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 ...

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 ...

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 latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Oxfordshire-headquartered Salience Labs is hoping to tap into a market that some analysts say could ...

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.

Ciena Corporation CIEN and Nokia NOK are both established players in the telecommunications equipment industry, with a strong focus on optical networking solutions used by service providers worldwide.

“I always said that we really need a few big vendors because you need volume to really be healthy in this market," Dell'Oro Group's Jimmy Yu said. Nokia’s recent move to acquire optical networking ...

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 ...