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 ...

The AI build-out is rewriting the fibre comms rulebook – between data centres and within data centres, down to the rack.

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 ...

Spanish optical networking startup iPronics has raised €20 million ($21m) in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Triatomic Capital, with participation from Fine Structure Ventures (Fidelity ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructures continue to place stringent requirements on IT infrastructures, particularly from a networking perspective, AI hyperscaler CoreWeave has selected comms ...

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 ...

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 ...

Building any complex system is a sum of its parts, but the most foundational element is the thing that binds them together. In brick, it’s mortar; in wood, it’s nails; and in data centers, it’s ...

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 ...

Microsoft has revealed it has collaborated with Ciena to define a blueprint for what it calls a zero-trust tiered optical network architecture. In a white paper explaining the nature of the ...