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Lightmatter announced the successful sampling of its Passage™ co-packaged optics (CPO) chiplet, demonstrating a record 1.6 Tbps throughput per fiber for AI interconnects. The…
Xscape Photonics, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, announced $37 million in new funding and launched FalconX, which it describes as the industry’s…
Ayar Labs announced a partnership with Wiwynn to integrate optical I/O technology into rack-scale AI infrastructure platforms. The companies said the collaboration will combine…
The Open Compute Project (OCP) released the Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN) 1.0 specification, establishing a new architecture for using Ethernet as the fabric inside…
Eridu, a Saratoga, California–based startup focused on next-generation AI networking infrastructure, emerged from stealth with more than $200 million in funding to develop a…
Keysight Technologies introduced the AresONE 1600GE, a purpose-built 1.6T Ethernet AI workload emulation platform designed to validate next-generation AI fabrics operating over emerging 224G…
Nexthop AI announced a $500 million Series B funding round that values the Santa Clara-based company at $4.2 billion, alongside the launch of new…
Salience Labs unveiled a 32-port all-optical silicon photonic switch designed to improve performance and efficiency in AI data center networks. The Oxford-based company said…
Ciena outlined a broad set of demonstrations and speaking sessions for the upcoming OFC 2026 in Los Angeles, highlighting technologies aimed at scaling optical…
Go!Foton introduced enhancements to its EKO optical sensing platform designed to provide continuous monitoring of fiber connectivity and optical signal levels across telecom and…
Coherent unveiled new single- and dual-chip 980 nm uncooled micro-pump lasers delivering up to 700 mW per fiber output in a compact 3-pin module…
Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AOI) announced it has received its first volume order for 1.6T optical transceivers from a major hyperscale customer as AI-driven infrastructure…
TIME dotCom Berhad deployed new coherent optical technology from Ciena across the FASTER submarine cable system, enabling 1 Tbps data transmission on a single…