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WAN AICHEF ULTRA Earns 2026 IDEA Recognition, Rethinking AI Cooking for Everyday Life

A Load and Go Cooking Experience Designed Around Real Household Use

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A weeknight dinner might begin with salmon, chicken or a ready-to-cook meal picked up from Costco. With many conventional cooking appliances, the cook still chooses the mode, temperature and time, then returns to check doneness and make adjustments.

WAN AICHEF ULTRA was designed around a different experience: load the food, choose what you want to make, confirm the program, and go. This is what WAN AICHEF calls the “Load and Go” experience.

WAN AICHEF announced that WAN AICHEF ULTRA, its flagship AI cooking system, has been selected as a Professional Category Finalist in the 2026 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). The product was developed for real households around a practical question: how much routine cooking judgment can the appliance take on while keeping the process visible and the user in control?

WAN AICHEF ULTRA shown in a home kitchen setting. Photo courtesy of WAN AICHEF.
WAN AICHEF ULTRA shown in a home kitchen setting. Photo courtesy of WAN AICHEF.

A Different Cooking Experience

A familiar cooking workflow asks the user to make a series of decisions and keep an eye on the food as it cooks. Ultra takes on more of that routine. For supported ingredients, AI vision can identify the food and recommend a program. Once the user confirms it, the system monitors conditions and adjusts power and timing as cooking progresses.

“We began by asking which decisions people repeat every night and which of those the appliance could responsibly take on,” said Stanley Huo, CEO of WAN AICHEF. “The change is not simply what the appliance can do, but what the user no longer has to do. Progress must remain clear, and control must remain with the cook.”

How Ultra Reads and Responds to Food

Ultra uses visual and thermal feedback instead of relying only on preset time and temperature. A 12-megapixel AI camera and Heimann infrared thermal imaging gather information, while NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano provides on-device computing. The system combines these inputs to guide heat adjustments toward the selected result.

In testing of supported cooking tasks, the system achieved temperature-control precision of approximately ±3.2°F under specified conditions; results varied by food, cookware and program. Dry-burn protection, cookware detection, door-open auto-stop and a child lock provide safeguards for everyday operation. The screen keeps settings and progress visible, so the system can handle routine monitoring while keeping the user informed and in control.

Designed Around Real Household Use

WAN AICHEF has trained Ultra’s AI to recognize and cook a growing range of foods and ready-to-cook products available from Costco, Whole Foods Market, Safeway and other U.S. retailers, as well as meal-kit services such as HelloFresh.

For supported items, users can place the food in compatible cookware inside Ultra and follow the on-screen cooking recommendations without having to translate package directions into appliance modes, temperatures and timing. The company continues to expand the range of supported foods and formats.

Personalization is tied to the cooking result. One person may prefer salmon softer and more tender, while another wants it more well done. Over time, feedback about texture and doneness can help future cooking recommendations better match each person or household’s preferences.

That difference is most noticeable in everyday use. A home user in Florida prepared salmon with asparagus and garlic butter shrimp and said she did not have to “constantly watch the food or worry about overcooking it.” In Atlanta, a mother used Ultra to cook a whole chicken and said she spent less time checking on the food and more time with her family. These experiences reflect what Ultra is designed to reduce: the attention and repeated monitoring that everyday cooking often requires.

Recognition for Experience Centered Design

Ultra’s design value does not rest on one camera, processor or temperature figure. It comes from how sensing, software, heat control and interface work together to replace repeated estimates and checks with a visible process that responds to feedback. This integrated experience formed the basis of WAN AICHEF’s IDEA submission.

Following earlier recognition from the Red Dot Award, the 2026 IDEA finalist selection provides further professional validation of this design direction. WAN AICHEF ULTRA was designed to make everyday cooking easier to start and manage, with built-in safeguards and less need for continuous attention.

https://www.idsa.org/awards-recognition/idea/idea-gallery/wan-aichef-ultra/

Learn more about WAN AICHEF ULTRA at global.wanaichef.com. ULTRA is also available to explore through Indiegogo.

About the International Design Excellence Awards

The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is an annual design competition presented by IDSA. For more than 45 years, the program has recognized significant achievements in industrial design and work intended to create meaningful benefit for users, organizations and society.

