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Scaling Photonics to New Heights: Lumentum at OFC 2023

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Saturday, March 4, 2023

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumentum Holdings Inc. ("Lumentum"), today announced its wide-scale presence at this year's Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), the largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications, being held in San Diego, California from March 5 - 9, 2023. Lumentum's booth will be situated on the cityside of the convention center, Lobby D, across from the OFC registration entrance at #3415.

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Lumentum's booth will be situated on the cityside of the convention center, Lobby D, across from the OFC registration entrance at #3415 .
The CSDM era will be enabled by innovation at the photonic, optical device, and system levels, all key areas in which Lumentum excels.
Lumentum enables customers to continue to scale network data capacity with its highly differentiated portfolio of photonic products and emerging technologies.
Lumentum iCL WSS samples are shipping to lead customers and aligned with production timelines based on customer requests.

Infinera Launches Its Next-generation 1.2 Tb/s ICE7 Optical Engine and Expansion of Its Industry-leading GX Compact Modular Platform

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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) unveiled today the evolution of its industry-leading GX Series Compact Modular Platform solution with new innovations including its next-generation high-performance 1.2 Tb/s optical engine ICE7 and a revolutionary multi-haul optical line system.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) unveiled today the evolution of its industry-leading GX Series Compact Modular Platform solution with new innovations including its next-generation high-performance 1.2 Tb/s optical engine ICE7 and a revolutionary multi-haul optical line system.
This latest set of enhancements highlights the power and flexibility of the GX platform, providing network operators with a seamless and future-proof end-to-end networking solution.
Building on its history of groundbreaking innovation in high-speed coherent optical networking solutions, Infinera introduces its latest-generation optical engine, the 1.2 Tb/s ICE7.
In conjunction with Infinera’s ICE7 1.2 Tb/s optical engine, the GX multi-haul optical line system provides nearly 100 Tb/s on a single fiber pair.

Coherent to Showcase Award-Winning 100G and 400G Coherent Transceivers at OFC 2023

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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

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PITTSBURGH, March 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in transceivers for optical communications, today announced that it will showcase its award-winning 100G and 400G digital coherent optics (DCO) transceivers across a live network and in multiple locations in the exhibition area at OFC 2023 in San Diego, March 7-9, booth #3815.

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PITTSBURGH, March 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in transceivers for optical communications, today announced that it will showcase its award-winning 100G and 400G digital coherent optics (DCO) transceivers across a live network and in multiple locations in the exhibition area at OFC 2023 in San Diego, March 7-9, booth #3815.
Coherent expects to start shipping samples of the 100ZR QSPF28-DCO to customers shortly after OFC.
In a separate demonstration, Coherent will showcase its DCO transceivers operating on an Adtran/ADVA reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) network as part of OFCnet.
This will include an interoperability demonstration of Coherent’s and Acacia’s high transmitter output power 400G transceivers using the OpenZR+ protocol.

Fujitsu delivers sustainable terabit networking with launch of 1FINITY Ultra Optical System

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

TOKYO, Feb 22, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced the launch of its 1FINITY Ultra Optical System, a hyper-reliable optical transport platform delivering extreme performance and scalability with data rates of 1.2 terabits per second (Tbps) on a single wavelength, with future upgrade to 1.6 Tbps.

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TOKYO, Feb 22, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced the launch of its 1FINITY Ultra Optical System, a hyper-reliable optical transport platform delivering extreme performance and scalability with data rates of 1.2 terabits per second (Tbps) on a single wavelength, with future upgrade to 1.6 Tbps.
The 1FINITY Ultra Optical System achieves more than twice the speed of conventional products.
(7) Smart fiber cable system:
By using an optical backboard system in which optical fiber connections are pre-installed inside the device, optical fiber connections can be significantly reduced in front of the ROADM device.
Technology for measuring and analyzing the state of optical fibers (transmission line loss, distance, breaking point, connection loss, and reflection attenuation).

Ciena Unveils WaveLogic 6, Industry’s First 1.6Tb/s Coherent Optic Solution

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

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Marking another industry first in coherent optics, Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) announced the latest generation of its industry-leading WaveLogic technology.

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Marking another industry first in coherent optics, Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) announced the latest generation of its industry-leading WaveLogic technology.
The first coherent optical solution operating at 200GBaud, WL6e will maximize coverage of 800Gb/s connectivity across networks.
WaveLogic 6 Nano (WL6n), Ciena’s footprint-optimized solution, powers 400G-800G coherent pluggables to drive cost, power, and space efficiencies in 400G long-haul and 800G metro/regional applications, as well as interoperable 800ZR DCI applications.
Since its introduction in 2008, WaveLogic has already delivered 20 times more capacity over fiber and more than 85% reduction in Watts/Gbps for Ciena customers.

