Cisco and Acacia Communications have now reached an agreement regarding their proposed merger, with an amendment to the original agreement
European bandwidth infrastructure firm, euNetworks has acquired 100 per cent shares of duct and sub-duct based fibre network, The Loop Manchester from Gamma Telecom.
A new Bloomberg Intelligence report predicts a consolidation comeback in the European telecom market this year.
Optical technology vendor, Luna Innovations has acquired OptaSense from parent company, QinetiQ for £29m.
Belgian operator, Proximus has signed a partnership agreement with the EQT Infrastructure V fund. The partnership will form a new joint venture to design, build and maintain a FTTH network in Flanders.
Keely Portway counts down some of the most-viewed and industry-shaping news stories of 2020
Hitachi High-Tech is to acquire VLC Photonics, making it a subsidiary company through which it will continue to provide photonic integrated circuit (PIC) engineering services.
Digital network integrator, Sterlite Technologies (STL) has signed definitive agreements to acquire Italian interconnect vendor, Optotec.
Infrastructure semiconductor supplier, Marvell Technology Group has reached an agreement to acquire high-speed data movement specialist, Inphi.
AMD and Xilinx have entered into a definitive agreement for the former to acquire the latter in a $35bn transaction.
The plans for an economic recovery will undoubtedly need vast levels of public and private investment.
Leading industry lights talk to Keely Portway about the challenges and opportunities faced by the optical communications supply chain in the last 12 months, and predict what could lie ahead
Mark Lutkowitz on future 400ZR pricing, its impact on certain key vendors and the outlook for 400ZR+ and 800ZR
While the Covid-19 crisis clearly impacted infrastructure deployment in Europe in 2020, it also undoubtedly reinforced operators’ mid-term FTTH ambitions
The all-important multi-vendor interoperability can only be achieved via industry collaboration, finds Keely Portway
2020 has shown standards are key to building the networks of tomorrow, and that’s something to be excited about, argues Bernd Hesse
Keely Portway counts down some of the most-viewed and industry-shaping news stories of 2020
Large webscale internet content providers have undoubtedly been the wielders of power in recent years. The only thing greater for them, has been their hunger for data.
