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OFC 2026 Opens in Los Angeles as AI Drives Optical Innovation
OFC 2026 is underway this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center, bringing together the global optical networking industry at a moment when artificial…
1600G ZR and ZR+: The Next Frontier in Coherent Pluggables
By Fady Masoud, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing at Nokia The massive scale of AI model training, inference and data movement between distributed compute clusters is…
Open CPX MSA Aims to Standardize Co-Packaged Optical Engines
A group of optical connectivity vendors including Ciena, Coherent, Marvell, Molex, Samtec, and TeraHop announced the formation of the Open CPX MSA, a new…
VIAVI Introduces TestCenter D2 1.6T Appliance
VIAVI Solutions announced the TestCenter D2 1.6T Appliance, a new Ethernet test platform designed to validate next-generation AI data center networks operating at 1.6T…
XPO MSA Introduces 12.8 Tbps Pluggable Optics
Arista Networks announced the formation of the XPO (eXtra-dense Pluggable Optics) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA), an industry initiative aimed at defining a next-generation pluggable optical module…
Lightmatter Targets CPO Manufacturing Bottleneck with Detachable vClick Optics
Lightmatter introduced vClick Optics, a detachable fiber array unit for co-packaged optics that targets one of the toughest manufacturing problems in advanced AI packages:…
Coherent Advances Multi-Rail Optical Transport Platform
Coherent announced enhancements to its multi-rail optical transport platform designed to support the growing bandwidth demands of AI-driven networks. The update combines the company’s…
Broadcom Ships Tomahawk 6, the First 102.4 Tbps Data Center Switch
Broadcom announced that its Tomahawk 6 switch silicon is now shipping in production volume, marking the commercial availability of the industry’s first 102.4 Tbps…
Marvell and Mojo Vision Partner on Micro-LED Optical Interconnects
Marvell Technology and Mojo Vision announced a long-term collaboration to develop micro-LED-based optical interconnects aimed at next-generation AI data center infrastructure. The effort targets…
Avicena Unveils MicroLED Optical I/O Evaluation Platform
Avicena unveiled the LightBundle™ eKit, an evaluation platform designed to demonstrate microLED-based optical connectivity for next-generation AI infrastructure. The platform integrates ASIC-based transceivers with…
La Luce Cristallina Samples 200-mm Wafers for Low-Voltage Silicon Photonics
Austin-based La Luce Cristallina announced the beta availability of a 200-mm (8-inch) barium titanate (BaTiO₃) wafer platform designed for next-generation electro-optic modulators used in…
Lightmatter Unveils 6.4 Tbps Optical Engine for NPO and OBO
Lightmatter introduced the Passage L20 optical engine, a 6.4 Tbps (per direction) photonic module designed to accelerate deployment of high-bandwidth optical interconnects for next-generation…