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Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 6:40AM Gazettabyte completes its summary of optical announcements at ECOC, held in Amsterdam. In the third and final part, NeoPhotonics’ GPON multiport transceiver is detailed.
Part 3: NeoPhotonics
“Anything that can be done to get high utilisation of your equipment, which represents your up-front investment, helps the business case"
Chris Pfistner, NeoPhotonics
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 9:16AM Gazettabyte completes its summary of key optical announcements at the recent ECOC show held in Amsterdam. In Part 2, Finisar's announcements are detailed.
Part 2
"The general thought with system vendors is that the more they can shrink the in-line equipment into a fewer number of slots, the more slots they have open and available for revenue-generating transceiver and transponder cards"
Rafik Ward, Finisar
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 8:38AM Gazettabyte completes its summary of key optical announcements at the recent ECOC show held in Amsterdam. Oclaro's announcements detailed here are followed by those of Finisar and NeoPhotonics.
Part 1: Oclaro
"Networks are getting more complex and you need automation so that they are more foolproof and more efficient operationally"
Per Hansen, Oclaro
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
Monday, October 1, 2012 at 2:44PM JDSU's CTO for communications and commercial optical products, Brandon Collings, discusses reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), 100 Gigabit, silicon photonics, and the status of JDSU's tunable SFP+.
"We have been continually monitoring to find ways to use the technology [silicon photonics] for telecom but we are not really seeing that happen”
Brandon Collings, JDSU
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 8:05AM Teraxion has become a silicon photonics player with the launch of its compact 40 and 100 Gigabit coherent receivers.
The Canadian optical component company has long been known for its fibre Bragg gratings and tunable dispersion compensation products. But for the last three years it has been developing expertise in silicon photonics and at the recent European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) exhibition it announced its first products based on the technology.
"You don't have this [fabless] model for indium phosphide or silica, while an ecosystem is developing around silicon photonics"
Martin Guy, Teraxion
Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 6:44PM MultiPhy has given first details of its planned 100 Gigabit coherent chip for metro networks. The Israeli fabless start-up expects to have samples of the device in 2013.
"We can tolerate greater [signal] impairments which means the requirements on the components we can use are more relaxed"
Avi Shabtai, CEO of MultiPhy
