Lumentum to acquire Coherent for $5.7bn
Lumentum is to acquire Coherent for $5.7bn, bringing the latter’s photonics and lasers businesses into the former’s telecom, datacom, and 3D sensing photonics businesses.
Lumentum is to acquire Coherent for $5.7bn, bringing the latter’s photonics and lasers businesses into the former’s telecom, datacom, and 3D sensing photonics businesses.
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.
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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.
Keely Portway reports on a recent webinar about how the telecoms sector is addressing the current shortage in skills, from recruitment through to keeping great candidates once they are on board
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