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Metromedia Fiber Launches Intracity Networks in Boston, Houston, San Francisco Apr 10, 2000 — NEW YORK, Apr. 10 -- Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. has launched intracity fiber optic networks in Boston, Houston and downtown San Francisco. The new networks, which connect the major business districts within the three metropolitan areas, expand the company's reach to eight of the nation's largest 15 cities. These three new operational networks underscore Metromedia Fiber's continued aggressive expansion of a truly private and secure optical and Internet infrastructure in key metropolitan...

Vicon Fiber Optics Writes Off Dot Com Investment Apr 6, 2000 — PELHAM MANOR, N.Y., Apr. 6 -- Vicon Fiber Optics reported that it will take a one-time charge of $500,000 against 1999 earnings on a capital investment it made in Another Universe.com in 1998. Vicon said this charge comprised the bulk of its...

FiberCore Reports Record Sales Apr 5, 2000 — CHARLTON, Mass., Apr. 5 -- FiberCore Inc., a manufacturer of optical fiber and preforms, has reported record sales of $12,126,000 for the year ended December 31, 1999. The company said sales increased 48 percent over 1998's results of...

Lawrence Berkeley Labs Turn toFiber Optic Gigabit Ethernet Mar 31, 2000 — BERKELEY, Calif., Mar. 31 -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory -- home to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Advanced Light Source accelerator, and a number of other advanced research facilities -- is upgrading its...

Lucent to Supply Chinese with $145 Million in Optical Systems, Fiber Cable Mar 29, 2000 — BEIJING, Mar. 29 -- Lucent Technologies has signed contracts to supply $145-million worth of optical networking systems and fiber cable to two customers in China. Under an agreement with CITIC Pacific Ltd. valued at more than $80 million...

Stocker & Yale Purchases Telecom Fiber Drawing Tower Mar 27, 2000 — SALEM, N.H., Mar. 27 -- Stocker & Yale, Inc. has acquired a fiber drawing tower capable of producing telecom-grade specialty optical fiber. The company expects the tower -- which was purchased from Brown University for an undisclosed amount --...

Energy, Telecom Firms CreateSuper-Regional Fiber Optics Company Mar 23, 2000 — WASHINGTON, Mar. 23 -- Six energy and telecommunications companies have joined to create America's Fiber Network LLC (AFN), a super-regional high-speed fiber optics company with a network of more than 7,000 route miles, or 140,000 fiber miles. The...

C-COR.net, Finisar to Co-DevelopAdvanced Fiber Products Mar 21, 2000 — STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Mar. 21 -- C-COR.net and Finisar Corp. have agreed to jointly develop fiber optics-based products for active or passive broadband hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) networks. The companies said these products can be deployed throughout HFC...

DQE Communications, Penn Telecom Ink Fiber Leasing Agreement Mar 17, 2000 — PITTSBURGH, Mar. 17 -- DQE Inc. subsidiary DQE Communications reported that Penn Telecom, an integrated communications provider, has leased fiber on its metropolitan fiber optic backbone. The telecommunications firm signed the 15-year lease, worth...

Metromedia Fiber to Provide Cogentwith Optical Internet Infrastructure Feb 29, 2000 — NEW YORK, Feb. 29 -- In a 20-year agreement valued at over $100 million, Metromedia Fiber Network is to provide private optical networks in key North American markets to Cogent Communications, a venture-backed Internet access provider to...

Metromedia Fiber AwardsOptical Backbone Contract to Nortel Feb 18, 2000 — NEW YORK, Feb. 18 -- Metromedia Fiber Network has awarded Nortel Networks a contract with an estimated value of $250 million over three years to build its optical network backbone. Metromedia Fiber already uses Nortel's OPTera Metro technology...

Fiber Amplifiers: Moving Up in the Wavelength World Feb 1, 2000 — New fiber amplifiers provide a simple, direct path for increasing system capacity: expansion into the L-band.

