Regulatory News

1. Ting To Bring Crazy Fast Fiber Internet® To Culver City, CA 11/17/2020

   Ting Internet, a division of Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX, TSX: TC) is expanding its fiber Internet service in California. Culver City joins Solana Beach (announced November 2019), and Fullerton (announced April 2019), to become the third Ting Internet town in California, and 12th in the U.S.

2. EMCORE Now Shipping Its Optiva Q/V-Band (2 MHz-60 GHz) Fiber Optic Links 11/10/2020

   EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ: EMKR), a leading provider of advanced mixed-signal products that serve the aerospace & defense and broadband communications markets, announced today that it is now shipping its Optiva Q/V-Band fiber optic links for applications from 2 MHz to 60 GHz.

3. Seaborn Deploys Infinera To Launch AMX-1 Submarine Network Services Connecting US And Brazil 10/20/2020

   Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) and Seaborn Networks (Seaborn), a leading developer-owner-operator of submarine fiber optic cable systems, announced today the launch of new submarine network services on Seaborn’s AMX-1 submarine network segment connecting the U.S. and Brazil.

4. High Pressure Is Key For Better Optical Fibers 10/19/2020

   Optical fiber data transmission can be significantly improved by producing the fibers, made of silica glass, under high pressure, researchers from Japan and the US report in the journal npj Computational Materials.

5. InstarAGF Agrees To Acquire LS Networks 10/15/2020

   InstarAGF Asset Management Inc. (“InstarAGF”), today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of LS Networks (the “Company”), a leading fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider in the Pacific Northwest, from a collective of Oregon rural electric cooperatives.

6. Revealing The Reason Behind Jet Formation At The Tip Of Laser Optical Fiber 10/9/2020

   When an optical fiber is immersed in liquid, a high temperature, high speed jet is discharged. Researchers expect this to be applied to medical treatment in the future. Now, a research team from Russia and Japan has explored this phenomenon further and revealed the reasons behind the jet formation.

7. Ultra-Fast Magnetic Switching With Potential To Transform Fibre Optical Communications 9/15/2020

   Researchers at CRANN and Trinity’s School of Physics have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch.

8. Tiny Circuits, Long Distances: Smaller Light Processing Devices For Fiber-Optic Communication 8/28/2020

   Optical signals produced by laser sources are extensively used in fiber-optic communications, which work by pulsing information packaged as light through cables, even at great distances, from a transmitter to a receiver.

9. No Limit Yet For Carbon Nanotube Fibers 8/19/2020

   Carbon nanotube fibers made at Rice University are now stronger than Kevlar and are inching up on the conductivity of copper.

10. Using Air To Amplify Light 8/11/2020

    “The idea had been going around my head for about 15 years, but I never had the time or the resources to do anything about it.” But now Luc Thévenaz, the head of the Fiber Optics Group in EPFL’s School of Engineering, has finally made it happen: his lab has developed a technology to amplify light inside the latest hollow-core optical fibers.