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To: xcr600 who started this subject10/2/2000 6:50:09 AM
From: Paul Lee   of 955
 
from today's WSJ
Agility Enters Race With Intel
For 'Tunable Laser' Technology

By LISA BRANSTEN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Focus like a ...

Dig down a little ways in the frenzy over investing in optical-networking
equipment and you will find that a particularly interesting subset of that sector
involves "tunable lasers."

Lasers are needed to transmit light beams over fiber-optic lines in optical
networks. Tunable lasers, in turn, allow more flexibility in a network because
one laser can handle a number of different wavelengths of light. Without
tunable lasers, networks need separate lasers for each wavelength of light they
carry. Also, the devices allow network operators to more easily ensure
redundancy in their systems because instead of having to have a separate
backup laser for each device in the system, one tunable laser can be set to
replace any laser that goes down.

Driving up interest in the sector was
Nortel Networks' acquisition of
tunable-laser company CoreTek for
more than $1 billion. A new company
in the field to get funding is year-old
Agility Communications, Santa
Barbara, Calif., which has just closed
on a $70 million investment round led
by Worldview Technology Partners.

Agility's technology is based on
research by Larry Coldren, a professor at the University of California at Santa
Barbara who serves as the company's chief technical officer and chairman.

Agility will face competition from big players such as Nortel and a rash of
start-ups. But the market for tunable lasers is expected to be big. While it is
only about $100 million this year, market-research firm ElectroniCast figures it
will grow to $1.4 billion by 2005.
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