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Sylvia Liang
International Business Director
WAN AICHEF
732 S 6TH ST #7231
LAS VEGAS, NV 89101, United States
global@wanaichef.com
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A robust adjusted EBIT margin of 18.8%, driven by solid organic revenue growth of 7.4%

PARIS, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 

Virbac Headquarters, Carros, France
Virbac Headquarters, Carros, France

  • H1 2026 delivered a robust revenue growth of +7.4% and an adjusted EBIT margin of 18.8% at CERS:

○  Revenue growth is coming from both segments : companion animal +10.0% and farm animal +6.7% with a strong contribution from our Supercharge platforms (excl. Thyronorm) which increased by around +12% at CERS
○  Solid volume/mix effect of ~+5.4%, completed by price increase of ~+2%
○  Operating margin increased by 0.5ppt compared to H1 2025 driven by a favorable mix effect on the gross margin partially offset by higher operating expenses due to H1/H2 phasing effects.

  • Consolidated net income increased by +5.9% to €87.1 million
  • Net Debt as of June 2026 up to €196 million compared to €173m as of December 2025 mainly driven by usual working capital requirement seasonality

2026 guidance confirmed at the upper end of the range: the strong performance achieved in the first half of the year positions us to target the upper end of our initial revenue growth range (5.5% to 7.5% at CERS) and an adjusted recurring operating income margin of around 17% at CERS

Paul Martingell, Chief Executive Officer statement

“Virbac delivered a strong first half, marked by +7.4% organic growth and an 18.8% operating margin, demonstrating our teams’ ability to turn our commitment to animal health into tangible value. This performance reflects the scaling power of our ‘Supercharge’ platforms and the seamless integration of Thyronorm. Guided by our ‘Growing Together’ 2030 strategy, we are fully on track to achieve our full-year guidance.”

To be noted: EBIT Adjusted (before amortizations) corresponds to “recurring operating income before amortization of assets arising from acquisitions”.

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TDH Holdings Announces its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be Held on November 10, 2026

BEIJING, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TDH Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETZ) (“TDH” or the “Company”), announced today that its Annual General Meeting of shareholders (the “AGM”) will be held November 10, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Beijing time/Tuesday, November 9, 2026 at 8:30 p.m. EST at Room 1104, 9 East 3 Ring Middle Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. Stockholders of record as of the record date, close of business on September 30, 2026 will be entitled to vote at the AGM.

About TDH Holdings, Inc.

Founded in April 2002, TDH Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) is a PRC-based company that is an operator and manager of commercial real estate properties. More information about the Company can be found at www.tiandihui.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements that are other than statements of historical facts. When the Company uses words such as “may”, “will”, “intend”, “should”, “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “project”, “estimate” or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters, it is making forward-looking statements. Specifically, the Company’s statements regarding its annual meeting are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results to differ materially from the Company’s expectations discussed in the forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, the following: the Company’s goals and strategies; the Company’s future business development; general risks affecting the commercial real estate industry (including, without limitation, the inability to enter into or renew leases on favorable terms, changes in client preferences and space utilization, dependence on clients’ financial condition, and competition from other developers, owners and operators of real estate); changes in technology; economic conditions; reputation and brand; the impact of competition and pricing; government regulations; fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China and the United States and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing and other risks contained in reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For these reasons, among others, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements in this press release. Additional factors are discussed in the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof.

For more information, please contact:

Feng Zhang, CFO
Email: tdhpets@163.com
Phone: +86 183-1102-1983

ADVANCION RELEASES 2025 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT: “SAFE BY CHOICE. SUSTAINABLE BY DESIGN.”

Advancion’s fifth annual report highlights the Company’s progress in safety, sustainable innovation and responsible operations

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill., Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Advancion Corporation (“Advancion” or the “Company”), a global leader in life sciences buffers and proprietary specialty ingredients, today announced the release of its 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report, available at advancionsciences.com/sustainability.

Advancion’s fifth annual report was prepared using the latest Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and details the Company’s 2025 sustainability performance and progress toward its long-term goals. Guided by the theme “Safe by Choice. Sustainable by Design.”, the report highlights how safety and sustainability shape Advancion’s operations, innovation and strategic priorities.

Key highlights from Advancion’s 2025 report include:

  • Industry-leading safety performance – Advancion’s Sterlington, Louisiana, and Ibbenbüren, Germany, manufacturing facilities each surpassed three years without a recordable injury, reflecting the Company’s strong safety culture and commitment to zero incidents, ensuring every employee returns home safely.
  • Progress toward 2030 environmental goals – The Company reduced greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, water use and waste intensity across its major manufacturing operations compared with its 2020 baseline.
  • Sustainable portfolio impact – Advancion evaluated its entire product portfolio in 2025, with approximately 54% of revenue generated by products that promote health, reduce waste or provide environmental benefits.
  • Award-winning operational improvements – Advancion implemented projects that improve efficiency while reducing emissions, waste and operating costs, earning multiple American Chemistry Council Responsible Care® Awards.
  • Innovation designed for the future – The Company continued advancing its next-generation high-performance ingredients and biotechnology solutions that help customers improve product performance, respond to evolving regulatory requirements and achieve their own sustainability objectives.

