Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. Announces Initial Public Offering.Business Editors SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2000 Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. announced that it commenced today its initial public offering of 4,500,000 shares of its Common Stock at a price of $11.00 per share through an underwriting group managed by Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. & Co., U.S. Bancorp  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. Piper Jaffray, Wit SoundView, and SG Cowen. All of the shares were sold by the Company. The Company has granted the underwriters an option to purchase an additional 607,500 shares to cover over-allotments, if any. Alliance Fiber Optic Products' Common Stock will be traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "AFOP AFOP Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. AFOP Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs AFOP Association Française des industries de l'Optique et de la Photonique AFOP and for other purposes AFOP acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia ." Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, designs, manufactures and markets a broad range of high performance fiber optic components, and integrated modules incorporating these components, for leading and emerging communications equipment manufacturers. Alliance Fiber Optic Products offers a broad range of products including interconnect optical fibers and components, couplers and splitters that are used to divide and combine optical power, and dense wavelength division multiplexing See WDM. , or DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing , devices that separate and combine multiple specific wavelengths. A prospectus may be obtained from Merrill Lynch & Co. at 101 California St., Suite 1400, San Francisco, CA, 94111, 415/274-6000; U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray at 800 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN, 55402, 612/303-6000; Wit SoundView at One Market Street Tower, Fourth Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94105, 415/618-6200; and SG Cowen at Four Embarcadero Center For the Embarcadero Center complex, see Embarcadero Center Four Embarcadero Center is an office skyscraper located in San Francisco's Financial District. The building is part of the Embarcadero Center, which is a complex of six interconnected buildings and one , Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA, 94111, 415/646-7200. |
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