News and BusinessThe Consortium for On-Board Optics (COBO) has announced the creation of the Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) Working Group which will encourage the adoption of co-packaged optics by developing technical guidance and standards for CPO implementations. This effort focuses on the optical connectivity and remote laser sources necessary to make co-packaged optics a reality and it is […]
Technologies and ProductsLumentum is showing new products at the virtual ECOC 2020 event including its 100G PAM4 DMLs, latest HB-CDM variant, and new integrated coherent TROSA, which supports up to 69 Gbaud symbol. Additionally, the company has launched its high-performance datacom lasers chips which it says are now in significant production capacity. Lumentum Holdings Inc. said the company […]
Technologies and ProductsHUBER+SUHNER has debuted what it says is its most versatile distribution box – the MASTERLINE Flex Box (MLFB) – offering operators greater efficiency when deploying new wireless infrastructure. The MASTERLINE Flex Box features plug and play functionality with multiple mounting options, providing a number of placement possibilities to achieve cost-effective, flexible, high-capacity deployments. […]
Technologies and ProductsVector Photonics has chosen the ECOC exhibition as the platform to announce the development of its PCSEL-based, 1310nm / 25G chip, specifically targeted at datacentres. It is the first, commercial development of the semiconductor laser start-up company’s revolutionary PCSEL (Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers) technology. Vector Photonics CEO, Neil Martin, said, “ECOC is Europe’s largest […]
News and BusinessTelecom operator Adamo has chosen Ekinops’ FlexRate™ optical transport solution as part of a €250 million infrastructure investment which will deliver high-speed fibre optic internet and telecommunications services to homes and businesses in less densely populated areas across Spain. “Adamo’s mission is to provide greater internet connectivity to Spain’s rural areas and smaller cities which […]
News and BusinessHUBER+SUHNER is partnering with Comtec, one of the United Kingdom’s largest value-added distributors of IP infrastructure, to provide smart, simple and scalable fibre optic solutions for communication networks in both the carrier and enterprise markets. As a leading supplier of high-quality communications systems across the data centre, LAN, WAN and access network markets, HUBER+SUHNER says […]
Technologies and ProductsTest, monitoring and analytics vendor EXFO Inc. has introduced a new fibre inspection scope designed to vastly improve multi-fibre connector testing in data centres and other telecoms networks. The ability to quickly and easily inspect connectors has never been more important as operators transition to 5G mobility and 400/800 Gbps networking. Research has shown that […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation has added Class 60 versions of its Coherent Driver-Modulator (CDM) and Intradyne Coherent Receiver (Micro-ICR) to its suite of High Bandwidth Coherent components, addressing the next generation of 100+ Gbaud systems to meet the ongoing growth in demand for bandwidth, especially between cloud data centres. Optical performance improvement due to increased baud rates […]
Technologies and ProductsIskratel has released its SI3000 Lumia XG8, a compact, eight-port XGS-PON Optical Line Terminal (OLT), optimised for smaller fibre-access deployments in residential, business and backhaul use cases.Supporting any service delivery model in single or multi-provider environments, the compact XGS-PON OLT allows operators to virtualise the network without hardware replacement. Therefore, operators can skip an entire […]
Technologies and ProductsRibbon Communications, which recently with ECI Telecom Group, has added two new products to its to its Apollo 9900 Optical Transport Network (OTN) switching portfolio, the Apollo 9901X platform and the MIO700 blade. The new solutions extend OTN switching from core to metro networks cost-efficiently. The company says it’s 9901X access OTN switch provides the […]
News and BusinessEuropean operators resumed purchases of optical and packet transport hardware in 3Q20 as COVID-related supply chain and operational delays eased, according to the most recent Transport Hardware Report from research firm Cignal AI. At the same time, North American spending weakness spread to the optical hardware segment as the region’s operators paused capex after aggressive […]
Technologies and ProductsPacketLight Networks, has released the PL-4000T transponder/muxponder, which delivers any mix of 100GbE, OTU4 or 400GbE services over 400G wavelengths for high capacity DCI, metro, and long-haul applications for service providers, enterprise, campus, government, and cloud computing networks. The PL-4000T modular, standards-based device increases network capacity and enables flexible pay-as-you-grow architecture by delivering either a […]
Technical FeaturesSimilar to consumer electronic devices, optical transceiver modules have followed a path towards size reduction with increased performance and functionality. Driven by data center and service provider applications requiring high-bandwidth, high-density, and low-power optical interconnects, coherent optics suppliers’ goal of meeting these requirements has led to compact, volume-manufacturable designs. These requirements have also helped drive […]
News and BusinessTelia Carrier has added another new diverse and latency-optimised DWDM route in the U.S., between Chicago and Denver via Des Moines, IA and Omaha, NE. The expansion is part of the company’s ongoing organic buildout of its North American network and commitment to provide customers both direct and diverse route options. The project also includes […]
News and BusinessSubmarine optical fibre management company Pioneer Consulting, the full-service submarine fibre optic telecommunications consulting and project management company, announces successful completion of owner’s representation on the CrossChannel Fibre project marine route survey on behalf of project developer Crosslake Fibre. The survey, conducted by EGS, is a major construction milestone for the first fibre optic submarine […]
News and BusinessBlue Planet, a division of Ciena, is providing BT with intelligent automation software as part of the global service provider’s drive to deliver market-leading user experience for its multinational enterprise customers. The software will help BT provide its customers with quicker and more reliable access to cloud-based collaboration tools, such as file sharing and messaging […]
News and BusinessInfinera has joined the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) Global Forum, a consortium formed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Intel Corporation, and Sony Corporation to collaborate on innovations to enable next-generation networks in key areas such as photonics, computation, and network infrastructure. Infinera will play a pivotal role in contributing to IOWN […]
News and BusinessCiena and NTT Com will deploy a single-wave 800G line speed solution for Datacentre Interconnect (DCI) using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme® optical platform, it has been announced. To accommodate the rapid growth of 5G, gaming and cloud services, NTT Com will upgrade its DCI network to be more programmable, resilient and high-capacity. “Since its inception, […]
Applications and ResearchSilicon photonics researchers from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have demonstrated the first all-silicon optical transmitter at 100Gbps and beyond without the use of digital signal processing. The optical modulator almost doubles the maximum data rate of current state-of-the-art devices, demonstrating the potential for low power low-cost all-silicon solutions that avoid complicating […]
News and BusinessHitachi High-Tech Corporation (HHT) has announced it has acquired VLC Photonics S.L. as a wholly-owned subsidiary, which will continue to provide Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) engineering services as part of the Company’s broader offering. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In the optical communications market, higher speeds and increased bandwidth are required to […]