“Our 2025 Sustainability Report demonstrates how safety and sustainability have become deeply embedded across Advancion,” said David Neuberger, President and Chief Executive Officer. “We are making meaningful progress—from strengthening our safety culture and expanding renewable energy to advancing sustainable innovation and improving the environmental efficiency of our operations. These efforts support our long-term strategy and reinforce our commitment to creating lasting value for our customers, employees, communities and other stakeholders.”

For more information about Advancion’s sustainability platform and to download the 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report, visit advancionsciences.com/sustainability.

ABOUT ADVANCION

Advancion is a leading global producer of specialty ingredients and consumables for biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, home and personal care, and other consumer-oriented and industrial markets. The Company is one of the world’s largest producers of life sciences buffers and other proprietary ingredients, providing high-performance products, best-in-class quality and guaranteed supply security for more than 80 years. Through Expression Systems, an Advancion company, the Company produces innovative cell culture media formulations, cell lines, molecular tools and reagents used in the development and commercial manufacturing of advanced therapies. Advancion operates three manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Germany and serves its global customers through six regional Customer Application Centers located in Chicago, Illinois; Paris, France; São Paulo, Brazil; Singapore; Shanghai, China; and Mumbai, India. The Company is privately owned by Ardian and Golden Gate Capital, and is headquartered in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. For more information, visit advancionsciences.com.

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AML RightSource Recognized with CobraSight Award for Digital Asset Compliance Expertise

Industry recognition highlights AML RightSource’s expertise in helping organizations navigate evolving crypto and digital asset regulations

HIGHLAND HILLS, Ohio, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AML RightSource, a global expert solutions provider of financial crime compliance managed services and advisory solutions, has been recognized by CobraSight with a 2026 Crypto & Digital Assets Growth Partner Award in the Licensing & Compliance category. The award recognizes firms that demonstrate deep expertise, specialization, and experience supporting organizations operating within the digital asset ecosystem.

As digital assets continue to move further into the financial mainstream, organizations face an increasingly complex regulatory environment. New and evolving requirements across jurisdictions are raising expectations around anti-money laundering, financial crime compliance, governance, licensing, and risk management.

AML RightSource helps digital asset businesses, financial institutions, fintechs, and other regulated organizations navigate these challenges through a combination of managed services, advisory support, investigations, transaction monitoring, sanctions compliance, and broader financial crime risk management expertise.

“Digital assets have rapidly evolved from a niche market to an increasingly important part of the global financial ecosystem,” said Steve Meirink, Chief Executive Officer of AML RightSource.

“As digital assets continue to gain broader adoption, organizations face increasing pressure to balance innovation with strong compliance and risk management practices. We’re proud to support our clients as they navigate that challenge, helping them build programs that meet evolving regulatory expectations while enabling sustainable growth.”

“This award reflects the expertise and commitment of our global team. Every day, our professionals work alongside clients to solve complex compliance challenges, strengthen trust, and create the foundation for long-term success.”

AML RightSource has more than 7,000 professionals globally, providing financial crime compliance expertise across North America, EMEA, and APAC. The firm’s capabilities span anti-money laundering, Know Your Customer (KYC), sanctions compliance, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, investigations, regulatory remediation, and advisory services for highly regulated industries.

According to CobraSight, more than 350 vendors were evaluated through an independent research process, with winners selected based on specialization, industry expertise, client experience, and support for organizations operating in regulated markets.

About AML RightSource
AML RightSource is a global leader in financial crime compliance and risk management. Delivering tailored solutions through expert professionals to support AML, KYC, EDD, and more. We help clients meet compliance demands, manage risk, and navigate regulatory change with confidence. www.amlrightsource.com. 

Huawei Pioneers a New Computing Architecture for the AI Era: Making One Million Processors Work as One Computer


SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 17 September 2026 – Huawei today announced the Peerium Computing Architecture, a new computing architecture for the AI era. The architecture enables processors at the million scale to work as one computer, meeting the ever-growing demand for AI compute.

Huawei Pioneers a New Computing Architecture for the AI Era: Making One Million Processors Work as One Computer

The Peerium Computing Architecture achieves strong scaling to the million-processor level through nested parallelism, unified memory addressing, and peer interconnect. It breaks through the Turing paradigm with the introduction of Nested BSP (Nested Bulk Synchronous Parallel), extends the von Neumann single-machine architecture, and overturns the master–slave architecture that has prevailed for decades, so that a million processors truly become one larger computer.

