Next-gen networking tech, sometimes powered by light instead of electricity, is emerging as a critical piece of AI ...

Remember those World War II Navy movies where a sailor on one ship signaled to another by flashing Morse code with a large, shutter-equipped spotlight? The receiving ship then flashed the same message ...

An analysis of what could happen if Ciena succeeds in its bid to purchase Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks unit. Nortel may be bankrupt but that doesn’t mean it has no value. The rise and fall of ...

As large enterprise and hyperscaler networks process increasingly greater AI workloads and other applications that require high-bandwidth performance, the demand for optical connectivity technologies ...

Driven by the rapid rise of AI and its demand for higher speeds and even higher densities, co-packaged optics (CPO) – where ...

Finnish networking giant Nokia Corp. has announced plans to acquire Infinera Corp. in a $2.3 billion deal that’s intended to help grow its optical networks business. The company, which makes ...

The latest announcement is out from Smartoptics Group AS ( (DE:3YL) ).

This week, the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) took place in Los Angeles. OFC always brings back memories of back in the days of the telecom bubble, like OFC 2000 in Baltimore when you could show up ...

“I always said that we really need a few big vendors because you need volume to really be healthy in this market," Dell'Oro Group's Jimmy Yu said. Nokia’s recent move to acquire optical networking ...

Freespace optics startup Taara is deploying a wireless network in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As part of a new partnership between the City of Rio de Janeiro and X Development, Google's research and ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...