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Smartoptics is a small but rapidly growing company riding the wave of open networking, disaggregation, and IP-over-DWDM.

Ciena’s revenue declines again, but growth is on the horizon as its supply chain problems improve.

Fresh insights on Marvell’s current and future plans for optical networking.

Product revenue jumps 20%, while ICE6 shipments accelerate.

Coherent’s Datacom sales grew more than 10% this quarter and in contrast to Lumentum’s more pessimistic outlook. the company was optimistic about future datacom sales.

Lumentum’s Telecom revenue grew dramatically thanks to recent acquisitions, while Datacom is entering a difficult couple of quarters.

Nokia’s routing and optical businesses are weathering a downturn in EMEA with increasing success in North America and RoAPAC.

Introduces a new, high capacity aggregation router to address emerging metro requirements.

Understanding the next wave of 100Gbps and 200Gbps PAM4-based modules

Optical revenue declined -21% due to unexpected supply chain problems.

Big news coming next year on 1.6T client optics, 200GBaud technology, and a bevy of new coherent DSPs

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II-VI acquires Coherent and releases a new coherent DSP during a quarter of growth.

Product revenue jumps 13%, while ICE6 shipments are flat.

Lumentum completed its acquisition of Neophotonics and acquired IPG’s module business, moves signaling increased focus on the telecom module market.

Battling supply chain constraints and currency fluctuations, Nokia’s optical and packet businesses maintain flat YoY growth.

Cisco Packet Optical Networking Conference advanced the RON strategy.

Ciena grows packet revenue 72% and WaveLogic port shipments recover. But annual guidance is lowered due to persistent supply chain concerns.

These companies announced a collaboration on QSFP28 100ZR modules. This report is Cignal AI’s analysis of that announcement and its implications.

Cignal AI revisits our Coherent Pricing Trends report from 2019 and provides an update based on recent technology advances.