The technology premise: Carriers have spent billions of dollars installing mega-bandwidth optical networks to carry information long distances.

FORBES: Forget the Garage

Venture firms and Wall Street have been quick to get it, jumping on the optical-bandwidth wagon with a passion usually reserved for dot.coms.

FORBES: Hooked on photonics

Venture firms and Wall Street have been quick to get it, jumping on the optical-bandwidth wagon with a passion usually reserved for dot.coms (see right).

FORBES: Hooked on Photonics