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Facebook is to launch its first subsea cable connecting Europe to the U.S.

Industry research firm LightCounting has released its Mega Datacenter Optics Report for 2021.

Liquid Technologies has partnered with Facebook to build a long-haul and metro fibre network in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Researchers from Duke University and Facebook’s Connectivity Lab have created a new plasmonic metasurface that achieves record high light efficiency over the entire centimetre-scale metasurface.

Eight companies have come together to build 2Africa, a subsea cable designed to serve the African continent and Middle East region.

Microsoft and Facebook have partnered to form the Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) Collaboration.

Vodafone has successfully completed a live network trial in Spain as part of its work with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), using the Voyager optical ‘white box.’

The goal of the live trial was to showcase the future of applying a disaggregated model to optical networks and to provide more flexibility to handle the real time dynamics using Voyager, combined with a software-defined network (SDN) controller.

Google has announced that it plans to build three new subsea cables as part of an investment drive for its cloud infrastructure.

With the additional news that the it will be adding a further five regions to its network – which, according to the company, already delivers 25 per cent of worldwide internet traffic – the additional cable investment will be essential in continuing to maintain and improve performance.