11:53 Vodafone will soon start testing Effect Photonics’ optical transceiver technology in its mobile network. “The first results of the tests are positive,” says Boudewijn Docter, president at Effect Photonics. “A working link has been established in the lab with all filters and other components that are also present in a real connection. The next step is testing in the field.” Credit: Effect Photonics Eindhoven-based Effect Photonics develops and markets optical transceivers for 5G and data center applications. Its products are based on a single photonic integrated circuit (PIC), featuring dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) functionality, which increases capacity, and tunable lasers, which enable automatic channel tuning.