Ayar Labs Lands $155M in New Funding for Optical I/O
Ayar Labs secured $155 million in Series D funding to advance its optical I/O technology for AI infrastructure. The round, led by Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital, included...
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Photonic technologies, chip-to-chip, optical interconnects, DCI, metro and long-haul connectivity
Ribbon Powers Diabolocom’s Cloud Contact Center with High-Density DCI
Diabolocom, a global provider of cloud-based contact center software and voice AI solutions, has selected Ribbon Communications' high-density Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solution. The technology enables Diabolocom to efficiently connect...
Marvell Launches 1.6 Tbps LPO Chipset
Marvell released a 1.6 Tbps transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and laser driver chipset, enabling 800 Gbps and 1.6 Tbps linear-drive pluggable optics (LPO) for short-reach compute fabric interconnects. The new chipset...
Marvell Aquila DSP Optimizes 1.6 Tbps Campus Data Center Connectivity
Marvell unveiled the Aquila DSP, the first coherent-lite DSP optimized for 1.6 Tbps O-band optical interconnects. Designed for data center campus connectivity spanning 2 to 20 km, the Aquila DSP...
IBM Develops Co-Packaged Optics Integrating PWG
IBM has introduced a new co-packaged optics (CPO) technology that integrates polymer optical waveguides (PWG) to replace electrical interconnects inside data centers. Designed to support the growing demands of generative...
Sparkle Leverages Subsea Fiber for Seismic Detection in the Mediterranean
Sparkle signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) to leverage submarine fibre optic cables for real-time seismic monitoring in the Mediterranean. This...
VIAVI Details Role in Windstream’s 800G Transatlantic Trial
VIAVI Solutions confirmed its critical role in validating the world’s first 800GbE transatlantic service trial, originally announced in October by Windstream Wholesale and Nokia. Spanning 8,500 kilometers (5,280 miles) between...
Japan’s MIXI Expands Capacity with PacketLight’s Alien Wavelengths
MIXI upgraded its communications and gaming network by deploying PacketLight’s PL-4000M Muxponder, achieving a 300G capacity boost between Tokyo and the Inzai area. This enhancement supports MIXI’s focus on reliable,...
Vodafone Idea Picks Tejas Networks for Packet/Optical
Tejas Networks has signed a three-year agreement with Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) to supply its TJ1400 and TJ1600 packet and optical transmission products. The collaboration aims to strengthen VIL’s backhaul...
Aqua Comms Achieves 1.3 Tbps Over 5,500km in Subsea Trial with Ciena”
Aqua Comms and Ciena have set a new subsea connectivity milestone by transmitting a 1.3 Tbps wavelength across 5,500 kilometers (3,417 miles) of the Atlantic Ocean. The trial, powered by...
Aramco Tests Nokia’s 2.4Tbps PSE-6s Line Cards
Aramco achieved a 2.4Tbps optical transmission in a field trial on its existing fiber network. The trial tested Nokia’s sixth-generation Photonic Service Engine (PSE-6s), which powers line cards capable of...
UPVfab to Spearhead Hybrid Photonic Chip Manufacturing in €400M EU Initiative
UPVfab, a laboratory at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, is playing a pivotal role in the European Commission’s PIXEurope project, which aims to establish pilot manufacturing plants for hybrid photonic...
BBN Developing Photonic Chip Quantum Sensors under DARPA’s INSPIRED
RTX BBN Technologies is advancing the development of compact photonic quantum sensors under DARPA’s INSPIRED program. The sensors leverage quantum states of squeezed light to achieve over ten times the...
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