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09 Nov 2023 Canadian startup reveals strategic collaboration and $100 M venture funding round. The quantum computing startup Photonic has raised $100 million in new venture funding, and agreed a strategic collaboration with Microsoft aimed at scaling the technology rapidly. Established by Simon Fraser University researchers Stephanie Simmons and…

08 Nov 2023 Demand for faster transceivers helps offset market weakness impacting industrial laser and instrumentation sales. Photonics technology giant Coherent has posted sales of $1.05 billion for the quarter ending September 30, down 20 per cent on the same period last year as demand for industrial lasers remains…

07 Nov 2023 …and DoD awards contract to Mosaic to work with AIM Photonics to develop photonic interposers. Leonardo DRS, has received an order for continued production of its next-generation thermal weapon sights for the U.S. Army. The production order for more than $134 million was made…

06 Nov 2023 Source is promising route to precise detectors of trace pollutants, hazardous gases. Scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a novel method to produce intense and ultra-fast lasers, which they say “holds promise for making precise devices that can speed…

The Italian telecommunications operator is seeking to sell its fixed network to pare down a huge debt pile. Telecom Italia on Sunday approved an offer by US investment fund KKR for its fixed-line network, infuriating its main shareholder which vowed to contest the “illegal” decision….

02 Nov 2023 To accelerate optical data center speed and scalability; union set to deliver five-fold expansion in cloud business. Diverse photonics technologies company Lumentum is to acquire Hong Kong-headquarterd Cloud Light, which makes fiber optic equipment and automotive sensors, in a transaction valued at $750 million,…

02 Nov 2023 Chip giant will instead focus its efforts on components needed to scale artificial intelligence applications. Global manufacturing specialist Jabil has acquired Intel’s silicon photonics pluggable transceiver module business, enabling it to expand its presence in the supply chain for data centers. The business, built…

A free-space optical communication experiment involves a pair of FSO devices with one (“Alice”) fixed on the top floor of a building, while the other (“Bob”) is loaded on a radio-controlled electric vehicle so that it can move around to vary the distance of the…

It’s the season for space-based cellular service, courtesy of a recent string of announcements from companies around the world. Huawei upgraded its China-only satellite service from messaging to video calling this summer using its latest handset, the Mate 60 Pro, while AST SpaceMobile made its…

Cox Communications inked a deal to buy the commercial services segment of Segra, a privately-held fiber infrastructure provider based out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Bloomberg sources estimate the deal at about $3 billion. Cox is buying the business…

Acquisition to accelerate Segra’s long-term strategy, meet growing demand for broadband infrastructure ATLANTA & CHARLOTTE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cox Communications has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Charlotte, N.C.-based Segra, one of the largest privately-held fiber infrastructure providers in the U.S. Cox will acquire Segra’s commercial…

In a mobile network, the core controls sessions, mobility, authentication, policy and more. In short, it is fundamental to how your smartphone or Internet of Things (IoT) device interacts with the network. To build a 5G standalone (SA) network that can offer advanced services, a…

DALLAS Up your (speed) game! AT&T Fiber customers on our entry and mid-level plans will get a 200Mbps boost to their upload and download speeds. Our 100Mbps plan will now become Internet 300 the fastest entry speed at 300Mbps compared to major cable providers….

Bell Canada began rolling out 400G wavelength service on its fiber backbone, tapping Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme technology to do the heavy lifting.Ivan Mihaljevic, President of Bell Canada’s BCE Global division, told Fierce the move is targeted at better serving large cloud providers, operators, content…

22 Apr 2021 Silicon nitride-based PICs offer “record low optical losses” as well as smaller footprints. Integrated photonic chips are usually made from silicon that is abundant and has good optical properties. But silicon cannot perform every required function in integrated photonics, so new material platforms have…

Offering proof that Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX) and DOCSIS 4.0 technologies have taken a big step closer to prime time, Comcast said recent lab trials powered by a new system-on-chip (SoC) from Broadcom delivered symmetrical speeds of more than 4 Gbit/s. That…

21 Apr 2021 Mszczonów site to be one of the largest optical fiber manufacturers in EU, to open in 2022. Optical materials giant Corning has announced plans to build a state-of-the-art optical fiber manufacturing facility in Mszczonów, Poland. The new facility, which will be one of the…

Analysts from New Street Research and MoffettNathanson offered very different views of Frontier Communications’ future prospects, initiating coverage as the company emerges from bankruptcy.During an investor event on Monday, New Street Research analyst Jonathan Chaplin characterized Frontier’s situation as “undoubtedly the most exciting equity story…

Spirent Communications worked with optical transceiver maker InnoLight Technology to validate 800G optical transceiver interoperability on a test link that emulated hyperscale data center traffic, the companies announced Monday.  The companies described the project in a press release as successfully demonstrating an 800G link-up and…

Last year, while the optical transport market seemed focused on 400 Gigabit, Ciena became the first vendor to roll out 800G technology, capable of sending up to 800 billion bits per second over a single optical channel. 600G was widely viewed as the logical next step…