Kicky und Co kennt ihr NUFO

       NUFO to sell 3.5 mln shrs (NUFO) by Michael Baron
 
       New Focus Inc. (NUFO) is diving 32, or 20.8 percent, to 122 1/8 after announcing plans for a stock offering and reporting its second
       quarter results. The Santa Clara, Calif., fiber-optic firm said it will file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange
       Commission for a public offering of 3.5 million shares. Shareholders will be selling up to 500,000 of these shares. New Focus said it plans
       to use the proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes. On the earnings front, New Focus reported a pro forma
       second-quarter loss of $6.6 million, or 13 cents a share, and narrower than last year's pro forma loss of $1.5 million, or 6 cents a share.
       The company said it expects to experience "solid sequential growth between the second and third quarters." It also plans to significantly
       increase its capital spending in the second half to accelerate the growth of its manufacturing capacity.

New Focus, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets fiber optic products for next-generation optical networks, enabling
                   networking solutions with increased channel counts, higher data rates, longer reach lengths and new services. For the 3
                   months ended 3/31/00, net revenues totaled $9.8M, up from $4.7M. Net loss totaled $12.5M, up from $1.6M. Results
                   reflect increased sales of telecom products, offset by negative gross margins

IPO im Mai

Ich habe den Wert bisher nicht gekannt - habe mich nur mit EXFO und INSN beschäftigt.

Gruß Dampf

Dies ist von der Seite von New Focus:These 10-Gb/s transmitters and receivers are ideal for cost-effective, multimode, fiber-optic links between network equipment within a central office. These transceivers feature extremely small form factors and low power consumption with telecom quality, reliability, and performance. The transmitter includes a directly modulated 850-nm VCSEL (vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser) with laser-driver circuitry and automatic power control; the receiver includes a transimpedance amplifier with automatic gain control (AGC) and DC restoration. The units use a differential CML electrical interface. www.newfocus.com

noch interessanter fand ich heute einen Artikel in der Welt über: Nanotechnologie macht Glasfaserkabel billiger.Danach haben Helmut Schmidt und Martin Mennig vom LeibnizInstitut für Neue Materialien in Saarbrücken
die weltweit erste Nanoglastechnologie zum Patent angemeldet.Heute werden die optischen Bauelemente,die diese Lichtleitungen vernetzen,noch mit Hilfe der Chemical Vapor Deposition(CVD) oder der Flammenhydrolyse hergestellt,bei denen gläserne Partikel viele Stunden lang aus der Gasphase langsam auf das Substrat ausgeschieden werden.Die Nnanotechnologie braucht dazu weniger als eine Minute!!
Hoffen wir dass das Patentamt nicht wieder 3 Jahre braucht!