The 2026 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), the world’s largest annual gathering for optical networking and communications professionals, takes place next week at the Los ...

As AI workloads drive unprecedented scale-up and scale-out architectures, data center networks are rapidly transitioning to ...

Adtran today announced that it will showcase its latest optical innovations at OFC 2026, taking place from March 15 to 19 in ...

Sold-out exhibition, as AI-driven network demand fuels surge of major product debuts and breakthroughs.” OFC is expecting a strong slate of exhibitor innovations. A wave of optical innovations will be ...

Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) is up 8.9% in Tuesday’s session, climbing from $318.54 to $346.89 intraday. Lumentum (NASDAQ:LITE) and Coherent (NYSE:COHR) are right behind, up 7.77% and 7.02% respectively. The ...

Cisco adds Open Transport 3000 Series, a multi-rail open line system that integrates optical networking components.

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 ...

Upgrading optical networks for the AI era is the right move. The ITU-T has officially released the ION-2030 vision, defining key capabilities, application scenarios, and standardization roadmap for ...

Juniper Networks launched an optical networking platform that disaggregates the optical line system hardware from network control software. The cloud-based system includes the open, programmable ...

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 ...

Juniper Networks is making more moves in optical networking, today announcing its purchase of Aurrion, an innovator in silicon photonics technology. It did not disclose terms of the deal. Juniper’s ...

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 ...