[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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