A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduces a bill to bar the federal government from equipping sensitive government systems with Chinese optical transceivers
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Optical components are getting pulled into the same national-security bucket as chips and base stations — if you sell into federal or defense-adjacent workloads, your supply chain now has to be geopolitically clean down to the transceiver. Expect similar constraints to trickle into regulated industries and hyperscaler gov clouds, raising both costs and switching friction for anything with Chinese networking gear in the path.
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