Remember those World War II Navy movies where a sailor on one ship signaled to another by flashing Morse code with a large, shutter-equipped spotlight? The receiving ship then flashed the same message ...

POET Technologies is climbing the value ladder, transitioning from supplying optical engines to offering full optical transceiver modules. Its optical interposer combines photonic and electronic parts ...

A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is ...

In a landmark achievement for network bandwidth transport, Arelion and Ciena have successfully completed the world’s first 1.6 terabits-per-second (Tb/s) wavelengths data transmission in a live ...

Nokia is understandably bullish on its recently closed $2.3 billion Infinera acquisition, which comes as the once staid optical networking space is set to surge. The deal officially closed earlier ...

Rapid deployment of high-speed, high-traffic fiber-optic networks is fueling the global economy. Bandwidth-hungry Internet, web-hosting, and e-commerce applications continue to force network growth.

Launch your career in optical communications with specialized optical networking courses from Optical Technology Training (OTT), delivered by FiberGuide. As optical networks grow increasingly ...

As it looks to support vastly increased data demand and enable hyperscale applications, Philippines fibre broadband and technology provider Converge ICT Solutions is deploying the Apollo optical ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...