Nokia on Wednesday announced plans to acquire Elenion Technologies, a U.S.-based company focusing on silicon photonics technology.
Elenion’s technology expertise and unique design platform and services enable Nokia to expand its market footprint by addressing the critical and rapidly evolving optical connectivity requirements of 5G, cloud and enterprise networking. Ownership of these key assets brings time-to-market and cost advantages to Nokia’s broad portfolio of networking solutions by applying the massive scale and economies of silicon design and manufacturing to the optical supply chain.
Elenion develops highly integrated, low-cost silicon photonics technologies for short-reach and high-performance optical interfaces and has pioneered a design toolset which enables a greatly simplified, low cost, scalable manufacturing process. The Elenion platform simplifies integration with optical chipsets, lowers power consumption, improves port density and helps to lower the overall cost per bit for network operators.
Sam Bucci, Head of Optical Networking, Nokia
Elenion's solutions can be readily integrated into Nokia’s product offerings and address multiple high growth segments including 5G, cloud and data center networking.
Larry Schwerin, CEO, Elenion Technologies
Elenion benefits by having its technology incorporated into an industry-leading portfolio and with a company offering solutions across a wide array of networking applications.
