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    Lightwave OFC 2025 Video Show Daily - Day 2

    April 2, 2025
    Lightwave+BTR explores the intersection of AI and optics in an interactive industry roundtable. Meanwhile, AI startup Retym raises $180 million and the Open ROADM MSA demonstrates...
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    Fiberstamp earns high scores on Lightwave and BTR's 2025 Innovation Reviews

    March 27, 2025
    Fiberstamp earned high score status in the 2025 Lightwave+BTR's Innovation Reviews for two of its products: 100G QSFP28 DWDM1 O-Band Silicon Photonics and the 800G QSFP-DD CWDM8...
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    Sumitomo Electric Lightwave’s Transit Tunnel Optical Network Solution

    March 27, 2025
    Sumitomo Electric Lightwave's (SEL) Transit Tunnel Optical Networking Solutions help customers overcome the challenges inherent in densely populated last-mile fiber deployments...
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    SENKO Advanced Components’ Detachable Precision Alignment Device (PAD) system

    March 27, 2025
    SENKO Advanced Components’ Detachable Precision Alignment Device (PAD) system introduces detachability and compatibility to address optical connectivity for co-packaged ...
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    Building Broadband: altafiber accelerates Dublin, Ohio fiber build; Blue Stream Fiber and Cape Coral establish public-private broadband partnership

    March 27, 2025
    In this latest issue of Building Broadband, we’re tracking new broadband deployments from altafiber, Blue Stream, Comcast, Fidium, Intrepid, Metronet, Ripple, TDS and WOW!
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    Switch completes two securitized financing transactions totaling $3.5 billion

    March 27, 2025
    The proceeds will go towards acquisition financing debt from a 2022 take-private transaction.