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Photonics.com - March 2002
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China Broadband Joins Corning Venture in Chengdu
CALGARY, Alberta, March 29 -- China Broadband Corp. said it has signed an Internet service agreement to provide data and value-added services to Corning's joint venture with Chengdu CCS Optical Fibre...
CardioFocus Wins Clearance for Diode Laser
NORTON, Mass., March 29 -- CardioFocus Inc. has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its diode laser for use in surgery. This laser is used by clinicians with the accompanying Optimaze surgical...
Microvision, Omega Sign Reseller Agreement
BOTHELL, Wash., March 29 -- Microvision has signed a distribution reseller agreement with Omega Systems Inc. in which Omega Systems will resell Microvision's Nomad wearable display to customers in...
DALSA Announces Definitive Agreement to Aquire CCD
WATERLOO, Ontario, March 28 -- DALSA Corp. announced it has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire the CCD Image Sensors Business of Royal Philips Electronics, located in Eindhoven,...
Imaging Diagnostic Signs Agreement With Schering
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 28 -- Imaging Diagnostic Systems Inc. announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with Schering AG, Germany, to evaluate the advantages of new fluorescence dyes...
GSI Restructures Kanata Operations
KANATA, Ontario, March 28 -- GSI Lumonics Inc. plans to consolidate its Systems business and its Laser Components business by the end of the fiscal year. With the restructuring, the Systems Business...
New Hybrid Solar Cells Combine Nanotech with Plastics
BERKELEY, Calif., March 28 -- A new generation of solar cells that combines nanotechnology with plastic electronics has been launched with the development of a semiconductor-polymer photovoltaic...
Ciena to Cut Workforce by 650
LINTHICUM, Md., March 28 -- Ciena Corp. is cutting about 650 jobs, or 22 percent of its work force. The cuts follow a reduction of about 400 jobs announced in February. The company said the latest...
Versatel Wins Two Fiber Network Contracts
AMSTERDAM, March 28 -- Versatel Telecom International NV has signed fiber optic network deals worth 1.4 million euros with a Dutch container and security company. Versatel said the deal is with...
Solectron to Produce Gear for Lucent
MILPITAS, Calif., March 28 -- Solectron Corp. has reached a three-year agreement to produce optical networking equipment for Lucent Technologies. The contract would generate about $2 billion in sales...
Growing Wire and Cable Expenditures Reported
PARSIPPANY, N.J., March 28 -- While the telecommunications industry is mired in a vicious downturn, suppliers of wire and cable to the industry will realize continued growth through 2006. The telcos...
Marconi and Telecom Italia Breathe New Life Into Existing Fiber
PITTSBURGH, March 27 -- Marconi and Telecom Italia announced they have transmitted dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) over dispersion-shifted fiber, quadrupling the number of wavelengths an...
Forecast: DGE Market Will Reach $451 Million by 2006
SAN MATEO, Calif. March 27 -- The global commercial consumption of dynamic gain equalizers (DGE) standalone plus integrated components in 2001 was $12 million and is forecasted to reach $451 million...
VPIsystems, Apollo to Offer Integrated Design Software
ANAHEIM, Calif., and HOLMDEL, N.J., March 27 -- VPIsystems, provider of product and network lifecycle management software, announced at OFC 2002 that it has partnered with Apollo Photonics, which...
Ambroseo Suceeding Couillaud as Coherent CEO
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 27 -- Coherent Inc. said its COO, John Ambroseo, will succeed Bernard Couillaud as president and chief executive of the laser product maker on Oct. 1. Couillard will become...
Kollmorgen Electro-Optical Awarded $12.4M Navy Contract
NORTHAMPTON, Mass., March 27 -- The US Navy recently awarded a $12.4 million contract to Kollmorgen Electro-Optical Div., a subsidiary of the Danaher Corp., for the delivery of nine MK46 Mod 1...
Opsys Develops Dendrimer OLEDs
LONDON, March 26 -- High-efficiency organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) using pioneering dendrimer materials have been developed by scientists sponsored by display technology developer Opsys, which...
