Regulatory News

  1. Fiber-Sensing Technology Can Provide Early Warning For Volcanic Eruptions 4/24/2025

    The Reykjanes Peninsula at Iceland's southwestern edge is one of the country's most populated regions, and it is also one of the most volcanically active. In 2024, sensing technology developed at Caltech was deployed in the region to study the motion of subsurface magma and its eruption into lava on the surface.

  2. Sparkle Joins The European ECSTATIC Project To Transform Submarine Fiber-Optic Cables Into Global Sensing Systems 4/17/2025

    Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, has joined the European research project ECSTATIC to develop innovative solutions aimed at enhancing the detection capabilities of submarine cable systems for identifying seismic phenomena.

  3. FiberLight Agrees To Acquire Metro Fiber Networks 4/16/2025

    FiberLight, LLC, a leading provider of high-capacity fiber optic networks and connectivity services, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Metro Fiber Networks (MFN), a dedicated fiber provider serving carriers and public institutions in Richmond and Virginia Beach.

  4. Fiber Optics: ZF Brings The Speed Of Light To The Electrical Systems Of Software-Defined Vehicles 4/3/2025

    Friedrichshafen (Germany). At home or in the office, data networks with fiber optic connectivity are already widely used when high data transfer speeds are required.

  5. Broadcom Advances Optical Connectivity For AI Infrastructure With Industry-Leading Solutions At OFC 2025 3/31/2025

    Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced the expansion of its portfolio of optical interconnect solutions to enable AI infrastructure.

  6. Lightwave Logic Announces Controlled Availability Of Silicon Photonics Process Design Kit For Advanced Electro-Optic Polymer Integration 3/28/2025

    Lightwave Logic, Inc. (the "Company"), a technology platform company leveraging its proprietary electro-optic (EO) polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power, today announced the controlled availability of its cutting-edge Process Design Kit (PDK).

  7. POST Luxembourg Becomes First European Operator To Migrate To An Autonomous, AI-Ready Fiber Network 3/25/2025

    Nokia today announced that POST aims to be Europe’s first operator to migrate its entire broadband infrastructure to a software-defined access network by the end of 2025.

  8. IQ Fiber Announces Network Deployment In St. Petersburg, Florida 3/4/2025

    IQ Fiber, a Jacksonville, Florida based provider of 100% fiber-optic internet service, announces it is expanding its modern 10-gig capable network to the city of St. Petersburg and Pinellas County. This expansion continues the company’s growth across the Eastern United States.

  9. Global Internet Grid Could Better Detect Earthquakes With New Algorithm 2/3/2025

    Early detection of earthquakes could be vastly improved by tapping into the world's internet network with a groundbreaking new algorithm, researchers say.

  10. NextLight Simplifies Management Of High-Speed Network With Smartoptics 1/30/2025

    Smartoptics, a leading provider of optical networking solutions, today announced that NextLight, the award-winning municipal fiber provider of Longmont, Colorado, USA, has upgraded its high-capacity fiber network with a Smartoptics solution.