This was the first 50G-PON Plugfest and the second 25 GS-PON Plugfest. About a dozen companies participated.

Conterra Networks will use equipment from Ciena to support the 400 Gbps wavelength services, which will also be available to enterprises.

Fiber manufactured in an OFS Georgia facility will meet Buy America requirements critical for material and equipment used in BEAD projects.

The Nokia Buy America-compliant equipment includes cards for optical line terminal (OLTs) manufactured by Sanmina.

AFL announced an investment of over $50M to expand its fiber optic cable manufacturing operations in South Carolina.

Toshiba and Ciena demonstrated a quantum key management system to work over an 800 Gbps metropolitan network.