Axsys and Loctite to Study Photonic Attach Methods
ROCKY HILL, Conn., March 26 -- Axsys Technologies Inc., developer of micro-positioning and precision optical systems, and Loctite Corp., a manufacturer of high-performance adhesives, sealants and...
NP Photonics, Spectra-Physics Develop Micro Fiber Amplifier Products
TUCSON, Ariz., March 26 -- NP Photonics and Spectra-Physics, a Thermo Electron business, said they have introduced the first miniaturized optical fiber based amplifier products for...
Lucent and Corning to Enhance 40G DWDM Reach
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 26 -- Lucent Technologies and Corning Inc. announced at OFC 2002 that they are collaborating to dramatically improve the performance of optical long-haul systems with optical...
Bell Labs Claims Data Delivery Record
NEW YORK, March 25 -- Bell Labs, the research arm of Lucent Technologies Inc., said it has doubled the distance and speed at which data can be sent over long haul telecommunications networks. Bell...
Axsys, Palomar Merge Photonics Marketing Plans
ROCKY HILL, Conn., March 25 -- Axsys Technologies Inc. and Palomar Technologies Inc. have signed a strategic marketing agreement under which they will jointly market and develop in-line automated...
Cree Wins Laser, LED Contract for Detecting Anthrax
DURHAM, NC, March 22 -- Cree Inc. said it had won a government contract to develop light-emitting diodes and laser diodes for use in systems that could detect the presence of anthrax and other...
Mark IV, Cambridge Display Sign LEP Development Agreement
AMHERST, NY, March 22 -- Mark IV Industries Inc. and Cambridge Display Technology, owner of the fundamental intellectual property for LEPs, announced they have signed an agreement to collaborate...
France Telecom Reports $7.3 B Loss
PARIS, March 22 -- France Telecom has reported a loss of $7.33 billion in 2001. The loss of 8.28 billion euros marked the second-biggest loss ever posted by a French company, behind the loss of 13.6...
Alcatel, JDS Uniphase, Nortel Ink Multisource Agreement
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 21 -- Alcatel Optronics, JDS Uniphase and Nortel Networks announced at OFC 2002 a multisource agreement (MSA) for 960 to 980 nm pump lasers in uncooled mini-DIL packaging....
OCF 2002 Attendance Exceeds Expectations
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 21 -- An estimated 32,000 attendees showed up for the opening of OFC 2002, according to OFC management. That's slightly less than last year's 38,000, a reflection of the...
Unitek Miyachi Sells Laser Workstation To Chahaya
MONROVIA, Calif., March 21 -- Unitek Miyachi Corp., Axia Systems Div., has received an order for their SX1000 Auto-Align Laser Welding System from Chahaya Optronics Inc. The acquisition of the SX1000...
Premier Laser Systems Auctions Off Laser and IP Inventory
MISSION VIEJO, Calif., March 20 -- Premier Laser Systems is auctioning off its assets as part of a bankruptcy process. This auction includes an expansive inventory of: lasers, parts, delivery...
Metrologic Wins $1.9 Million Contract for Parcel Scanning, Tracking System
BLACKWOOD, NJ, March 20 -- Metrologic Instruments Inc. has been awarded a $1.9 million contract for the iQ180 camera-based information acquisition system from a Fortune 500 company. In 2001,...
Mitel Networks Connects Arctic Winter Games Venues
OTTAWA, Canada, March 20 -- Mitel Networks has connected five athletic venues via fiber optic cable or copper trunking for the Arctic Winter Games, being held this week in Nunavut. Mitel, along with...
Avanex Buying Oplink for $283 Million
FREMONT, Calif., March 20 -- Avanex Corp. has agreed to acquire Oplink Corp. in a stock deal worth about $283 million. The companies said that the combined company, to be known as Avanex, will be...
Optiwave Announces Software Agreement with Corning
OTTAWA, Canada, March 19 -- Optiwave Corp., optical simulation software developer for the fiber optics telecommunications industry, and Corning Inc. have entered into an OEM agreement whereby...
