Raj Singh, principal at Redwood Ventures in Los Altos, Calif., and a cofounder of hot optical networking startups Cerent and Siara Networks, is looking to cofound more optical and data networking companies.
Lucent Venture Partners invests primarily in optical data, wireless-networking and semiconductor companies.
Ciena's product portfolio includes optical networking, broadband networking, data networking and software for network and service management.
The sale includes more than 6,000 patents and patent applications spanning wireless, wireless 4G, data networking, optical, voice, internet, semiconductors and other patents.
Nortel wrote in a statement that the patents Google is looking to acquire span "wireless, wireless 4G, data networking, optical, voice, internet, service provider, semiconductors and other patent portfolios".
Among its achievements: the transistor, the touch-tone telephone, data networking, digital transmission and switching, optical communications and the digital signal processor.
"Infosys' revenue base is now widening into technology areas such as optical networking, and it is getting increasing business from telecom and data networking companies," says Bhavin Shah, head of Asian Technology Research at CSFB in Hong Kong.
Named Data Networking (NDN) is a data-centric networking architecture designed for the future Internet.
