Japan-based Furukawa Electric has developed a new Pump Source FRSi4XX Series for Forward Raman Amplifiers. The Pump Source, as the company reveals in a press release, achieves Higher Speeds and Long-Distance Transmission.

BT and Computacenter today announce that they have entered exclusive negotiations on the acquisition of BT’s domestic operations in France by Computacenter. The transaction is subject to consultations with works councils over a minimum period of two months. This process will adhere to any additional French Government guidance issued as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. It will then be subject to regulatory approval, with completion expected to take place by the end of 2020.

Orange has proceeded to land Google’s transatlantic Dunant cable in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, in the Vendée region of France, first and terrestrial stage of the laying of this cable on 13th March 2020.

An interoperability test of the telecom industry’s most dense and spectrally-efficient 400GbE transport solution with the high-density native 400GbE router has been accomplished by the equipment solutions provider Ciena and the software solution provider Arista. The test lays the groundwork for ubiquitous high-bandwidth connectivity in global networks.