Corning opens Montreal telecom R&D hub

MONTREAL – Optical tech manufacturer Corning Incorporated today formally opened a research and development center in Montreal on Monday, one focused on discovering and developing software solutions for the telecommunications industry.The Corning Technology Center Montreal will serve as the company's global center of software innovation to support emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, cloud computing, and data analytics, as well as software solutions for optical-wireless networks, reads the press release.Software engineers from Corning's research, development and engineering organization will collaborate with developers from iBwave Solutions, the Montreal-based provider of networking software solutions that Corning acquired in 2015.The Montreal...