O-RAN ALLIANCE Global PlugFest Fall 2024 initiated in August with 31 hosts in 24 labs around the world...

Adtran today announced that 1&1 Versatel is upgrading its nationwide fiber optic network across Germany by leveraging Adtran FSP 3000 open optical transport technology. The new flexgrid solution expands network capacity to support data rates up to 800Gbit/s and stretches across approximately 65,000km of fiber infrastru...

Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) will feature its latest advancements in PON pluggables, purpose-built routers, optical innovations, and network control software at Network X, occurring October 8–10 in Paris, France. Ciena's speaking sessions and demonstrations will show how its solutions help network operators expand broadband ...

Nokia's research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, and e&, a global technology group, announced today that they have signed a year-long, non-binding memorandum of understanding (“MoU”) for R&D collaboration to create AI-based use cases for strategic industrial sectors. ...

HyperLight Corporation, a leading provider of thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), announced a US$37 million Series B investment led by Summit Partners....

Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, and Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), a global leader in networking systems, services, and software, recently deployed the industry's first known 400 Gb/s protected optical circuit ...

Nokia today announced that it has been selected by Spark New Zealand (Spark), to expand its existing 4G and 5G program in cities across New Zealand. Spark has chosen Nokia as its preferred 5G Radio Access Network partner to streamline operations and consolidate its RAN. This strategic decision will simplify networ...

Nokia today announced that it has partnered with ZCorum, a leading provider of diagnostics and managed services for broadband providers, to develop a DOCSIS Provisioning Adapter (DPA) application. The DPA solution will allow cable operators to use their existing DOCSIS-based provisioning system to provision an Optical ...

Sipartech, a leading infrastructure operator in Europe, is leveraging Ciena's (NYSE: CIEN) GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution to provide wholesale 400GbE services over an 800Gb/s wavelength on its submarine network and bolster the resilience and quality of its extensive pan-European network. ...

Aqua Comms (“Aqua Comms”), a leading provider of global subsea connectivity services, has announced today that it has accelerated its investment in its platform by lighting a new fibre pair on Aqua Comms' AEC-1 system. Owned and operated by Aqua Comms, AEC-1, is Ireland's first dedicated subsea fibre-optic netw...

Collaboration Agreement Targets Next Generation Data Centers vRAN to Fronthaul with All-Optical Transmission and Switching...

General-Purpose Server and Storage Recovery Underway...

Malaysian cable construction firm OMS has set aside $300 million to tip into new cable systems and expand its core business. ...

Nokia today announced that International Gateway Company Limited (IGC) has selected Nokia's next-generation optical transport solution to modernize its existing DWDM network, which connects the East region to Cambodia and the South region to Malaysia. Powered by Nokia's latest generation Photonic Service E...

Nokia today announced that it has signed a major new deal with Viettel Group (Viettel) to deploy 5G equipment for the first time nationwide in Vietnam. The ambitious project will cover 22 provinces across the country and support Viettel's strategy of advancing 5G infrastructure and digital transformation. The ...

Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) continues to push technology boundaries by bringing to market a 1.6 Tb/s Coherent-Lite pluggable to help cloud and data center providers cope with the expected growth in cloud, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) related traffic. ...

India's Vodafone Idea has awarded a huge $3.6 billion deal for mobile network equipment to Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung. ...

Coherent announces the general availability and production release of the industry's first 100G ZR QSFP28 digital coherent optics (DCO) transceiver....

Sivers Semiconductors and Ayar Labs will hold a joint live demonstration, showing the Sivers Semiconductors 16-wavelength distributed feedback (DFB) laser array integrated into the Ayar Labs SuperNova? multi-wavelength light source for 16 Tbps of bi-directional bandwidth – a level of bandwidth essential for AI sca...

The Open XR Optics Forum is excited to announce the publication of its Management Requirements White Paper. With 17 authors of 13 forum member companies, this pivotal document provides an in-depth evaluation of the management interface and API requirements essential for advancing the development and adoption of next ge...