Optical

With the deployment of C band + L band (“C+L”) photonic nodes on the terrestrial links in Europe, Middle East and South America, Sparkle further increases its transmission capacity up...

Central Electric Power Cooperative (CEPC) deployed Infinera’s XTM Series to modernize and significantly increase capacity on its existing rural broadband network across the state of Missouri.  CEPC is an electric...

Ciena introduced its new WaveRouter platform architecture for unifying IP, optical, and compute functionality in a single platform for the converged metro network.  Ciena says WaveRouter is built on an...

Banias Labs achieved first-pass silicon success for its optical DSP SoC using Synopsys 112G Ethernet PHY IP and EDA Design Suite.  Synopsys provided Banias Labs with a comprehensive IP solution...

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum will host its third annual member meeting in Osaka, Japan, from 25-27 April, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Osaka. Keynotes will include:...

Viasat debuted its new Mercury Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC) terminal  designed to support terrestrial, expeditionary applications, including SOCOM use cases. The Viasat Mercury solution is an expeditionary, high-capacity FSOC...

Ciena reaffirmed its previously-issued guidance for its fiscal second quarter and full year 2023, along with its previous statements with respect to both the demand environment and the normalization of...

OIF announced its Co-Packaging-3.2T-Module-01.0 Implementation Agreement for Ethernet switching applications utilizing 100G electrical lanes while ensuring backward compatibility with 50G lanes.  The module definition can be in the form of...

Adtran has joined the EU-funded Software enabled Fiber optic multisensing Network (SoFiN) project, which is developing a flexible platform for fiber-based sensing applications in critical infrastructure. The platform will measure...

OpenColo, a data center operator based in Santa Clara, California, transported a 1.6 Tbps traffic flow over an 800GE link aggregation group with 800GE FR4 optics.  The field trial included...

Cisco introduced a 36 x 800G line card with a capacity 28.8 Tbps for use in its Cisco 8000 Series Routers. The line card offers double the density of the...

Corning inaugurated its newest optical cable manufacturing campus in Hickory, North Carolina. Corning has manufactured optical fiber and cable in North Carolina for more than 40 years. With the opening...

NTT announced "Beluganos", a network OS for carrier white boxes. The technology was developed with IP Infusion and in alignment with NTT's IOWN vision. Beluganos includes various advanced functions, such...