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 ...

As large enterprise and hyperscaler networks process increasingly greater AI workloads and other applications that require high-bandwidth performance, the demand for optical connectivity technologies ...

Passive Optical Networks (PONs) have established themselves as a pivotal technology in the evolution of access networks, offering a cost-effective and energy-efficient solution to support ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ciena Corp. (NYSE: CIEN) is one such company which revealed strong growth in its Optical Networking product solutions towards ...

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 ...

The optical communications industry is experiencing a transformative moment, with artificial intelligence workloads driving unprecedented demand for high-speed optical connectivity. The shift to 800G ...

Finnish networking giant Nokia Corp. has announced plans to acquire Infinera Corp. in a $2.3 billion deal that’s intended to help grow its optical networks business. The company, which makes ...

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.