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DENNIS MCKECHNIE: Wireless Internet, fiber-optic transmission and software--the FORTUNE 500 interacting with customers and suppliers--ought...
...Alcatel Optronics Public company based in Nozay, France CEO: Jean-Christophe Giroux What it does: Makes active and passive optical components Why it is hot: As one of the few companies that can offer a full range of products, it's catching up to U.S. rivals in market share and is currently bidding $5 billion to buy rival Lucent Technologies' optic fiber unit www.alcatel.com/optronics...
...Optillion Private company based in Kista, Sweden CEO: Patrik Evaldsson What it does: Produces fiber-optic Ethernet 10-Gbps (and above) transceivers, which offer better, lower-cost Ethernet at 10 times the current speed Why it is hot: Its innovations are expected to lead to low-cost, high-speed connections for consumers www.optillion.com...
...with the wiring the university has done in the past decade, it can’t be that difficult to slip some fiber-optic wires in with the other cables already there...
...sure, what Welch and other savvy CEOs are defending is not just any old information-technology spending. Nobody believes anymore, for example, in unlimited demand for fiber-optic cable and switches and bandwidth. And even among makers of efficiency-enhancing software, spending is slowing. Oracle, for example, was predicting 30% growth in earnings this year but revised that to announce that first-quarter growth would be less than 10%. Says Katrina Roche, chief of marketing for i2 Technologies, an e-business software maker based in Dallas: "Nobody is willing to blindly invest in technology the way they were 12 months...