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Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 9:19AM Gazettabyte surveys some of the notable product announcements made at the recent European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) held in London.
Part 1: Highlights
Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 4:07PM
"The performance [of gallium arsenide] is very similar to the lithium niobate modulator"
Jens Fiedler, u2t Photonics
Monday, May 13, 2013 at 8:03AM Kaiam Corp. has secured US $16M in C-round funding and completed the acquisition of Gemfire.
"We have a micro-machine technology that allows us to use standard pick-and-place electronic assembly tools, and with our micro-machine, we achieve sub-micron alignment tolerances suitable for single-mode applications"
Byron Trop, Kaiam
Friday, April 12, 2013 at 9:13AM Gazettabyte asked industry figures for their views after attending the recent OFC/NFOEC show.
"Spatial domain multiplexing has been a hot topic in R&D labs. However, at this year's OFC we found that incumbent and emerging carriers do not have a near-term need for this technology. Those working on spatial domain multiplexing development should adjust their efforts to align with end-users' needs"
T.J. Xia, Verizon
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 9:27AM Gazettabyte asked industry figures for their views after attending the recent OFC/NFOEC show held in Anaheim. Part 2
Bill Gartner, vice president and general manager of high-end routing and optical business unit at Cisco Systems.
There were several key themes during this year’s OFC conference, but what I found most compelling were the disruptive trends and technologies that stand to significantly impact the optical communications market in the coming years.
"SDN could be the single biggest disruptor in the transport industry and has the potential to transform network programmability and orchestration"
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 5:45PM Cisco Systems has been detailing over recent months its upcoming proprietary optical module dubbed CPAK. The development promises to reduce the market opportunity for the CFP2 multi-source agreement (MSA) and has caused some disquiet in the industry.
Source: Cisco Systems, Gazettabyte, see comments
CFP2, CFP4, CPAK, Cisco Systems, JDSU, LightCounting, MSA, Ovum, QSFP2+, optical transceivers in gazettabits Print Article Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 1:58PM Finisar and Oclaro unveiled their first CFP2 optical transceiver products at the recent ECOC exhibition in Amsterdam. JDSU also announced that its ONT-100G test equipment now supports the latest 100Gbps module form factor.
Source: Oclaro
