Corning: Optical Fiber Demand Continues to Ramp

In its annual investor meeting last Friday, Corning outlined growth opportunities with its Gorilla Glass business, in fiber for telecommunications and in environmental and life sciences.  Some highlights: Gorilla Glass sales surpassed the $1 billion mark last year. Since launching Gorilla Glass in 2007, over 1 billion devices have implemented the technology. Corning is working to bring new glass innovations to the consumer electronics market,...

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Big Switch Attracts Strategic Investment from Intel

Intel Capital has made a strategic investment in Big Switch Networks.  The investment in Big Switch's Series B funding brings the total amount raised to date to over $45 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and others. "Data center operators need programmable and cost effective merchant silicon-based networking architectures to meet their data center economic and operational objectives,”...

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Eutelsat Awards 4-Launch Contract to Arianespace

Eutelsat Communications awarded a contract to Arianespace covering up to four satellite launches in 2016 and 2017.  The new contract is in addition to the contract signed in July 2012 between Eutelsat and Arianespace for the 2014 and 2015 timeframe, covering one launch and an option for a further launch. "This latest contract seals a 30-year relationship between Eutelsat and Arianespace during which over 60% of our satellites have been...

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