Ciena’s quarterly sales rise 19% yoy to $1.13 billion
Ciena reported revenue of $1.13 billion or its fiscal second quarter ended April 29, 2023, up 19% as compared to $949.2 million for the fiscal second quarter 2022. Ciena's GAAP...
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Photonic technologies, chip-to-chip, optical interconnects, DCI, metro and long-haul connectivity
Lightmatter lands $154 million for photonic interconnects / processors
Lightmatter, a start-up based in Boston, raised a $154 million Series C investment round for its photonic interconnects and processors. Lightmatter’s photonics-enabled products encompass a full stack of hardware and...
Liquid Dataport connects Mombasa to Muanda via terrestrial fiber
Liquid Dataport launched its newest fibre route connecting Mombasa, Kenya, to Muanda on the west coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). The new 3,800 km fiber route...
Adtran launches FSP 3000 OLS for the coherent optical edge
Adtran launched its FSP 3000 Edge OLS, an open line system designed for the new generation of coherent edge access, aggregation and metro networks. The platform is specifically engineered for...
Ayar Labs raises additional funding for optical I/O chiplets
Ayar Labs, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised an additional $25 million in Series C1 funding, for its work in silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity. Ayar Labs uses...
Blovelight develops WDM lens array with SABIC’s resin
China-based Blovelight has partnered with SABIC on an integrated, single-mode fiber optic lens array for optical transmission applications. The design uses SABIC’s ULTEM resin to mold an integrated connector and...
New Broadband Forum spec targets virtualized ONU authentication
The Broadband Forum will develop a new specification for ONU authentication in virtualized services. Conventionally, ONU authentication is carried out solely by the operator’s Optical Line Terminals (OLTs), however, as...
Poland’s Hawe Telekom tests Infinera’s ICE6 800G
Hawe Telekom, a wholesale carrier based in Poland, completed a live network trial of Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent solution. In the trial, which was conducted on Hawe Telekom’s Warsaw-Poznan-Frankfurt route,...
Liberty Networks deploys Infinera’s ICE6 800G on Florida routes
Liberty Networks is using Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent solution to upgrade and expand the capacity of its Florida Transport Network (FTN). This network enhancement enables Liberty Networks to offer new...
OneLight Sensing adds to its team
OneLight Sensing, a start-up based in San Jose, California, appointed Rear Admiral (Ret) Christian “Boris” Becker as President of the company. Becker completed his 30-plus year career in the U.S....
Ciena supplies Coherent Routing and WaveLogic 5 pluggables to Great Plains Comm
Great Plains Communications (GPC), which operates a privately-owned 16,500+ mile fiber network reaching 13 states, is deploying Ciena's Coherent Routing solution and WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) to: support 5G and...
Arelion adds high-capacity East Coast route
Arelion has deployed a new fully diverse, high-capacity route from Reston, VA down the U.S. East Coast, connecting directly to the Telxius cable landing station in Virginia Beach, then continuing...
MOX deploys Ciena for 400G wavelength service
MOX Networks will be deploying Ciena’s 6500 flexible grid Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) photonic layer with WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics to enable multi-terabit capacity on its dark...
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