Vodafone and partners explore new silicon photonic chips

Network operator Vodafone together with partners, including Salience Labs and iPronics, are exploring new silicon photonic chips as hardware for ‘higher capacity’ open RAN in a Malaga R&D centre.
UK-based Salience Labs and Valencia-based iPronics startups joined Vodafone, and other participating vendors, to advance the chip architecture with the goal to enhance new open radio access networks (open RAN). The two startups are assisting with testing the latest silicon photonics.
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