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The Future of 5G Fronthaul

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The 5G network revolution promises to fulfill the capacity needs that previous cellular generations could no longer provide to the ever-increasing customer demands. This network generation is expected to revolutionize the concept of telecommunication and bring the most anticipated services of larger bandwidth, higher speed, and reduced latency as part of the modern cellular network.

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Industrial Hardening: Coherent Goes Outdoors

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Industrial Hardening: Coherent Goes Outdoors

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The global optical transceiver market is expected to double in size by 2026, and coherent pluggables will play a significant role in this growth as they will constitute roughly a third of those sales. While coherent is now an established solution in data center interconnects and long haul networks, it is also expected to start

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Wafer Scale Photonics for a Coherent Future

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Wafer Scale Photonics for a Coherent Future

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The advances in electronic and optical integration have brought down the size and cost of the coherent transceivers, packing more bits than ever into smaller areas. However, progress in the cost and bandwidth density of transceivers might slow down soon. Electronics has achieved amazing breakthroughs in the last two decades to continue increasing transistor densities and keeping

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Networks Go Coherent

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When will the Network Edge go Coherent?

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Article first published 27 July 2022, updated 12 April 2023. Network carriers want to provide communications solutions in all areas: mobile access, cable networks, and fixed access to business customers. They want to provide this extra capacity and innovative and personalized connectivity and entertainment services to their customers. Deploying only legacy direct detect technologies will

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Scaling Up Live Event Coverage with 5G Technology

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Everyone who has attended a major venue or event, such as a football stadium or concert, knows the pains of getting good Internet access in such a packed venue. There are too many people and not enough bandwidth. Many initial use cases for 5G have been restricted to achieving much higher speeds, allowing users to

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How To Make a Photonic Integrated Circuit

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Leveraging the Power of External Foundries in Photonics

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Working with a world-class high-volume foundry makes scaling up from low to high volume as easy as putting a purchase order in place. Instead of having to buy equipment, develop processes, and train operators over many years, a fabless photonics developer can leverage foundries who already have these capabilities and knowledge. Thanks to wafer scale

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The Growth of Business Ethernet Services

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The increasing use of data and fiercely price-conscious and multimedia-hungry business subscribers can limit revenue opportunities for the network provider industry. Providers must therefore look elsewhere to grow their customer base, open new revenue streams, and boost margins. So how can they adapt their business strategies and achieve growth objectives? Just as operators scale up

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Photonic System-on-Chip is the Future

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How to Increase Bandwidth Density in Photonics

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In the past, optical transceivers were too bulky, too expensive, and not efficient enough, so they could only be used for long-haul telecom networks or data centers with massive bandwidth requirements. Electronic and photonic integration broke this paradigm, miniaturizing optical transceivers to the size of a large USB stick and reducing their cost. Through these

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How Many DWDM Channels Do You Really Need?

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Optical fiber and dense wavelength division multiplex (DWDM) technology are moving towards the edges of networks. In the case of new 5G networks, operators will need more fiber capacity to interconnect the increased density of cell sites, often requiring replacing legacy time-division multiplexing transmission with higher-capacity DWDM links. In the case of cable and other

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The Future of Passive Optical Networks

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Like every other telecom network, cable networks had to change to meet the growing demand for data. These demands led to the development of hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) networks in the 1990s and 2000s. In these networks, optical fibers travel from the cable company hub and terminate in optical nodes, while coaxial cable connects the last

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