Optical amplifiers. (News Briefs).

Market research firm Strategies Unlimited (Mountain View, CA) will sponsor ts second annual business conference on optical amplifiers November 14-15, 2002, in San Mateo, CA. "Strategies in Optical Amplifiers 2002" will focus on the issues created by continued turmoil and anemic capital spending in the telecom sector. According to Strategies Unlimited, the severe drop-off in capital expenditures by carriers has shifted the focus of optical amplifier vendors from visionary designs to immediate-term survival. Carriers, systems vendors, amplifier subsystem manufacturers, and component providers will gather at Strategies in Optical Amplifiers 2002" to discuss the actions being …