Tech Update: CXL over optics is a game changer for AI Data Centers
What is Optical CXL? LLMs need massive amounts of memory. Looking ahead, this requirement will only grow. CXL is emerging as an industry standard way to enable vast pools of...
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OIF’s External Laser Small Form-Factor Pluggable (ELSFP) Implementation Agreement
OIF announced an implementation agreement for external lasers delivering continuous wave (CW) light to optical transceivers co-packaged within a system. The External Laser Small Form-Factor Pluggable (ELSFP) Implementation Agreement (IA) specifies a...
Lightelligence intros Optical Interconnect for Composable Data Center Architectures
Lightelligence, a start-up based in Boston with offices in Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Nanjing, introduced optical communications hardware designed for PCIe and Compute Express Link (CXL) connectivity. Photowave, which is is...
Sandia Labs develops method to intregrate photonic devices on chip
Sandia National Laboratories has patented a method to create hybrid silicon devices: hybrid lasers and amplifiers made from both indium phosphide and silicon, and similarly modulators made of both lithium-niobate...
OFS offers Fiber Solutions for America’s Broadband Buildout
In support of the Build America, Buy America Act, OFC is kicking off Fiber Solutions for America's Broadband Buildout emphasizing its well-established U.S. manufacturing capabilities. The program supports fiber broadband and middle-mile...
Openreach expands enterprise Optical Spectrum Access 100G with Adtran
Openreach, the UK’s largest wholesale broadband network, has deployed Adtran’s FSP 3000 open optical transport technology to enable its new Optical Spectrum Access 100G Single enterprise service. Openreach’s new product...
NTT announces stabilization of an electro-optic modulation-based optical frequency comb
NTT Corporation (NTT) and Tokyo Denki University have succeeded in further stabilizing the graduated frequency of an optical frequency ruler generated by modulating the intensity and phase of laser light...
Australia’s Powerlink deploys Ribbon
Powerlink, the electrical transmission grid operator in the Australian state of Queensland, has selected Ribbon to help modernize its statewide operational network. Part of Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM), Powerlink's network...
Zayo adds long-haul fiber routes, 400G services, data center PoPs
Zayo announced a series of expansions to its fiber infrastructure, including new long-haul dark fiber routes, increased fiber capacity for existing routes, additional 400 Gbps (400G)-enabled routes and new IP...
SiPhox raises $27M for home blood test powered by silicon photonics
SiPhox Health, a start-up based in Burlington, MA, raised $27 million in funding for its work in lab-grade home health testing kits powered by silicon photonics. SiPhox, which was founded...
Dell’Oro: Optical transport equipment forecast increased
Optical Transport equipment demand is forecast to be $83 billion over the next five years. This cumulative revenue is up 10 percent compared to the previous five-year period and will...
PacketLight enhances its PL-4000M Muxponder/ADM
PacketLight Networks has upgraded its PL-4000M muxponder to support the transport of 600 Gbps in the current 1U device. This enables providers to increase network backbone capacity cost-effectively and speed...
Brazil’s Solução Network lights up DWDM in three states with Padtec
Solução Network, a Brazilian telecommunications service provider, is expanding the coverage and transmission capacity of its DWDM networks in Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo using Padtec’s 800...
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