Optical components companies Bookham and Avanex announced the completion of their merger, which was announced about three months ago, and changed the name of the newly-combined company to Oclaro. The company makes high-speed optical transceivers, tunable lasers, remote configurable add/drop multiplexers, and other components.
It will compete in a market that includes JDS Uniphase, as well as other firms that have grown larger through M&A, including Finisar and Opnext.
For more:
- Light Reading has this story [1]
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Bookham and Avanex announced their deal in late January [2]
Finisar and Optium merged last year [3]
Links:
[1] http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=175922&
[2] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/bookham-avanex-join-optical-component-m-trend/2009-01-28
[3] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/optical-component-firms-finisar-optium-to-merge/2008-05-19