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

Mellanox to buy silicon photonics developer Kotura

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), which focuses on interconnect for se...

Fibrenoire expands fiber-optic network with Montreal acquisitions

Canadian service provider Fibrenoire has expanded its network with the acquisition of Sociét...

Coriant unleashed as Marlin Equity Partners closes acquisition

Marlin Equity Partners says it has closed its acquisition of Nokia Siemens Networks’ Optical...

Avago strengthens 100G portfolio with CyOptics acquisition

Avago Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: AVGO) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire optical ...

AppliedMicro offloads TPACK to Altera, announces partnership

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (NASDAQ: AMCC), aka AppliedMicro, has agreed to sell its TPACK ...

Lightower completes Sidera Networks merger

Lightower Fiber Networks has closed its previously announced merger with fellow fiber-optic ...

Tech Valley Communications to acquire TelJet Longhaul to expand fiber-optic network

Fiber-optic network services provider Tech Valley Communications (TVC) says it has agreed to...

NeoPhotonics closes LAPIS Semiconductor Optical Business Unit acquisition

NeoPhotonics Corp. (NYSE: NPTN) has closed its acquisition of the semiconductor optical comp...

Ex-NSN optical division anticipates new start as Coriant

Marlin Equity Partners’ acquisition of the optical networks division of Nokia Siemens Networ...

Kaiam to acquire Gemfire assets

MEMS-based photonic integrated circuit company Kaiam Corp. says it has agreed to acquire GC ...

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

HuaweI: We're not quitting U.S.

Thu Apr 25 16:45:00 CDT 2013
Huawei would like you to know that while it has decided that it's unlikely to achieve rampant success in the U.S. carrier network equipment market,...

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Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Ethernet runs out of steam

Fri Feb 01 14:30:00 CST 2013
Big news on the higher-speed Ethernet front. No, not that work has begun on 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), thus setting the bar low, but rather the intention to go for 1.6 Terabit Ethernet (TbE) afterward. Yes, that’s right. After deca...

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