Being the leading provider of optical transceivers over the past two decades, we know how fast open networking is changing. The need for more bandwidth is increasing across all industries, and solutio

Recently, the FCC announced its intent to establish the 5G Fund, which will provide up to $9 billion in funding for networks covering historically under several rural areas. This will supplant the pre

This year, the Iowa caucuses highlighted what we should expect in future elections. New technologies are already playing an increasingly larger role in our election process. However, as the Iowa caucu

A few years ago, an underwater cable broke, plunging a nation into Internet darkness. While some may say not having Facebook for a few hours is a positive thing, this was more than that, called “an

It's been quite a while since we have seen an evolution in transceiver interfaces. Does anyone remember the GBIC with its Duplex SC Interface? In 2001, Major equipment manufacturers standardized

Approved Networks, a brand of Legrand, provides a broad range of direct attach copper cables (DACs) and active optical cables (AOCs). This application note illustrates the use cases in the data center

It’s bad enough there are chip shortages, fiber shortages, hardware shortages and component shortages affecting the fiber optic industry. Now there’s another layer causing concern: a labor short

We are hearing the term “Coherent Optics” used liberally in relation to high bitrate transceivers – 200G, 400G, 800G and higher. So, what is a Coherent Optic? Coherent Optical Transmiss

For years now service providers have been using Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) to increase the capacity of fiber optic links. CWDM filters offer up to 18 ITU defined wavelengths and h

We understand the basic composition of a fiber optic cable — core, cladding, buffer — and that there are glass or plastic cores. Both zip light through them, but because this is technology,

As the calendar turns to 2022 and launch into a new era of work from home and work from anywhere, it’s a good time to look back at a bit of history to see how we’ve arrived at this point fro

It’s been just over a year since ChatGPT was made publicly available. According to a study by UBS Research, two months after its launch, the application reached over 100 Million users, makin