Fiber & Optical Backbones

9+ hour, 51+ min ago   (94+ words) Business Oregon’s Oregon Broadband Office is pleased to announce a major milestone for grantees of the Digital Connectivity Technology Program: Project Implementation Completion. Through DCTP, organizations across Oregon have expanded access to internet-enabled technology and Wi-Fi at no cost to…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (135+ words) Looking for more news? Visit our sister site, OK Politics Today, and subscribe here today! The Oklahoma Broadband Office (OBO) says it has completed eight broadband infrastructure projects by Indian Electric Cooperative (IEC) that will expand fiber-optic connectivity across several…...

13+ hour, 22+ min ago   (350+ words) On October 8, 2026, Lithuanian optical technology firm Astrolight, alongside the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), announced the successful commissioning of an end-to-end space-to-ground laser communication link. The optical link connected Astrolight’s ATLAS-1 laser…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (209+ words) Teradyne, Inc. announced Iris 100, a production-ready optical test platform for microLED devices. Teradyne Iris 100 brings semiconductor-grade optical test to microLED manufacturing, measuring every... announced Iris 100, a production-ready optical test platform for microLED devices Teradyne Iris 100 brings semiconductor-grade optical test to…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (320+ words) An optical sensing system developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory will help improve space domain awareness for the United States and Japan. The system launched in February and recently achieved first light. It will join Japan's orbiting QZSS satellite constellation to…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (353+ words) Stealth aircraft are designed primarily to make radar detection more difficult, creating an ongoing challenge for the sensors responsible for finding and tracking them. Researchers are now exploring whether another technology, normally associated with mapping, autonomous vehicles and surveying, could…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (103+ words) OpenCape, the operator of the region's 100% fiber optic network connecting Cape Cod to Boston and Providence, welcomed Gateway Fiber to Cape Cod as it begins its expansion in the region. Gateway Fiber, which announced last month that it is bringing…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (580+ words) The growing number of small satellites and large communication constellations, such as Starlink and OneWeb, makes it harder to distinguish This phenomenon, known as “CubeSat confusion,” can hinder tracking and collision avoidance. Additionally, the increasing density of orbital objects raises…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (364+ words) Celestia has published one of the more eye-catching blockchain throughput numbers of the year: 3.07 terabits per second. The number comes from an end-to-end benchmark of Fibre, Celestia’s high-throughput data-availability system, run across 120 validators. The team says the pipeline sustained the…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (279+ words) The headline number is 3.07 Tb/s, sustained across a 143-second load window with 120 validators each running on its own AWS machine. Celestia says that translates to enough data flow for nearly 2 billion transactions per second — a scale the company compares…...