Optical

Infinera and Sumitomo Electric completed the first testing of point-to-multipoint coherent pluggable transceiver technology in Japan. The XR optics point-to-multipoint integration testing , which was conducted in Infinera’s Tokyo lab...

Windstream Wholesale introduced a "Regional Rapid Fiber" wavelength service based on 400G ZR+ pluggables. The service offers point-to-point connections within multiple regional sites across Windstream’s Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON)....

 Infinera achieved 61.3 terabits per second (Tbps) of unregenerated data transmission capacity on a fiber pair over a simulated intercity network trial for Telstra InfraCo’s intercity fiber project in Australia. ...

Padtec is supplying its DWDM equipment for a high-capacity network that runs along the bed of the Amazon river in the north of Brazil.  In the first phase of Norte...

ANELLO Photonics, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, has joined NVIDIA Inception, a program designed to nurture startups revolutionizing industries with technology advancements. ANELLO is focused on building low-noise...

Raytheon Technologies introduced a tactical Free-Space Optical Communications system for high-speed, secure data transfer in challenging environments. The company said its laser-driven system provides greater bandwidths in a form factor...

The IOWN Global Forum announced five new members to its Board of Directors: Ciena, Steve Alexander, Chief Technology Officer Orange, Gilles Bourdon, Vice President, Wireline Networks and Infrastructure Fujitsu, Shingo...

Imagia, a start-up based in Fremont, California, announced the close of a $4.5M seed round for evelopment and initial commercial deployment of the company’s first generation of flat, silicon-based optical...

POET Technologies introduced a packaged light source solution for AI applications.  POET’s Starlight products integrate active components like lasers and certain other passive optical and electrical components into the optical...

Nokia introduced its second ‘pizza-box’ form optical line terminal (OLT).  The new Quillion-powered Lightspan DF-32GM extends Nokia’s OLT portfolio for multi-gig deployments in low density areas by communication service providers...

SkyLine, a provider of advanced telecommunications in North Carolina, has selected Ribbon Communications to supply a comprehensive IP and Optical network solution. Ribbon said its IP Wave solution enables greater...

The VERTIGO (Very High Throughput Satellite-Ground Optical link) project successfully demonstrated a high-power optical data transmission system at the Thales laboratory in Palaiseau, France.  Thales Alenia Space, Thales, G&H and...

The University of Southampton's Silicon Photonics group announced the publication of its paper on "Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators" in the prestigious Nature Photonics journal.  The researchers have shown that  absorption...