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Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 2:03PM Briefing: Silicon Photonics
Part 3: Merits, challenges and applications
Shown in blue are the optical waveguides with their tight bend radius while the copper wires carrying high-speed electrical signals is shown in orange. Source: IBM
Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 7:01PM Briefing: Silicon Photonics
Part 2: A system vendor's perspective
An interview with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs' Martin Zirngibl, domain leader for enabling physical technologies, on the merits and potential impact of silicon photonics
Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 9:20AM Briefing: Silicon photonics
Part 1: Optical interconnect
Luxtera demonstrated a 100 Gigabit QSFP optical module at the OFC/NFOEC 2013 exhibition.
"We're in discussions with a lot of memory vendors, switch vendors and different ASIC providers"
Chris Bergey, Luxtera
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 3:24PM Part 2: Hardware for SDN
Netronome has demonstrated its flow processor chip implementing the OpenFlow protocol, an open standard implementation of software-defined networking (SDN).
"What OpenFlow does is let you control the hardware that is handling the traffic in the network. The value to the end customer is what they can do with that"
David Wells, Netronome
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 10:43AM The OIF's Carrier Working Group is assessing how software-defined networking (SDN) will impact transport. Hans-Martin Foisel, chair of the OIF working group, explains SDN's importance for operators.
Briefing: Software-defined networking
Part 1: Operator interest in SDN
"Using SDN use cases, we are trying to derive whether the transport network is ready or if there is some missing functionality"
Hans-Martin Foisel, OIF
Monday, July 30, 2012 at 5:31PM The Full Service Access Network (FSAN) group has chosen wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to complement PON's traditional time-sharing scheme for the NG-PON2 next-generation standard.
"The technology choice allows us to have a single platform supporting both business and residential services"
Vincent O'Byrne, Verizon
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 4:18PM Briefing: Next-gen PON
Part 1: NG-PON2
The next-generation passive optical network (PON) will mark a departure from existing PON technologies. Some operators want systems based on the emerging standard for deployment by 2015.
“One of the goals in FSAN is to converge on one solution that can serve all the markets"
Derek Nesset, co-chair of FSAN's NGPON task group
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