Furukawa Electric and Mitsui Chemical Join Forces to Produce High Power 980 nm Laser Chips
CLINTON, N.J., March 19 -- Fitel Technologies, Inc., and its parent company, the Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd, announces the development of a joint venture with Mitsui Chemical to produce high power...
Tektronix to Acquire Profile
BEAVERTON, Ore., March 19 -- Tektronix Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Profile Optische Systeme GmbH, an optical component test and measurement firm. Profile will be integrated with...
Chipmaker Funds Cymer EUV Research
SAN DIEGO, March 19 -- Cymer Inc. said that a major US chipmaker has provided funding aimed at speeding Cymer's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source research and development efforts. The first...
Emcore Acquires Tecstar's Applied Solar Division
SOMERSET, N.J., March 18 -- Emcore Corp. has completed the acquisition of the Applied Solar Div. of Tecstar Inc. Emcore said the acquisition will help it penetrate the satellite communications sector...
New Focus to Cut Jobs, Product Lines
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18 -- New Focus Inc. said it will cut its workforce by more than a third and exit certain businesses to reduce fixed manufacturing costs and quarterly losses. The company said...
ILX Lightwave, Palomar to Market Test and Assembly Systems
BOZEMAN, Montana, March 18 -- ILX Lightwave and Palomar Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of automated high-precision assembly systems for broadband communications, have formed a strategic alliance...
Superconducting Nanowires Assist in Study of Phase Transistors
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 18 -- By creating superconducting nanowires using carbon nanotube molecules, researchers at the University of Illinois (UI) are investigating just how small a wire can become...
Sorrento and Marubeni Deploy Metro DWDM Ring in Japan
SAN DIEGO and TOKYO, March 18 -- Sorrento Networks, supplier of end-to-end, intelligent optical networking solutions for metro and regional applications, and Marubeni Network Systems (MNET), a...
TeraSpan Announces Alberta deployments
VANCOUVER, March 18 -- TeraSpan Networks, an Ignition Point company, announced it has completed installation of two private fiber optic networks in the town of Cochrane, its first deployment in...
Internet Photonics Licenses AT&T Labs Control Plane Research
SHREWSBURY, N.J. & MARLBOROUGH, Mass., March 15 -- Internet Photonics Inc. announced an agreement with the research arm of AT&T Labs to license its software that includes restoration capability...
Polatis Announces 2nd Funding Round
CAMBRIDGE, UK, March 15 -- Polatis, developer of ultralow-loss photonic switches, has secured its second-round funding, raising $8.4 million. The investment round was led by Prelude Trust in addition...
Lasers: When a Tape Measurer Just Isn't Enough
ITHACA, N.Y., March 15 -- Apparel researchers at Cornell University are using a 3D body scanner to measure more than 300,000 "body data points" on women volunteers in Ithaca and Manhattan. Women...
UV Lights and LEDs Will Help Sustain Mars Colonists
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 15 -- Energy-saving ways to light food crops in space using vertical strips of colored, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will be investigated by researchers who are developing...
Essex, Fiberspace to Market WDM Technology
COLUMBIA, Md., March 15 -- Essex Corp. and Fiberspace Inc., of Woodland Hills, Calif., have signed an agreement to co-market the Essex hyperfine WDM technology and Fiberspace's Gridlocker laser...
Avnet Acquires Gamma Optronik
PHOENIX, March 14 -- Avnet Inc. has acquired Sweden-based Gamma Optronik, a privately owned distributor of photonics products in the Nordic region. Gamma will be operated as a part of Avnet's BFi...
TRW, Sandia Report Gains in High-Energy EUV Lithography
ST. CHARLES, Mo., March 14 -- Cutting Edge Optronics Inc., a division of TRW, and Sandia National Laboratories, a member of the Virtual National Laboratory, said they have successfully demonstrated...
Rockwell Scientific Obtains Laser Eyewear License
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., March 14 -- Rockwell Scientific Co. (RSC) has obtained a license from THALES Optics Ltd., of North Wales, UK, for thin-film optical coating technology to be used in its laser...
In Nature, UB Team Reports Infrared-to-Visible Upconverted Stimulated Emission
BUFFALO, N.Y., March 14 -- The first observation of a phenomenon called stimulated emission by direct three-photon excitation, which occurs when three photons of lower energy are simultaneously...
