Also in the news . . .

Also in the news . . .

Bellsouth (Atlanta, GA), Corning Incorporated (Corning, NY), and Nortel Networks (Brampton, Ontario, Canada) have endorsed Phase II of the Ultrafast Optical Consortium, in which the companies fund research conducted jointly with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA). . . . Bookham Technology (Milton Park, England) has received equity investments from Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) and Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA). . . . The Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable Co. (Wuhan, China) is now the largest optical-fiber and cable producer in China following its latest expansion, producing 2.5 million km of fiber per year.

W. Conard Holton