{"id":26577,"date":"2025-07-21T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26577\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:16:08","slug":"eu-canada-security-and-defence-partnership-supports-smiths-interconnects-supply-of-fibre-optic-transceivers-for-space-and-defence-applications-to-eu-member-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26577\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-Canada security and defence partnership supports Smiths Interconnect\u2019s supply of fibre optic transceivers for space and defence applications to EU member states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Press Release<\/p>\n<p class=\"published-date text-muted\">\n                July 21, 2025\n            <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753114557.jpg\" class=\"primary-image\" width=\"320\" alt=\"EU-Canada security and defence partnership supports Smiths Interconnect\u2019s supply of fibre optic transceivers for space and defence applications to EU member states\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Smiths Interconnect, a leading provider of technically differentiated electronic components, subsystems, microwave, optical and radio frequency products, and a business of Smiths Group plc, welcomes the new EU-Canada security and defence partnership signed at the 20th EU-Canada summit on June 23, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership aims to deepen cooperation and launches talks on a new bilaterial agreement for Canada to access the Security Action for Europe (SAFE), part of Europe&#8217;s broader ReArm Europe initiative establishing joint arms procurement programmes.<\/p>\n<p>As a premier global supplier of fibre optic transceivers for the Space and Defence markets, Smiths Interconnect\u2019s 10G and 25G LightABLE\u2122 transceivers (for defence applications) and SpaceABLE\u00ae transceivers (for multi-orbit space applications) are developed and manufactured in Canada at the company\u2019s Montreal, Quebec facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These products are used to enable and enhance essential communications in a wide variety of settings around the world including geo stationary (GEO) and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, military vessels and ground vehicles, defence and commercial aircrafts.<\/p>\n<p>Tullio Panarello, General Manager\/VP, said: \u201cSmiths Interconnect is at the vanguard of cutting-edge connectivity solutions for critical industries, and our products have a long track record of excellence and high-performance. We are well-positioned to support future EU procurement programmes and look forward to expanding our collaboration with EU partners to build on the deep foundations of the long-standing Canada-European Space Agency Cooperation Agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smiths Interconnect has secured Technology Readiness Level 9 (TRL 9) for this product range. TRL is a global scale developed by NASA that denotes the level of space readiness of a component \u2013 with 1 lowest and 9 highest. Smiths Interconnect\u2019s TRL 9 approval means its technology is already proven and trusted to work during a flight mission in space\u00a0 SpaceABLE\u00ae products are flight proven, having been deployed in successful mission operations since 2022 (10G) and 2024 (28G).<\/p>\n<p>\n        Featured Companies\n        <\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryembedded.com\/company\/smithsinterconnect\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1578672690.png\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press Release July 21, 2025 Smiths Interconnect, a leading provider of technically differentiated electronic components, subsystems, microwave, optical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-26577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}