CableRunner and GECKO Announce Partner Agreement
BOCA RATON, Fla., March 14 -- CableRunner NA, a public/private business venture owned in part and operated by the City of Vienna, Austria, Water and Sewer Department (Wien Kanal Abwassertechnologien...
BT AND Lucent Launch Global Optical Transport Network
LONDON, March 14 -- British Telecommunications PLC (BT) and Lucent Technologies announced the implementation of a high-capacity optical network designed to support BT's growing international...
Agere Starts Volume Production of 3-D MEMS Optical Switch Components
ALLENTOWN, Pa., March 13 -- Communications components producer Agere Systems said it is the first company to start volume production of a 3D microelectromechanical systems (3D MEMS) optical switch...
Sonera Opens Broadband Network to Moscow
HELSINKI, Finland, March 13 -- Sonera has opened the first dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) broadband network from Moscow to St.Petersburg and further through Finland to western Europe....
Thermo Electron to Acquire CRS Robotics Corp.
BURLINGTON, Ontario, March 13 -- CRS Robotics Corp. announced that Thermo Electron Corp. proposes to acquire for cash all the issued and outstanding shares of CRS Robotics (including all shares...
Carleton University Researchers Form Photonics Team
OTTAWA, Ontario, March 13 -- Carleton University researchers have banded together to form a multidisciplinary photonics research team called the Carleton Photonics Group. Headed by John Armitage,...
Fraunhofer Institute Buys AIXTRON System
AACHEN/FREOBURG, Germany, March 12 -- The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics announced it has bought a new AIXTRON 200/4RF-S system for developing nitride materials for...
Spectra-Physics, NP Photonics to Produce Amplifiers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 12 -- Spectra-Physics and NP Photonics have entered into a joint product development agreement with the aim of producing a new class of highly miniaturized, optical...
Azanda Network Devices Secures Series B Funding
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 12 -- Azanda Network Devices, a developer of silicon products for managing traffic in network core, edge and enterprise markets, announced it has secured $19 million in its...
No Bonuses for Corning Top Management
CORNING, N.Y., March 11 -- Corning Inc. said its top executive did not receive bonuses for 2001 because of the telecommunications slowdown that hurt much of its business. Minimum financial goals as...
NYSE Suspends Trading in Williams Communications
NEW YORK, March 11 -- The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has suspended trading in Williams Communications Group Inc. stock and said it will seek to delist the company because of its low trading...
Visionics Wins Army Sub-Contract for Wearable ID System
JERSEY CITY, N.J., March 11 -- Visionics Corp. has been awarded a subcontract from the MicroOptical Engineering Corp. under its contract with the US Army for work in the Digital Military Police (MP)...
Optical Switch Installs Automated Lithography System at JDS
RICHARDSON, Texas, March 11 -- Optical Switch Corp. (OSC) said it has installed its Model PC2 high-resolution lithography system at JDS Uniphase, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The interference...
Laser-Raman Imaging System Dates Earliest Fossils
LOS ANGELES, March 8 -- A unique laser-Raman imaging system helped scientists substantiate the biological origin of the earliest known cellular fossils at 3.5 billion years ago, as reported this week...
Displaytech to Focus on Viewfinders
LONGMONT, Colo., March 8 -- Displaytech Inc., which makes ferroelectric liquid crystal display products, said it has reduced its workforce to 50 people to dedicate more resources to viewfinder...
Steady Rise Forecast for Fiber Optic Isolator Market
San Mateo, Calif., March 8 -- The global consumption value of fiber optic component isolators will rise steadily, from $296.3 million in 2001 to $672.7 million in 2006, according to ElectroniCast's...
Communications Companies Join Forces To Develop 10-Gigabit Module
COSTA MESA, Calif., March 8 -- Ten leading communications companies have formed a common specification for multisourcing application-agnostic, ultrasmall form factor, 10 Gb/s modules, or XFP modules....
China Approves Luminous Networks Metro Platform
CUPERTINO, Calif., March 8 -- China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has certified Luminous' PacketWave access platform for metropolitan area networks. Luminous is the first company with a...
