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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new era of Silicon Valley runs on networking—and not the kind you find on LinkedIn. As the tech industry funnels billions into AI data centers, chip makers both big and small are ramping up ...

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 ...