The trial showed the ability to beam a signal further distances from a single point before needing to “regenerate” the light signal. The trial was conducted over Verizon’s commercial fiber network in ...

'We believe now is the right time to take a compelling inorganic step,' Nokia CEO and President Pekka Lundmark said in a statement. Less than a year after a massive layoff round, Nokia looks to remake ...

Communications hot topics include 800G, OpenZR+ optics, boosting energy-efficiency, and quantum networking. Conference highlight: Quant-Net researcher Inder Monga (second right) and team. A wave of ...

Optical Networks-on-Chip (ONoC) represent a paradigm shift in on-chip communication architectures, integrating optical interconnects to overcome the limitations of traditional electronic networks. By ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE) ("Lumentum"), a global leader in optical and photonic solutions for the cloud and networking markets, will unveil its latest ...

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 ...

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.

Nokia is set to acquire open optical networking solutions and advanced optical semiconductor producer Infinera to increase scale in optical networks and accelerate its product roadmap. The acquisition ...