UnifiedBus (UB) is the key interconnect technology that makes the Peerium Computing Architecture possible. Built on a single open protocol, UB is a high-speed bus that scales without limit to connect CPUs, NPUs, memory, SSDs, network interface cards (NICs), and switches. With UB, peer interconnect is achieved across compute, storage, and networking.

The Atlas 950 SuperPoD and SuperPoD-based SuperClusters are the first-generation product built on the Peerium Computing Architecture. An Atlas 950 SuperCluster with 256,000 cards is already being deployed, and the Atlas 960 system based on near-packaged optics (NPO) is currently under testing.

Eric Xu, Huawei’s Rotating Chairman, said, “In the AI era, Huawei is drawing on the Peerium Computing Architecture we pioneered to continuously build the SuperPoDs and SuperPod-based SuperClusters that meet customer needs for training and inference, making computing power available everywhere and intelligence accessible to all.”

Hashtag: #Huawei

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Optics Valley Launches Corporate International Communication Alliance to Empower Tech Companies’ High-Quality Global Expansion


WUHAN, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 17 September 2026 – On September 13, the inauguration ceremony of the Optics Valley International Communication Alliance was held. Representatives of 13 founding member companies — including FiberHome, China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, HGTECH, YHKT Entertainment, Huakang Clean and Shenglong Electric — and of more than 100 other Optics Valley enterprises attended the event.

On September 13th, the inauguration ceremony of the Optics Valley International Communication Alliance was held.
On September 13th, the inauguration ceremony of the Optics Valley International Communication Alliance was held.

The ceremony was held under the theme “Chasing the Light, Connecting the World.” In recent years, Optics Valley’s innovations have been reaching the world at an accelerating pace. The overseas social media matrix of “Optics Valley of China” has continued to attract attention, and “made in Optics Valley” products such as the Optics Valley Photon sky rail and driverless minibuses have been repeatedly applauded by spokespersons of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, becoming a “calling card for China” in the eyes of overseas netizens. To help companies move from “product export” to “brand export,” Optics Valley has worked with the News & Information Service Center of Xinhua News Agency and other partners to establish the Optics Valley International Communication Alliance, opening international communication resources to Optics Valley companies and providing them with one-stop services such as overseas public opinion response and multilingual content production, so as to serve as a “navigator” for companies going global. As the national news agency of China, Xinhua News Agency has 184 overseas branches and has established cooperative links with more than 2,000 media outlets around the world.

Speaking as a representative of the founding members, Li Lei, vice president of FiberHome, said that FiberHome’s business now covers more than 100 countries and regions, with wholly owned subsidiaries in 36 countries and three overseas optical cable plants in Ecuador, Thailand and Hungary; at its Philippine subsidiary, locally hired employees account for more than 95 percent of the workforce. “We will stay committed to high-quality global expansion and to deepening localized operations, and, with the platform of the Optics Valley International Communication Alliance, we will not only export China’s advanced communication technologies and solutions, but also serve as a bridge for industrial cooperation and people-to-people connectivity between China and the rest of the world,” he said.

Huakang Clean, also a founding member, is a leading enterprise in China’s cleanroom industry. It has made going global a core strategy for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, completed its market layout in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa, and exported mature cleanroom technology solutions. It looks forward to deepening cross-border collaboration and strengthening brand building through the alliance platform.

At the ceremony, a think tank report was released — “Going Global, Competing Worldwide: How ‘Optics Valley of China’ Polishes Its International Calling Card in Service of Building a Strong Nation in Science and Technology — Practices and Insights,” written by Reference News Press · Reference Think Tank. According to the report, leading enterprises represented by the “Seven Stars of Optics Valley” have seen average annual growth in overseas revenue of more than 30 percent. The report sums up Optics Valley’s global communication path as “one strategic direction and ten keywords”: Optics Valley takes serving the building of a strong nation in science and technology as its strategic direction, and adheres to central-local coordination, AI empowerment, going global as a team, and tailored measures for different markets.

The report states that Optics Valley has witnessed and written the confidence and determination of a brand of a strong nation in science and technology going global, and that when the light of “Optics Valley of China” illuminates the global industrial landscape, it conveys the narrative of the times in which China takes part in global competition through technological self-reliance and self-strengthening and shares its opportunities with the world. The report suggests that, for Optics Valley to keep polishing its international calling card in service of building a strong nation in science and technology, three things need to be fully considered: first, elevating the Optics Valley story from “corporate behavior” to a “national narrative”; second, making full use of AI, a global knowledge-service infrastructure, to carry out global communication; and third, moving from “communication empowering industry” to “communication as an industrial capability.”

