Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Bookham Acquires Ignis Optics

Bookham Technology agreed to acquire Ignis Optics, a provider of small form-factor pluggable (SFP and XFP) single-mode optical transceivers, for $15.5 million in new stock. Ignis Optics is based in San Jose, California. Bookham said the acquisition would accelerate its move to provide a full XFP and SFP product set at multiple speeds and different reaches in order to address the majority of new datacom optics opportunities.
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http://www.ignis-optics.com

  • Earlier this month, Bookham announced plans to acquire New Focus.


  • In July 2003, Bookham acquired the business of Cierra Photonics.


  • In 2002, Bookham acquired the optical components businesses from Nortel Networks and Marconi.