Optical

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) has launched a new Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) Subproject aimed at accelerating the adoption of photonic switching technologies in AI data centers. Co-led by...

Ayar Labs has appointed Vivek Khanzodé as Vice President of Engineering and expanded its operations in both the U.S. and Asia to support rising demand for co-packaged optics (CPO) in...

AFL has introduced DENALI™, a modular optical fiber platform designed for the rapidly evolving demands of GPU-accelerated and AI-driven data center environments. Announced from its headquarters in Spartanburg, South Carolina,...

iPronics teams up with Ansys to accelerate development of next-generation photonic integrated circuits for AI and cloud data centers. The partnership combines iPronics' design of fabrication-tolerant photonic components with Ansys'...

Zayo Europe has partnered with Ciena to launch a new high-capacity optical network spanning 3,000km across Germany, targeting eight core metro areas including Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, and Berlin, and...

Optical Cable Corporation (OCC), a veteran U.S. manufacturer of fiber optic and copper cabling solutions, has announced a new strategic collaboration with Lightera, previously OFS Fitel. The partnership aims to...

PacketLight Networks has extended the reach of its 400G optical transport solutions to 4,000 kilometers, enabling cost-effective ultra-long-haul connectivity across transcontinental and backbone networks. The company’s PL-4000T (1.6T, 4x400G) and...

Fujitsu has officially launched 1Finity, a newly formed subsidiary that consolidates its global network-related businesses under a single brand. Headquartered in Kawasaki, Japan, the company commenced operations on July 1,...

Silicon Valley startup Xscape Photonics has launched the EagleX Laser Evaluation Kit, offering early access to its ChromX multi-color laser platform designed to overcome bandwidth bottlenecks in next-generation AI data...

The explosive growth of cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing (HPC) is pushing data center networks toward unprecedented bandwidth demands. As switch capacities leap from 25.6 Tbps to...

PCI-SIG has introduced a major specification update enabling PCI Express (PCIe) over optical fiber, marking the first standardized optical interconnect solution for the widely used interface. The new Optical Aware Retimer...

Researchers in Japan have demonstrated that single-mode polymer waveguides fabricated on glass-epoxy substrates offer the stability and optical performance necessary for co-packaged optics (CPO) systems using external laser sources (ELS)....

Nokia, CSC – the Finnish IT Center for Science – and SURF have demonstrated a 1.2 Tbps quantum-safe optical data transfer between Amsterdam and Kajaani, Finland, to prepare for the...