A training session on overseas communication capacity building was held alongside the inauguration ceremony, with David Wei, founder of Vision Knight Capital, and Cao Yang, deputy director of the International Communication Department of the News & Information Service Center of Xinhua News Agency, invited to give lectures.

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Huawei Unveils the Industry’s First NPO Optical Engine with Built-in Light Source, Hi-ONE, Leading the Way in High-Speed Optical Interconnect Technology Innovation


Summary:

  • At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei unveiled the industry’s first NPO optical engine with Built-in Light Source, Hi-ONE, offering a total capacity of 7.2 TB/s and enabling Huawei to be the first to mass produce such an optical engine.
  • Hi-ONE has been applied to the Ascend 960 SuperPoD, built on the “UnifiedBus plus Hi-ONE” architecture. This has reduced the number of 800G optical modules within the SuperPoD by 48,000, significantly lowered system power consumption, and enhanced reliability.
  • In May 2026, the standard proposal for “12.8 TB/s NPO Module”, jointly submitted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), Huawei, and other companies, was officially initiated by the OIF, receiving support from more than 40 global industry chain vendors.

SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 17 September 2026 – At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei unveiled the industry’s first NPO optical engine with Built-in Light Source, Hi-ONE, offering a total capacity of 7.2 TB/s and enabling Huawei to be the first to mass produce such an optical engine. The Ascend 960 SuperPoD, built on the “UnifiedBus plus Hi-ONE” architecture, has already adopted the Hi-ONE optical engine powered by NPO. Hi-ONE is the industry’s first-ever optical engine to adopt a built-in light source architecture, achieving high-density, high-speed optical interconnect while significantly reducing power consumption and latency for signal transmission. The launch of Hi-ONE marks the beginning of NPO technology’s transition from industry consensus to large-scale commercial use, injecting new momentum into the AI computing industry.

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NPO technology path: Balancing innovation and ecosystem continuity

NPO technology realizes close interaction between optical and electrical signals but maintains the independence of the optical engine, thus maximizing the continuity of customer usage habits and industry ecosystems. By following this technology path, Huawei has developed the innovative Hi-ONE optical engine, which currently stands as the NPO product with the highest transmission capacity in the industry and the first NPO product to adopt a built-in light source architecture. Rooted in self-developed technologies, Huawei has achieved breakthroughs in key areas such as bandwidth, reliability, power consumption, and latency.

High bandwidth and high reliability: Hi-ONE is the first optical engine to integrate 36 channels of optical transceivers, significantly reducing the number of discrete components and lowering failure rates at the very source. Hi-ONE integrates key technologies, including compound optical chips, silicon photonic chips, and optoelectronic RF chips. Through a balanced design of optical, mechanical, electrical, magnetic, and thermal elements, Hi-ONE supports a transmission capacity of 7.2 TB/s on a single optical engine, and makes built-in light sources a reality in the NPO engine. As a result, overall reliability is improved by 10 times, ensuring the stable operation of long-duration training tasks.

Low power consumption and low latency: With the adoption of a linear direct-drive architecture, Hi-ONE eliminates the need for high-power oDSP chips, cutting power consumption by approximately 66% and latency by about 90%. This both lowers energy costs and boosts communications efficiency.

Standards and ecosystems drive industry consensus

Alongside product innovation, Huawei has also made progress in NPO standards and industry ecosystem development. In May 2026, the standard proposal for “12.8 TB/s NPO Module”, jointly submitted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), Huawei, and other companies, was officially initiated by the OIF, with support from more than 40 industry chain vendors worldwide.

From technological breakthroughs to product application, and from international standards to industry ecosystem development, Huawei is driving NPO from industry consensus to large-scale commercial use. It is achieving this through a combination of strong technological innovation and open collaboration with global industry partners, with the ultimate goal of shaping a new AI computing industry landscape.

FAQs:

Q1: What is NPO?

A: NPO, short for Near-Packaged Optics, is an optical interconnect technology that keeps optical engines close to switching chips, shortening the transmission distance between optical and electrical signals while maintaining the independence of optical engines.

Q2: What is the OIF?

A: The OIF, or Optical Internetworking Forum, plays a key role as a core standards developer and interoperability promoter in the optical communications industry. It has huge influence, particularly in the fields of high-speed optical modules and data center interconnect.

Hashtag: #Huawei

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