[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 160 (Thursday, August 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50219-50220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20890]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Optical Internetworking Forum (``OIF'')
Notice is hereby given that, on March 2, 2000, pursuant to Section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Optical Internetworking Forum
(``OIF'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in
its membership status. The notifications were filed for the purpose of
extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust
plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.
Specifically, Blaze Network Products, Dublin, CA; Centre Comunicacions
Avancades Banda, Catalunya, Spain; Computer & Communications Research
Labs, Hsin Chu, TAIWAN; Huawei Technologies, Shenzhen, PEOPLES REPUBLIC
OF CHINA; Information & Communications University, Daejon, SOUTH KOREA;
Integrated Device Technology, Santa Clara, CA; Japan Radio Co.,
Yokosuka, JAPAN; LAN-hopper Systems, Norcross, GA; Maker
Communications, Framingham, MA; Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA;
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA; PhotonEx, Bedford, MA;
Redfern Broadband Networks, Sydney, AUSTRALIA; Royal KPN, The Hague,
NETHERLANDS; Samsung, Suwon, SOUTH KOREA; Siara Systems, Mountain View,
CA; Telecom Italia, Rome, ITALY; Telefonica de Espana, Madrid, SPAIN;
Telia AB, Farsta, SWEDEN; Terago Communications, Plymouth, MN; TTC,
Germantown, MD; VTT Information Technology, Espoo, FINLAND; Wind, Rome,
ITALY have been added as auditing members. Altera, San Jose, CA; ANDO
Corporation, San Jose, CA; Conexant, Boulder, CA; Cypress
Semiconductor, San Jose, CA: ETRI, Taejeon, SOUTH KOREA; Extreme
Networks, Santa Clara, CA; General Dynamics, Whippany, NJ; Gore &
Associates, Austin, TX; IBM Corporation, Waltham, MA; Infineon
Technologies, Cupertino, CA: JDS Uniphase, Nepean, Ontario, CANADA;
Korea Telecom, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA; LANCAST, Nashua, NH; Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation, Kanagawa, JAPAN; Network Associates, Santa Clara,
CA; Photonetics, Peabody, MA; SITA Equant, Valbonne, FRANCE; Toshiba
Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Transwitch Corporation, Shelton, CT; Vitesse
Semiconductor, Framingham, MA have been added as principal members.
Accelerant Networks, Beaverton, OR; Algety Telecom, Lannion, FRANCE;
Alidian Networks, Los Altos, CA; Appian Communications, Foxborough, MA;
Axsun Technologies, Billercia, MA; China Advanced Info-Optical Network,
Beijing, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Chip2Chip, San Jose, CA; Chromisys,
Sunnyvale, CA; Cielo Communications, Broomfield, CO; Coretek,
Wilmington, MA; Coriolis Networks, Foxborough, MA; Corvia Networks,
Santa Clara, CA; Crescent Networks, Chelmsford, MA; CyOptics, Los
Angeles, CA; Equipe Communications, Westford, MA; Extreme Packet
Devices, Kanata, Ontario, CANADA; Focused Research, Madison, WI; Harris
& Jeffries, Dedham, MA; Internet Research Institute, Tokoyo, JAPAN;
IronBridge Networks, Lexington, MA; LightLogic, Santa Clara, CA;
Luminous Networks, San Jose, CA; Multilink Technology Corporation,
Santa Monica, CA; Nanovation, Miami, FL; Network Elements, Beaverton,
OR; New Access Communications, San Jose, CA; NewPort Communications,
Irvine, CA; Novanet, Raanana, ISRAEL; Optobahn, Torrance, CA; PentaCom,
Herzliyya, ISRAEL; PicoLight, Boulder, CO; Quantum Bridge, North
Andover, MA; Sirocco Systems, Wallingford, CT; Solidum Systems
Corporation, Scotts Valley, CA; SpectraSwitch, Santa Rosa, CA; TELE-
WORX, Garland, TX; Trellis Photonics, Carmiel, ISRAEL; US Conec,
Hickory, NC; Vivace Networks, San Jose, CA; Xros, Sunnyvale, CA; Xtera
Communications, Sunnyvale, CA; YAFO, Columbia, MD have been added as
small principal members. Allied Signal, Morristown, NJ has changed from
principal member to auditing member. Chiaro Networks, Jerusalem,
ISRAEL; Dynarc, Kista, SWEDEN; and Lunx, Sunnyvale, CA have changed
from auditing members to small principal members. ECI Telecom, Petah-
Tikua, ISRAEL; and Fujikura, Sakura-Shi, JAPAN have changed from
auditing members to principal members. Virtual Photonics, Berlin,
GERMANY has changed from small principal member to auditing member.
Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ has changed its name to Telcordia Technologies;
Hewlett-Packard, San Jose, CA has changed its name to Agilent
Technologies, Osicom Technologies, San Diego, CA has changed its name
to Sorrento Networks; Ryan Hankin Kent, San Francisco, CA has changed
its name to RHK. Wandel & Goltermann, Eningen, GERMANY has changed it
name to Wavetek Wandel Goltermann. Argon Networks, Littleton, MA has
merged into Siemens, Munich, GERMANY; Ascend Communications, Westford,
MA has merged into Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ; Cerent
Corporation, Petaluma, CA has merged into Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA;
Cimaron Communications, Andover, MA has merged into AMCC, San Diego,
CA; Fore Systems, Warrendale, PA has merged into Marconi
Communications, Genova, ITALY, JDS Fitel, Nepean, Ontario, CANADA has
merged into JDS Uniphase, Nepean, Ontario, CANADA; Uniphase
Corporation, Bloomfield, CT has merged into JDS Uniphase, Nepean,
Ontario, CANADA; Lightera Networks, Cupertino, CA and Monterey
Networks, Richardson, TX have merged into Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA;
Nexabit, Marlborough, MA has merged into Lucent Technologies, Holmdel,
NJ; and Reltec Corporation has merged into Marconi Communications,
Genova, ITALY. Also, AMP, Inc., Harrisburg, PA; Applied Fiber Optics
(AFO), Fremont, CA; Bandwidth Unlimited, Hayward, CA; British
Telecommunications, London, UNITED KINGDOM; Giga, Thousand Oaks, CA;
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; Los Alamos National Labs, Los
Alamos, NM; Mayan Networks, Sunnyvale, CA; Molecular OptoElectronics
Corp., Watervliet, NY; MRV Communications, Chatsworth, CA; New Focus,
Santa Clara, CA; Northchurch Communications Inc., Andover, MA; Open
Networks Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI; Pipelinks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA;
SDL, San Jose, CA; Stratum One Communications, Santa Clara, CA;
Symmetricom, San Jose, CA; Terabit Networks, Los Altos, CA; Uniant,
Santa Clara, CA; University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and USC-
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Information Sciences Inst., Arlington, VA have been dropped as parties
to this venture.
No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group
research project remains open, and Optical Internetworking Forum
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes
in membership.
On October 5, 1998, Optical Internetworking Forum filed its
original notification pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The
Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register
pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on January 29, 1999 (64 FR 4709).
The last notification was filed with the Department on February 25,
1999. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to
Section 6(b) of the Act on May 26, 1999 (64 FR 28520).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-20890 Filed 8-16-00; 8:45 am]
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