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SemiNex Corporation enables AI and Quantum Computing demand

By Optical Connections News Team

SemiNex Corporation, a U.S. developer and manufacturer of indium phosphide (InP) photonic devices, has announced a major expansion of its manufacturing operations, tripling its production, automated test and inspection, and cleanroom capacity to support accelerating demand from the artificial intelligence (AI) data centre, high-performance computing, and quantum computing markets. The expansion positions SemiNex to scale […]

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Enabling next-generation free-space optical communications

By Optical Connections News Team

Taara, a graduate of X, Google’s Moonshot Factory, and a leader in high-speed, high-capacity wireless optical communications, has launched the industry’s first link planning product developed specifically for next-generation free-space optical communications. Taara Link Planner brings nearly a decade of research and development originating at X into a publicly accessible platform for network operators, infrastructure […]

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Lightpath anchors Easter Pennsylvania fibre expansion

By Optical Connections News Team

Lightpath has secured a second infrastructure tenant on its previously announced 100% underground multi-conduit system fibre build in Eastern Pennsylvania, anchoring the expansion with a leading multinational data centre developer and operator and reinforcing the investment case behind the company’s Susquehanna-region network. The new tenant leverages more than 60% of Lightpath’s combined Eastern Pennsylvania in- […]

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Brightspeed launches 8-gig fibre for AI businesses

By Optical Connections News Team

Fibre builder Brightspeed has announced an expansion of its fibre portfolio with the launch of its 8 Gig speed tier, providing organisations with the network infrastructure needed to support increasingly data-intensive, AI-powered operations. “AI is fundamentally changing how businesses work and it’s changing what businessowners should expect from their network,” said Jeff Lowney, president of […]

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Lightpath to deliver fibre to Michigan and Wisconsin data centres

By Optical Connections News Team

Network operator Lightpath has announced that its fibre builds for two hyperscale data centre campuses in Saline, Michigan and Port Washington, Wisconsin are now under construction. The deployments extend its AI-grade network to meet surging capacity demand driven by artificial intelligence. Each campus is planned to exceed one gigawatt of capacity. Lightpath will provide triverse […]

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FiberCop and Nokia to transform fibre networks into advanced monitoring platforms

By Optical Connections News Team

Wholesale operator FiberCop and Nokia have signed an agreement to test the use of optical fibre as a distributed sensor, capable of detecting climate events, anomalies and potential faults. The collaboration involves joint research and testing activities on solutions that enable fibre not only to transmit data, but also, thanks to artificial intelligence, to detect […]

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Wave Photonics announces OptoCompiler compatibility

By Optical Connections News Team

Wave Photonics has made all the Process Design Kits (PDK) developed or managed through its PDK management platform are now compatible with Synopsys OptoCompiler. OptoCompiler is the industry’s first unified electronic and photonic design platform, combining dedicated photonic technology with Synopsys’ industry-proven electronic design capabilities, including schematic-driven layout, photonic circuit simulation, and verification, enabling designers […]

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Keysight expands photonic design automation portfolio

By Optical Connections News Team

Keysight Technologies completed the acquisition of VPIphotonics on June 9, 2026, adding system-level simulation to its photonic design automation portfolio and enabling optical and electrical engineers to advance designs from component to complete link within a single environment. Demand for silicon photonics and co-packaged optics continue to grow across data centre and AI infrastructure markets. […]

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FTTH Council Europe unveils new leadership and renewed strategic vision

By Optical Connections News Team

The 2026 Spring General Assembly of the FTTH Council Europe brought together industry leaders and stakeholders from its pan-European membership to set strategic priorities, renew the organisation’s leadership, and confirm a restructured Committee landscape reflecting the Council’s expanding scope. The General Assembly resulted in the composition of a new Board of Directors, including a new […]

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AMD and Rackspace to phase deployment of 30MW of AI compute

By Optical Connections News Team

AMD and Rackspace Technology®, a global enterprise AI infrastructure and solutions provider, have recently signed a definitive agreement for the phased deployment of an initial 30 MW footprint dedicated to AMD-based compute deployments across Rackspace’s global data centres beginning in late 2026 through 2028. The agreement operationalizes the Memorandum of Understanding announced May 7, 2026, and […]

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New benchmark for quantum safe Transatlantic data transmission

By Optical Connections News Team

Colt Technology Services and Ciena have completed one of the fastest quantum safe data transmissions ever demonstrated and the fastest across a transatlantic route. The landmark trial successfully protected live data running across 6900km of Colt’s subsea and terrestrial network between New York and London with Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) encryption solution. The trial […]

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Nokia announces major expansion of U.S. semiconductor advanced test and packaging to bolster AI growth

By Optical Connections News Team

Nokia announced a major expansion of its advanced test and packaging (ATP) operations in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The investment will increase domestic production capacity of the optical networking technologies that power scalable AI infrastructure connectivity across the United States. The expansion is expected to nearly double Nokia’s Pennsylvania workforce to more than 500 jobs in engineering, […]

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Nebius chooses Kao Data for major AI infrastructure deployment

By Optical Connections News Team

Kao Data, a developer and operator of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing, has announced a multi-megawatt (MW) AI infrastructure deployment with Nebius at its Harlow data centre campus. The 22MW, 10-year agreement will support AI innovation within the UK’s world-leading academic and research communities, and the roll-out of the Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan – reinforcing Kao Data’s […]

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Ayar Labs joins NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for CPO for AI infrastructure

By Optical Connections News Team

Ayar Labs, a CPO solutions provider for AI scale-up, announced it has joined the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion ecosystem, making its products optically and electrically compatible with NVIDIA optical and SerDes technologies. This allows hyperscalers and system innovators to build optically-connected AI infrastructure around NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion platform and partner ecosystem. As AI factories scale to […]