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Lightwave+BTR Webinar: The Pluggable Transceiver Revolution

📅 May 21, 2025 | 🕒 1:00 PM ET

The optical networking landscape is transforming rapidly, with coherent pluggable optics taking on new roles in router-to-router links for data center interconnect and service provider IP over DWDM.

In this webinar, Fady Masoud, Nokia Senior Director of Solutions Marketing, will join us to explore:

🔹The rising importance of ZR Optics
🔹Why hyperscalers were early adopters of pluggable coherent modules
🔹800GbE module demand
🔹Best practices for implementation
🔹And more

👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/3GhCD2T

Lightwave+BTR Webinar: Simplifying and Accelerating Rural Broadband Deployments

📅 April 30, 2025 | 🕒 1:00 PM ET

A recent Center on Rural Innovation (CORI) study found that rural counties with broadband adoption rates of over 80% have significant advantages over those with low usage. The U.S. government hopes programs like ReConnect and BEAD will help overcome the cost challenges of serving rural markets. Still, even before BEAD gets implemented next year, rural broadband operators are aggressively deploying fiber-based broadband networks.

To overcome the challenges of deploying fiber, some vendors are developing programs to help rural broadband players accelerate rural broadband deployments.

In this webinar, Luis Couto, VIAVI Solutions Fiber Optics Regional Product Line Manager, will join us to discuss the challenges and opportunities to simplify rural broadband deployments.

👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/3FScOWG

Do you know a Community Champion in fiber broadband? Nominate them now for the 2025 Connect the Unconnected Award.

Presented by Corning and Lightwave+BTR, this award honors visionary telecommunications leaders who are bridging the digital divide through strategic fiber broadband expansion.

These are innovators who:

🔹Identify underserved regions

🔹Break through deployment barriers

🔹Align broadband strategy with community needs

The winner will be revealed at the 2025 Fiber Connect Conference and Expo, June 1-4 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nominations close April 23.

Start your entry now to shine a spotlight on someone making a transformative impact:

https://bit.ly/3GaiFag

Sean Buckley covers CBTS' new AI solutions, Leviton's fiber factory expansion, FiberLight, LLC's Metro Fiber Networks acquisition, and more in this week's Friday 5.

Check it out on Lightwave+BTR:

Connecting the unconnected With the Fiber Connect show upon us, there’s still time to enter the Connect the Unconnected award. Other developments include FiberLight buying MFN and Astound connecting...