With Oclaro in a waiting game, as China must provide antitrust regulatory approval for Lumentum’s acquisition, and although fibeReality senses that that some people at…
Category: M&A
24 Tough Queries for Vendors/Users at ECOC 2018
Unfortunately, this writer will be unable to be in Rome, as I will be attending a much happier, personal event later in the week. fibeReality…
NeoPhotonics: A Rationale for a Resurgence
Ever since the last optical boom in China, it has been easy to be critical about NeoPhotonics concerning limitations for growth in its traditional space…
Nokia’s Unchanged Strategy to Exit Optics
Even prior to closing the deal, Nokia Networks’ purchase of Alcatel-Lucent surrounded the former contemplating divesting the submarine optics division of the latter. The major…
ADVA/ECI Merger? Hasty Knee-Jerk Effect
If a press account this past August was true that an ADVA Optical Networking-Coriant merger could not have been worked out, it may have been…
New Wrinkles Could Backup Optical M&A Rumor
fibeReality recently published the article, “ADVA/ECI Merger? Hasty Knee-Jerk Effect,” in which we presented the case about the drawbacks of such a combination. While all…
II-VI: Disentangling Finisar at Both Ends
While there was initially hope on the part of at least some executives at Finisar with the new corporate leadership, it left a lot to…
Finisar Gives II-VI Design Arm to Apple
In fibeReality’s last blog piece we stated that Apple “had benefitted from its association with…technologists, [including those that have been part of Finisar’s 3DS (3D…
Suggested Texas VCSEL Strategy for II-VI
fibeReality has recently expressed its point of view that the II-VI-Finisar merger only really seems to makes sense in the context of Apple’s understandable concern…
II-VI/Finisar: Security Over Specialization
fibeReality has decided to add to its initial thesis on what compelled II-VI to buy Finisar. As our title suggests, there have been a large…
