Today’s global telecom systems are powered by technology developed at the University of Glasgow. This technology has been utilised, endorsed and developed by a series of internationally successful companies, facilitating multimillion pound investment from across Europe and the USA for the companies.

Gemfire Europe acquired the University of Glasgow IP and technology and between 2008 and 2012 launched a range of ‘green’ products with reduced power consumption. The company’s revenues reached $12m annually and in 2013, Gemfire was one of the world’s top five planar lightwave circuit companies.

Gemfire was bought by Kaiam, one of the world’s market-leading optical networking companies in April 2013, stimulating further innovation and investment in the production of high-speed components for the global data networking market.

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First published: 3 December 2013

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