Optoscribe and Sumitomo Electric Deliver Field Testbed for MCF Communications
LIVINGSTON, Scotland and OSAKA, Japan, June 11, 2019 — Optoscribe, a supplier of 3D glass-based integrated photonics components, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, an optical fiber cable manufacturing technology supplier, have teamed with the University of L’Aquila (UnivAQ) in Italy on a research project to help strengthen the telecommunications infrastructure of the city of L'Aquila. The companies are working to deploy a multicore fiber (MCF) testbed for space-division multiplexed (SDM) communications in a real-field environment.