Corning, Gore and Siecor ShowMultimode Fiber at 1 and 10 Gb/s Jan 19, 2000 — CORNING, N.Y., Jan. 19 -- Corning Inc., W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. and Siecor reported that in recent tests, a prototype multimode fiber demonstrated serial transmission at both 1 and 10 Gb/s. The test employed Corning multimode fiber and...

Metromedia Fiber, Allegiance Telecom Sign Third Dark-Fiber Lease Jan 4, 2000 — NEW YORK, Jan. 4 -- Metromedia Fiber Network has signed a third dark-fiber lease agreement with Allegiance Telecom. Metromedia Fiber estimates the agreement to be worth approximately $130 million over its 20-year life. Previously, Allegiance...

Fiber Optics: Integrated Optics Jan 1, 2000 — Functionality and integration are rising, while cost and size are dropping to satisfy communications needs. Integrated optics products that are finding widespread commercial application include lithium niobate modulators and passive waveguide...

Fiber Optics: Transmitting Photons Jan 1, 2000 — Bandwidth fever drives technology trends toward flexible, all-optical networking solutions. The number of companies claiming to be specialists in market forecasting for fiber optic communications should provide a clue to the immense size of...

Optical Fiber Jan 1, 2000 — New fibers will bring out the best in long-haul and metropolitan network components. As the technology of transmitting and receiving light continues to evolve and improve, so will the technology of designing new and improved optical fibers. A...

Williams Communications, Worldwide Fiber Sign Deal Dec 21, 1999 — TULSA, Okla., Dec. 21 -- Williams Communications Inc. announced that its network unit has signed an agreement to sell services and fiber capacity to Worldwide Fiber Inc., in a deal valued at $26.5 million. Worldwide Fiber plans to use the...

Digital Lightwave Gets Order for Fiber Test Upgrade Dec 9, 1999 — CLEARWATER, Fla., Dec. 9 -- Digital Lightwave Inc. has received a $1.2-million order from Technology Rentals & Services (TRS) to upgrade its portable Network Information Computers (NICs) to include high-speed OC-48 testing capabilities. A...

FiberTel to Acquire Australian Network Nov 30, 1999 — PERTH, Australia, Nov. 30 -- Telecommunications investment company FiberTel has announced plans to merge with Amcom Telecommunications, a high-speed data telecommunications developer based in Western Australia, in a transaction valued at almost...

Polaroid Licenses Fiber Optic Technologyto NEL and Kymata Nov 29, 1999 — CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 29 -- Polaroid Corp. has licensed a key patent used in arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexer products to NTT Electronics Corp. -- NEL -- and Kymata Ltd. Polaroid described its technology for an integrated planar optical...

Global Fiber to Develop Mediterranean Network Nov 12, 1999 — MALAGA, Spain, Nov. 12 -- Global Fiber Holding Co. has announced plans to construct MedFiber, a 3600-km submarine fiber-optic ring cable network that will link Spain, France and Italy. As planned, the network will have a design capacity of 2.4 Tb/s,...

Newport Credits Fiber, Semiconductor Saleswith Third Quarter Boost Oct 21, 1999 — IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 21 -- Newport Corp. reported a five percent rise in third quarter net income to $2.3 million, or 25 cents per diluted share, over last year's earnings of $2.2 million, or 24 cents per diluted share, for the same quarter....

Bell Labs Sets Record for Multimode Fiber Transmission Oct 14, 1999 — HOLMDEL, N.J., Oct. 14 -- Scientists from Bell Labs have succeeded in sending data at 10 Gb/s over 1.6 km of Lucent's LazrSPEED multimode fiber for local area networks, setting a world record for multimode fiber transmission. The Bell Labs team had...

Corning Inc. and Fibercore Settle Lawsuit Oct 13, 1999 — CORNING, N.Y., Oct. 13 -- Corning Inc. has settled the patent infringement lawsuit it filed against Fibercore Ltd. in December 1998. In the suit, Corning alleged that Fibercore was infringing upon two of Corning's patents: US Patent No. 4,339,173,...

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