China’s hollow-core fiber trial pushes 51.3 Tb/s over 128 miles without signal regeneration — milestone targets AI-era networking bottlenecks

YOFC, China Telecom, and Dekoli claim a 51.3 Tb/s hollow-core fiber field-trial record over 206.5 km, using 1.2 Tb/s-per-wavelength WDM transmission without repeaters or remote-pumped amplifiers.

Undersea cable connecting Egypt and Syria has been cut, state-owned telecom operator says — Damascus blames ‘systematic sabotage campaign’ as cause of damage

The Syrian government blamed a third party for the damage on its undersea cable that connects it to Egypt. Damascus didn’t mention any specific state or non-state actor, but its location makes it a prime target for disrupt…

Finland charges Russian captain and crew member of ship suspected of damaging undersea cables — prosecutors claim ship had eight more targets before it was stopped by coast guard

Finnish prosecutors charged two crew members of a cargo ship suspected of deliberately damaging two undersea cables at the turn of the year, with two more remaining detained in Finland. This is the second investigation to …

Netgear countersues TP-Link, saying firm ‘remains, at its core, a Chinese company selling Chinese-made products’ — alleges its ‘American company’ rebrand is false advertising

Netgear filed counterclaims against TP-Link in federal court in Delaware on June 11, accusing its larger rival of false advertising under the Lanham Act.