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The front cover of the World Broadband Association’s 'Broadband and Cloud Development Index Report 2025.' The design features a dark blue background with a central graphic of a glowing microchip inside a digital circle, surrounded by the outline of a cloud and vertical circuit board lines

Italy and Switzerland surge in 2025 BCDI rankings as AI spend hits $1t

The World Broadband Association (WBBA) has released its 2025 Broadband and Cloud Development Index (BCDI)

A conceptual image showing three panels: a network router with fibre cables on the left, a central processing unit (CPU) surrounded by servers in the middle, and a microchip board on the right, all connected by glowing digital data streams in a dark server room

Fibre in the fast lane - the AI-driven convergence

Keely Portway reviews some of the latest and biggest news and finds out how AI is reshaping optical networking infrastructure - multi-terabit systems, OCS, and the power imperative

A black rack-mounted network device by Finchetto with rows of green optical fibre connectors

Finchetto gains funding for 20x more efficient optical switch

Guildford, UK-based Finchetto secured Innovate UK funding to pilot a fully optical passive network switch, claiming a 20x power reduction over electronic switches, positioning its Photonic Fabric as a solution for AI-driven data centre energy consumption.

Marvell breaks AI limits with Celestial AI Photonic Fabric technology deal

Marvell Technology has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Celestial AI for upfront consideration valued at approximately $3.25 billion, combining the companies' capabilities to drive next-generation optical interconnect solutions for AI scale-up data centre infrastructure.