Lightmatter Raises $400M Series D to Scale AI Photonics
Lightmatter, based in Mountain View, has raised $400 million in a Series D round, bringing its valuation to $4.4 billion. The funding, led by investors advised by T. Rowe Price...
Optical
Photonic technologies, chip-to-chip, optical interconnects, DCI, metro and long-haul connectivity
Zayo Boosts NYC Connectivity with 400G Network Expansion
Zayo has expanded its 400G wavelength network to accommodate increasing bandwidth demands in the New York/New Jersey metro area. The expansion enhances high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity for critical industries such as...
Netomnia Rolls Out 50G PON in the UK with Adtran
Adtran and Netomnia have announced a partnership to bring 50Gbit/s passive optical network (50G PON) services to the UK. This rollout aims to address the growing bandwidth needs for homes,...
Converge Chooses Infinera’s 1.2 Tbps Tech for Bifrost Cable Expansion
Converge ICT Solutions Inc. has chosen Infinera’s 1.2 Tbps ICE7 optical engine for its new fiber pairs on the Bifrost Cable System. This system is a major 15,000 km trans-Pacific...
Ribbon’s 800G ZR+ Demo at NGON/NetworkX
Ribbon Communications has unveiled the first compact modular solution featuring both 400ZR+ and 800ZR+ ports, offering a significant upgrade for metro and long-haul transport networks. The live demo at NGON...
Japan’s NICT Demos 336 Tbps Optical System with Single Light Source
An international research team, led by Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), demonstrated a new optical fiber communication system with a total transmission capacity of 336 Tbps....
Video: What’s Next for Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO)?
Check out other Tech Updates on our YouTube Channel (subscribe today): https://www.youtube.com/@NextGenInfra and check out our latest reports at: https://nextgeninfra.io/ In this conversation, Jim Carroll and Armond Hairapetian discuss the...
NTT and NEC Boost IOWN APN with Optical Fiber Sensing
NTT Corporation, NTT EAST, NTT WEST, and NEC have jointly enhanced the IOWN All-Photonics Network (APN) by integrating optical fiber sensing technology to monitor real-time traffic conditions across multiple routes...
1&1 Versatel Upgrades 65,000km Fiber Network with Adtran
1&1 Versatel is upgrading its nationwide fiber optic network in Germany with Adtran’s FSP 3000 flexgrid WDM technology to boost data transmission capacity and meet rising digital demands. The upgraded...
ECOC24 Award winners
At the ECOC24 Exhibition in Frankfurt, the following award winners and companies were announced: Best Fibre/Fibre Component Product Award: Winner! Sumitomo Electric Europe Limited for 2C Z-PLUS Fiber ULL Teramount...
ECOC24: Polariton Achieves 400 Gbps Per Lane
Polariton Technologies, in collaboration with ETH Zurich and Lightwave Logic, has achieved data rates exceeding 400 Gbps per lane using commercial off-the-shelf ring resonator modulators (RRM). This milestone positions Polariton...
Lightpath Launches 400G Protected with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Nano
Lightpath deployed the industry’s first 400 Gbps protected optical circuit using advanced pluggable technologies from Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Nano optics. The deployment enables Lightpath to support hyperscale customers with mission-critical...
ECOC24 video: What’s Next for Optical DSPs? 1.6T and Beyond
Data center networking is poised to make the leap to 224G per lane connectivity, opening the path for super high-speed interfaces at 1.6 Tbps and up. How are the challenges...
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