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Table 7-4 cont. Buying Company Company Bought Date Value
Acquisitions by
Lucent Technologies Hermann Technology Jun 00 $438 million
Vendor
Alcatel Innovative Fibers Jul 00 $175 million
JDS Uniphase SDL, Inc. Jul 00 $41 billion
Cypress Silicon Light Machines Jul 00 $169 million
Semiconductor
Corning Willow Systems Aug 00 Undisclosed
Broadcom NewPort Aug 00 $1.25 billion
Communications
Corning Pirelli Optical Sep 00 $3.6 billion
Components
Kymata Total Micro Products Oct 00 Undisclosed
Figure 7-6 Value of Investments
Categories of
major investments
60
by vendor 59.647
50
40
30
20
10.968
7.88 8.265
10 7.15
4.7
2.1 2.4 2.9
0 Cisco Corning GEC JDS Uniphase Lucent Nortel Redback SDL Sycamore
