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NeoPhotonics announces availability of 64GBaud High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator

By Peter Dykes

NeoPhotonics has announced general availability and volume production of its 64 GBaud High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator (HB-CDM). This CDM joins NeoPhotonics’ 64 GBaud Coherent Intradyne Receiver (ICR) and ultra-narrow linewidth tunable laser to enable single channel 600G data transmission over data centre interconnect (DCI) distances of approximately 80 km using 64 QAM. These components […]

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PCCW brings software-defined fibre offering to Australian market

By Antony Savvas

Console Connect, the software-defined connectivity platform from PCCW Global, has been launched into the Australian market. Console Connect competes against similar interconnetion technology from the likes of Megaport, Equinix and PackFabric. Customers can now use Console Connect in multiple data centres in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane. PCCW Global is the international operating division of HKT, […]

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Japanese mobile carrier picks Nokia optical gear for first 5G cloud-native network

By John Williamson

Japan’s newest mobile carrier, Rakuten Mobile, will deploy Nokia’s 1830 Photonic Service Switch to power its reconfigurable photonic mesh mobile backhaul network. The carrier is set to launch the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualised cloud-native 5G mobile network, and the deployment of Nokia’s coherent and optical component technologies is designed to enable the ready growth of network bandwidth […]

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CST Global extends its silicon photonics portfolio in collaboration with imec.

By Peter Dykes

Sivers IMA Holding AB, has announced that its photonics business unit, CST Global, in collaboration with its research and innovation partner, imec, is expanding its silicon photonics portfolio. The joint technology offering is expected to encourage the uptake of silicon photonics in cost-sensitive applications, including optical interconnects, optical sensing, cloud computing and beyond. Silicon photonics […]

Applications and Research

Infinera and Corning Achieve 800G Across 800 Kilometres with ICE6

By Peter Dykes

In what has become a stream of such announcements, Infinera and Corning have announced delivering an 800Gbps single wavelength with Infinera’s sixth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE6) technology across 800 kilometres on Corning’s TXF® optical fibre. The success of Infinera and Corning’s 800G trial demonstrates the benefits of an industry leading coherent 800G solution with superior […]