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Converge Digest tracks the networks, optics, silicon, data centers and systems powering the AI era—with 25 years of context.
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Coherent’s PhotonLink platform combines lasers, silicon photonics, VCSELs, specialty fiber and complete optical assemblies for CPO, NPO and future chip-to-chip AI connectivity.
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Molex introduces the 16-fiber VersaBeam Mini expanded-beam connector, packing up to 3,456 fibers into 1RU for AI data centers, CPO, optical backplanes and high-density…
Semtech joins the XPO MSA with a portfolio of 200G/lane TIAs and Mach-Zehnder modulator drivers targeting 12.8 Tbps liquid-cooled pluggable optical modules for next-generation…
T-Mobile and Jio have established what they describe as the world’s first 5G Standalone roaming connection, using Syniverse for secure interoperability between their 5G…
ECOC 2026 brings the optical communications industry to Málaga for a program spanning AI cluster connectivity, 1.6T and 3.2T optics, NPO/CPO, coherent networking, quantum…
Huawei unveiled the Atlas 960E, a 4,096-NPU AI SuperPoD using 5,500 Hi-ONE 7.2-Tbit/s near-packaged optical engines, while advancing Ascend 960DT availability to Q1 2027.
Coherent has expanded its Pluggable Optical Line System with full C-band amplification supporting 32 DWDM wavelengths, 25.6 Tbps per fiber pair and 2–200 km…
SENKO, Advantest and VIAVI are demonstrating an automated 200 Gbps-per-lane test environment designed to address connector durability, repeatability and throughput requirements for high-volume CPO…
EXFO's LTS-1600 Series provides one to four independent 1.6T ports and up to 6.4 Tbps of test capacity for validating next-generation Ethernet transceivers, cables…
Nokia will demonstrate 1.6T LPO, preview 448G-per-lane transmission toward 3.2T optics, and show InP and hybrid SiPh-TFLN coherent frontends at ECOC 2026.
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