Coherent Introduces Ultra-Wideband Telemetry Module for Embedded Performance Monitoring in C+L-Band Optical Transport Systems

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Thursday, February 16, 2023

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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (Nasdaq: COHR), a leader in optical communications technology, today announced the introduction of its ultra-wideband telemetry module, or optical channel monitor (UWB-OCM), specifically designed for next-generation C+L-band optical transport systems.

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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (Nasdaq: COHR), a leader in optical communications technology, today announced the introduction of its ultra-wideband telemetry module, or optical channel monitor (UWB-OCM), specifically designed for next-generation C+L-band optical transport systems.
Optical communications networks are approaching the theoretical transmission capacity limit in optical fiber in the C-band.
An optical switch is embedded in the UWB-OCM module, enabling it to cycle through up to four monitoring points in ROADM or amplifier nodes.
These include wavelength selective switch (WSS) modules, optical amplifiers, optical monitoring modules, and passive optics.

Coherent Introduces 2x1000 mW Dual-Chip Pump Laser Module for Optical Amplification in Optical Networks

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (Nasdaq: COHR), a leader in pump laser technology for erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) deployed in optical networks, today announced the industry’s first dual-chip pump laser module with up to 1000 mW of output power per fiber in a 10-pin butterfly package.

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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (Nasdaq: COHR), a leader in pump laser technology for erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) deployed in optical networks, today announced the industry’s first dual-chip pump laser module with up to 1000 mW of output power per fiber in a 10-pin butterfly package.
Next-generation broadband and cloud services are driving the buildout of optical transport networks with technology that enables greater capacity and transmission reach.
Coherent’s new dual-chip pump laser modules enable a new class of optical amplifiers and amplified reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) line cards that have greater bandwidth, functionality, and transmission reach.
“What is uniquely differentiated about the new Coherent dual-chip pump laser module is that it embeds two next-generation high-power pump laser diodes in a small-form-factor 10-pin butterfly package,” said Dr. Richard Smart, Senior Vice President, ROADM products.

OFC 2023 to Host Live Optical and Data Networking Interoperability Demonstrations from Leading Global Organizations

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Thursday, February 9, 2023

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Four industry-leading organizations—COBO, Ethernet Alliance, OIF and Open ROADM—will host technology discussions and live multi-vendor interoperability demonstrations of the latest optical networking advancements at this year's Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition ( OFC ).

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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Four industry-leading organizations—COBO, Ethernet Alliance, OIF and Open ROADM—will host technology discussions and live multi-vendor interoperability demonstrations of the latest optical networking advancements at this year's Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition ( OFC ).
"These innovative multi-vendor interoperability demonstrations are a critical step in the continued advancement of the optical communications industry."
The Open ROADM specifications including YANG data models, address Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADM), transponder, and pluggable optics.
The Ethernet Alliance, OIF's 400ZR demo and OpenROADM interoperability demonstrations will all leverage OFCnet, OFC's high-speed optical network, enabling live demonstrations like these showcasing emerging technologies.

Coherent Appoints Dr. Beck Mason as Executive VP, Telecommunications

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Thursday, January 12, 2023

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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (Nasdaq: COHR), a global leader in materials, networking, and lasers, today announced that Dr. Beck Mason has joined the company as Executive Vice President, Telecommunications.

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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (Nasdaq: COHR), a global leader in materials, networking, and lasers, today announced that Dr. Beck Mason has joined the company as Executive Vice President, Telecommunications.
Dr. Mason will lead the Telecommunications Business Unit within the Networking Segment.
“We are excited to welcome Dr. Mason to Coherent,” said Dr. Vincent D. Mattera, Jr., Chair and CEO.
Prior to Oclaro, Dr. Mason held leadership positions at JDSU, Collinear, Finisar, Agere Systems, and Lucent Technologies Bell Labs.

NTT Conducts an Open APN PoC Jointly With Global Optical Product Vendors, Conducts a Field Test of On-Demand Wavelength Connection Technologies, and Enhances Its Capability to Develop Photonics-Electronics Devices

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Data centers or hospitals may serve as communication endpoints, and this architecture leverages optical transport and switching technologies.

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Data centers or hospitals may serve as communication endpoints, and this architecture leverages optical transport and switching technologies.
The PoC will validate wavelength connection creation/deletion functions and evaluate the performance of optical communications in terms of throughput, delay, and jitter.
NTT intends to incorporate the findings from the field test into future versions of IOWN GF Open APN Functional Architecture.
5 A function for connecting multiple optical fibers with different wavelength bands without electrical conversion while remaining in the wavelength connection.