Ciena unveiled its WaveLogic Ai, a programmable coherent modem that is positioned as a foundational technology for future "self-driving" networks. Ciena said its WaveLogic Ai coherent modem can drive 400G...
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) and Nokia Bell Labs have achieved record transmission capacity over a 6,600 km single mode fiber. The lab trial demonstrated a total 65 Tbps transmission using...
Luxtera announced a big milestone: the company has shipped more than one million Silicon Photonic Parallel Single Mode fiber 4-lane (PSM4) transceiver products. Each Luxtera 100G PSM4 optical transceiver product...
Inphi announced a 400GbE platform solution for next-generation 400G CFP8 modules. The solution uses Inphi's highly integrated, lowest power 4-level Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM4) digital signal processing (DSP) IC, which...
Finisar introduced its WaveShaper Series A Programmable Optical Processors for optical filtering and processing applications in advanced communication systems in R&D and manufacturing. Finisar said its new WaveShaper Series A...
Ciena reported revenue of $670.6 million for its fiscal third quarter ended July 31, 2016, compared to $602.9 million for the fiscal third quarter 2015. GAAP net income for the...
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has begun work on a 100G Serial Electrical Link project. The very short reach (VSR) CEI-112G chip-to-module interface project will support a nominal lane rate...
The optical transport equipment market almost hit $4 billion in 2Q16, growing six percent year-over year, according to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group. Some highlights: Huawei, the market...
After 16 years of investing in R&D, Intel announced the commercial release of its first silicon photonics product -- a 100G CWDM4 QSFP28 optical transceiver supporting in data center distances...
Ciena added 30 new members to its Blue Orbit Ecosystem, which is focused on delivering applications and infrastructure platforms for real-world, multi-vendor software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV)...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge announced a miniature electro-optical switch with the potential for more energy-efficient signal processing. The switch can change the spin – or angular momentum –...
In its first financial report as a public company, Acacia Communications posted Q2 revenue of $116.2 million, up 101% year-over-year. GAAP gross margin came in at 46.4% of revenue and...
Juniper Networks agreed to acquire Aurrion, a start-up developing silicon-photonics technology. Financial terms were not disclosed. Aurrion, which is based in Santa Barbara, California and was founded in 2008, has...
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