Broadband network

Minneapolis-based ADC Telecommunications Inc. will acquire AOFR Pty. Ltd. and its associated business units as a strategic move to expand into Southeast Asia. Located near Canberra, Australia, AOFR manufactures fiber-optic couplers and components and is a subsidiary of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. ADC Telecommunications will produce its own line of fiber frames, panels, and outside plant enclosures at the AOFR facility.

Broadband network

MACOM restructuring plans include layoffs, exit from datacom module sales

Broadcom knocks $2 billion off semiconductor revenue estimates due to Huawei, China tensions

Intel to buy Ethernet switch chipmaker Barefoot Networks

China Mobile leverages Microsemi DIGI OTN chip to enable Hitless Adjustment of ODUflex

META-DX1 Ethernet PHYs enable 4X card capacity increase

Open Eye MSA targets DSP-free PAM4 optical transceiver designs

Marvell agrees to buy Aquantia

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MACOM adds MATA-03820, MATA-03819 PAM4 linear TIAs for 400G optical module designs

Semtech adds combo chip, TIA to FiberEdge line for 10G-EPON OLTs

Broadcom unveils BCM87106 7-nm PAM4 PHY for single-lambda 100G

Microsoft, Facebook form Co-Packaged Optics Collaboration

Molex, Elenion Technologies extend silicon photonics collaboration

It’s a good time to be making optical transceiver semiconductors: LightCounting

HiLight Semiconductor lands $20 million in Series C funding

25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium releases low-latency FEC specification for 50GbE, 100GbE, and 200GbE applications