City Signal Communications Closes $17 M Equity Round
MALVERN, Penn., March 7 -- City Signal Communications (CSC), which delivers flexible metropolitan dark fiber networks in US mid-Atlantic and midwest markets, announced it has closed a $17 million...
Siros VCSEL Plans Backed
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 7 -- Siros Technologies Inc. has completed a $17 million funding round from new and existing investors. Siros will use the funding to commercialize its high-power vertical...
Sabeus Photonics Inc. Receives Equipment Financing
LOS ANGELES, March 7 -- Optical device manufacturer Sabeus Photonics Inc. announced it received a $2 million equipment financing facility from Silicon Valley Bank for the purchase of equipment and...
Colombian Telecom Plans $47 Million Expansion
BOGOTA, Colombia, March 7 -- Colombia's second-largest telecommunications firm, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB), will invest $47.1 million in 2002 to install fixed lines beyond the...
Flextronics Photonics, Silicon Light Machines to Deliver Optical Technology Products
SINGAPORE and SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 7 -- Flextronics Photonics, a business unit of Flextronics, and Silicon Light Machines, an optical subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor, announced a...
Meikle Automation Acquires EMS Automation
KITCHENER, Ontario, March 7 -- Meikle Automation Inc., a leader in manufacturing equipment automation, announced it has formalized an acquisition of Electro-Mechanical Specialties Inc. of Sanford,...
SUSS MicroTec, Fraunhofer Institute Join on Wafer Testing
MUNICH, Germany, March 7 -- SUSS MicroTec Test Systems GmbH has signed a cooperation agreement with Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) to define and evaluate technologies...
Silicon Access Networks Raises $39 Million
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 7 -- Silicon Access Networks announced it has secured $39 million from new and existing investors in its fourth round of funding. The investment will be used to continue the...
Color Them Red: The Universe is Beige
BALTIMORE, March 7 -- The universe has come in for a color correction, and home decorators may approve. Astronomers who announced in January (see...
Orchid BioSciences and Thermo Electron to Develop Genotyping Products
PRINCETON, N.J., and WALTHAM, Mass., March 6 -- Orchid BioSciences Inc. and Thermo Electron Corp. announced they have signed technology agreements to develop and market next-generation genotyping...
OSI, Imagis to Combine Face-Recognition, Security Products
HAWTHORNE, Calif., & VANCOUVER, Canada, March 6 -- OSI Systems Inc. and Imagis Technologies Inc. announced they will enter into a strategic alliance, pending a definitive agreement, for the design,...
Pratt & Whitney Awards Engine Contract to Dutch Laser Firm
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., March 6 -- Pratt & Whitney has awarded a contract to Nederlands Centrum voor Laser Research (NCLR) to demonstrate an advanced excimer laser drilling system on the F135...
Intel Expands Optical Networking Business
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 6 -- Intel Corp. is expanding its optical networking business to include photonics design and manufacturing. The move is part of Intel's long-term strategy to grow its...
Williams Restructures $1.4 Billion Debt
TULSA, Okla., March 6 -- Williams Cos. will restructure a $1.4 billion debt obligation, ending the possibility that it could have been forced to pay the entire amount in 60 days. The company said it...
Study Shows Optical Ethernet Cost Savings
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & BOSTON, March 6 -- Network Strategy Partners, management consultants to the networking industry, and Atrica Inc., provider of optical Ethernet equipment for the metro networking...
Lightscape Platforms to Expand China Unicom Network
PETAH TIKVA, Israel, March 5 -- Lightscape Networks, an ECI Telecom company, has signed a contract with a subsidiary of China Unicom, China's second largest mobile communications company, to expand...
Alcatel Awarded $45 Million Terrestrial and Undersea Optics Contract
DALLAS, March 5 -- Alcatel has been awarded a $45 million contract by the Sea-Me-We 3 consortium to upgrade the network to support 10 Gb/s transmission, representing a 40 percent capacity increase....
