Bookham Technology agreed to acquire Ignis Optics, a provider of small form-factor pluggable (SFP and XFP) single-mode optical transceivers, for $15.5 million in new stock. Ignis Optics is based in San Jose, California. Bookham said the acquisition would accelerate its move to provide a full XFP and SFP product set at multiple speeds and different reaches in order to address the majority of new datacom optics opportunities.
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- Earlier this month, Bookham announced plans to acquire New Focus.
- In July 2003, Bookham acquired the business of Cierra Photonics.
- In 2002, Bookham acquired the optical components businesses from Nortel Networks and Marconi.
