Phone-equipment makers ride merger wave

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January 13, 1999; Lucent, Ascend in $20 billion merger
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Shares of Ciena, Advanced Fibre Communications, Tellabs, and others jump amid continued speculation they could be takeover targets for Cisco Systems.

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