th...

Confident Oclaro, Opnext savor future

One anticipates the participants in any announced merger will publicly express confidence in...

EMCORE sells VCSEL-based product lines to Sumitomo

EMCORE Corp. (NASDAQ: EMKR) and Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations USA, Inc. (SEDU) have a...

Oclaro, Opnext to merge

The optical component and subsystem space finally has seen the major merger observers have d...

Broadcom to acquire PON chip vendor BroadLight

Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) says it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BroadLigh...

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

Oclaro 2Q12 earnings call tidbits

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

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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