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Collaboration to deliver AI-driven spectrum monitoring solutions

By Optical Connections News Team

Anritsu and YOTASYS are collaborating to deliver advanced AI-enabled spectrum monitoring solutions. Under this collaboration, Anritsu provides the spectrum analyser hardware technology, while YOTASYS acts as system integrator, combining Anritsu’s RF hardware with its own AI, software and GPU-based processing capabilities. The offering combines three YOTASYS technologies: the Y9827A Inceptron Spectrum Analyzer, the Y9220A Agentic […]

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Nokia accelerates the next era of AI-native data centre networking

By Optical Connections News Team

Nokia launched its AI Networking Innovation Lab, a new centre designed to drive co-innovation with AI and cloud partners and accelerate the development of next-generation networking technologies for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Located within Nokia’s Sunnyvale, California facility, the lab serves as an innovation hub where Nokia will work across advanced AI networking technologies, architectures […]

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Broadband Forum publishes vision for AI in broadband

By Optical Connections News Team

Standards development organisation the Broadband Forum has released its vision for AI‑powered broadband of the future, setting the direction for intelligent broadband networks. While AI has already demonstrated its ability to transform our ‘online’ experience, the internet of the future will go much further, said the organisation. Its new ‘AI in Broadband Networks’ document outlines […]

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New partnership to accelerate advanced packaging and 3D IC innovation

By Optical Connections News Team

IC-Link by imec has joined the TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) 3DFabric® Alliance, to enhance its capabilities in advanced chip integration, and allow customers and the expanded 3DFabric ecosystem to leverage imec’s global ASIC services. As part of the TSMC OIP ecosystem, the 3DFabric Alliance enables 3D integrated circuit (IC) innovation, readiness and customer adoption […]

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Neos Networks, Cornerstone and StonesThro to power UK sovereign edge cloud

By Optical Connections News Team

Connectivity provider Neos Networks has announced that it is working with mobile infrastructure services provider Cornerstone to provide connectivity services to UK “microscaler” StonesThro to support its distributed sovereign edge cloud infrastructure. Unlike hyperscalers that centralise infrastructure in major data centres, StonesThro operates as a “microscaler”, distributing cloud and AI compute power to localised sites […]

Applications and Research

Trinity College Dublin makes chip-scale light tech breakthrough

By Optical Connections News Team

The Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) at Trinity College Dublin have developed a new light-based technology on a tiny chip that could help make data centres behind cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and global internet services faster and more efficient. In the new research, recently published in leading international journal Nature Communications, CRANN […]

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NVIDIA AI ecosystem expands through new Marvell partnership

By Optical Connections News Team

NVIDIA and Marvell Technology have announced a strategic partnership to connect Marvell to the NVIDIA AI factory and AI-RAN ecosystem through NVIDIA NVLink Fusion™. The partnership, including a $2 billion investment from NVIDIA in Marvell, aims to provide customers building on NVIDIA architectures with greater choice and flexibility in developing next-generation infrastructure. The companies will […]

Technologies and Products

Corning expands AI data centre connectivity portfolio

By Optical Connections News Team

Corning announced a collaboration with US Conec to become a licensee of a solution that allows for higher fibre counts in tighter spaces inside data centres. The addition of PRIZM® TMT optical ferrule technology expands Corning’s full spectrum of high-density optical connectivity solutions for next generation AI networks. “AI infrastructure is pushing optical connectivity into new […]

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BBF to standardise how operators integrate AI in broadband networks

By Optical Connections News Team

The Broadband Forum has launched a new initiative to help service providers integrate AI into their networks to improve network performance, reliability, and efficiency. With AI already revolutionising how data is processed and how decisions are made across various domains, the ‘AI in Broadband Networks’ project aims to provide a high-level framework to help service […]

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Voyant Photonics introduces first fully solid-state 4D FMCW LiDAR

By Optical Connections News Team

Chip manufacturer Voyant Photonics has announced its Helium™ Platform of fully solid-state LiDAR sensors and modules to help unlock scalable, cost-effective sensing and high-resolution 4D point cloud data for the emerging era of Physical AI. The solution is built on a silicon photonics chip, leveraging a breakthrough architecture designed to deliver unprecedented performance, reliability and […]

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New strategic partnership set to advance co-packaged optics for hyperscalers

By Optical Connections News Team

A new strategic partnership has been recently signed between Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) and Ayar Labs to explore critical areas to enable future co-packaged optics (CPO) deployment. By integrating Ayar Labs’ TeraPHY™ optical engines into GUC’s advanced packaging and ASIC workflow, the companies are paving the way for high-bandwidth, low-latency, power-efficient optical interconnects in next-generation […]