Sentence examples for fiber business from inspiring English sources

"Once the Agere deal is done and they sell the fiber business, I'll breathe easier, but it's all on a wing and a prayer right now".

"Our scientists go belly to belly with customers, and the customers eat it up," said Curt Weinstein, director of Corning's Metro fiber business.

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The latest cuts will bring its work force to 35,000 from a peak of 153,000 three years ago; about 50,000 of the jobs eliminated came through spinoffs of two Lucent businesses, Avaya and Agere, and the sale of its optical fiber business.

Montana Power got into the fiber business almost by happenstance.

When he retired from work, he rented several stores in the textile market for his son-in-law to run a precursor fiber business.

"We've had a huge reduction in revenues, and our costs haven't come down fast enough," said Wendell P. Weeks, who ran Corning's optical fiber businesses until his promotion to president in April.

"Negotiations for our optical-fiber business continue with multiple parties," the spokeswoman said.

According to the executives close to the talks, Furukawa Electric, a Japanese industrial concern that owns 9.8percentt of JDS Uniphase, will pay $2.52 billion for most of the business, while Corning will contribute $225 million for Lucent's optical-fiber business in China.

The fibers business has been seen as a drag on DuPont's profits.

The company planned to split into the Voridian Company, which would take the PET plastics and fibers business, and the Eastman Company, with the specialty chemicals business.