Keysight Technologies makes a $1.5 billion bid for Spirent Communications, challenging VIAVI’s earlier offer for the British-based test and measurement company. In other news, BT and Adtran conducted a 100ZR field trial, and Lightwave announced that nominations are now open for the 2024 FTTXcellence Award. Lightwave Editor-in-Chief Sean Buckley explains it in this week's Friday 5 video.
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Sean BuckleySean Buckley
Sean is the Editor-in-Chief of Lightwave. He establishes and executes Lightwave's editorial strategy across its website, email newsletters, events, and other information products. Before coming to Lightwave in July 2023, he served as editor of Broadband Communities. Earlier, he served as senior editor of FierceTelecom and the editor of the former Telecommunications Magazine. He got his start in the optical industry in 1998 when he became the editor of enterprise and optical networks at Information Gatekeepers. He has a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lives in Dracut, Mass, with his wife, two sons, and his cat, Dove.