Nortel's Optical Spree Continues
News Last Tuesday, Nortel bolstered its optical switching and transmission portfolio by buying photonic switch developer Xros $3.25bn (£2bn) in stock. With that purchase, Nortel gains Xros' X-1000 product, a fully optical switch that is scheduled to...
[March 23, 2000, 7:25]
The Day Ahead: Lucent Ups Fibre Optic Ante
News Nortel has also been busy, buying CoreTek, Xros and Qtera to name a few. Lucent Technologies entered the fibre optic game with its $4.5bn acquisition of privately held Chromatis Networks, which makes metro optical networking systems.
[June 1, 2000, 12:14]