Plastic Logic, CDT to Cooperate in Polymer Organic Electronics
CAMBRIDGE, UK, March 5 -- Plastic Logic and Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) have signed an agreement to cooperate in polymer organic electronics. Plastic Logic develops electronic transistor...
Optical Network Links Visualization Centers
SAN DIEGO, March 5 -- Two California universities, a California institute for science and innovation and four California-based companies today unveiled a visualization complex dedicated to earth and...
Nichia Reports Tenfold Boost in LED Power
TOKYO, March 5 -- Nichia Corp. said it has developed high-power indium gallium nitride LEDs with ten times the power of current devices. According to the company, the LEDs overcome low power...
Alcatel Awarded $45M Terrestrial and Undersea Optics Contract
DALLAS, March 5 -- Alcatel has been awarded a $45 million contract by the Sea-Me-We 3 consortium to upgrade the network to support 10 Gb/s transmission, representing a 40 percent capacity increase....
Spectroscopy Technology Takes Entrepreneur Award
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 4 -- If the winners of Purdue University's 15th annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition have their way, their laser-based spectroscopy technology will test...
TI Bids to Acquire German Telecom Maker
FRANKFURT, March 4 -- German telecom equipment group Condat AG said Texas Instruments has made an acquisition offer of 108 million euros (US $93 million). TI is offering Condat shareholders 12 euros...
Photronics Plans Major Chinese Expansion
SHANGHAI, China, March 4 -- Photronics Inc. has signed a land grant agreement with officials from the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park Development Corp. The company established Photronics International...
PerkinElmer Reorganizes Optoelectronics Unit; Cuts Staff
BOSTON, March 4 -- PerkinElmer Inc. announced it has reorganized its Optoelectronics unit and will reduce its workforce by approximately 500 and take a restructuring charge of approximately $10 to...
Hitachi to Reorganize Telecom Operations and Cut Work Force
TOKYO, March 4 -- As part of its restructuring, Hitachi said it will lower its overall workforce by approximately 20,930 (15,100 in Japan and 5,830 overseas) by the end of June. Hitachi said it will...
IntelCore Secures $7.5 M Financing With Comerica
BOSTON, March 1 -- IntelCore Technologies Inc. announced it has secured $7.5 million of additional financing with Comerica, a leading financial services company, bringing the company’s overall...
Sichuan Telecom Deploys Lucent Optic Technology
MURRAY HILL, N.J., March 1 -- Sichuan Telecom, China's leading provider of telecommunications services in Sichuan province, has purchased Lucent's optical transport system and switch, the LambdaUnite...
Hitachi to Cut Work Force and CPT Business
TOKYO, March 1 -- As part of its restructuring, Hitachi said it will lower its overall workforce by approximately 20,930 (15,100 in Japan and 5,830 overseas) by the end of June. In another step,...
QED Technologies MRF Finishing Machine Expands Capabilities of Coastal Optical
Installation of a QED Technologies Q22-X MRF Finishing machine has expanded manufacturing capabilities at Coastal Optical Systems, Inc. "The QED technology improves our ability to both deliver...
Ray Malcom appointed Sales & Marketing Manager for Coastal Optical Systems
Coastal Optical Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Ray Malcom as Sales and Marketing Manager. In this new position, Ray will have primary responsibility for sales and marketing...
Rockwell Collins, Boeing to Develop HUDs
PORTLAND, Ore., March 1 -- Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics has signed a contract with The Boeing Co. to develop dual head-up display (HUD) systems for the US Air Force C-130 avionics modernization...
Advanced Optics Electronics Gets Display Contract
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 1 -- Advanced Optics Electronics Inc. said it has finalized a contract for the sale of three flat-panel displays, for a total sales price of $1,485,000, to Outdoor Media-USA...
Army to Buy DRS Infrared Systems
PARSIPPANY, N.J., March 1 -- DRS Technologies Inc. has received a $28 million multiyear contract from the US Army, valued at $155 million including options, to provide horizontal technology...
Agility Communications to Enter Japanese Market
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 1 -- Agility Communications Inc., provider of widely tunable lasers for the metro-core, switching and long-haul markets, has announced a strategic partnership with Nissho...
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