Telecom Egypt and Huawei have launched a new Fiber-to-the-Room (FTTR) service aimed at strengthening Egypt’s fixed broadband infrastructure as competition intensifies across the Middle East and Africa over fiber networks, cloud ecosystems and AI-ready digital infrastructure. The rollout reflects a broader strategic shift within Egypt’s telecommunications sector, where operators are increasingly…

Quantum dot–based time-bin QKD achieves stable, long-distance secure communication with practical performance. Quantum key distribution is the most advanced area of quantum cryptography and offers fundamentally secure communication for the future quantum internet. Solid-state light sources such as semiconductor quantum dots (SQDs) have drawn significant attention because they can generate…

By harnessing two natural timescales in resonator arrays, researchers created photonic chips that reliably produce multiple harmonics without active compensation. For decades, scientists and engineers have steadily advanced technologies that control and manipulate light. These tools now underpin everything from ultra-precise atomic clocks to the massive data flows moving through modern data…