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Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 1:10PM 
Three planes of the network that host Nuage's .Virtualised Services Platform (VSP). Source: Nuage Networks
Alcatel-Lucent has set up Nuage Networks, a business venture addressing data centre networking bottlenecks. Nuage claims to have simplified network connectivity within and between data centres.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 7:18AM
"When we started the project it was not clear whether the market would go for 400 Gig or 1 Terabit. Now it seems that the market will start with 400 Gig."
Jimmy Mizrahi, ECI Telecom
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 8:13AM System vendors continue to trumpet their achievements in long-haul optical transmission speeds and overall data carried over fibre.
Alcatel-Lucent announced earlier this month that France Telecom-Orange is using the industry's first 400 Gigabit link, connecting Paris and Lyon, while Infinera has detailed a trial demonstrating 8 Terabit-per-second (Tbps) of capacity over 1,175km and using 500 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) super-channels.
"Integration always comes at the cost of crosstalk"
Peter Winzer, Bell Labs
Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 5:42PM 
"Without [photonic] integration you are doubling up your expensive opto-electronic components which doesn't scale"
Peter Winzer, Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs
Friday, January 11, 2013 at 10:05AM Flexible switching of high capacity traffic carried over ’super-channel' wavelengths is the goal of the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) research project.
Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 8:58AM 
Source: Gazzetabyte
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 9:16AM Avago Technologies has unveiled its first family of active optical cables for use in the data centre and for high performance computing.
The company has developed an optical module for use in the active optical cables (AOCs). Known as the Atlas 75x, the optical engine reduces the power consumption and cost of the AOC to better compete with direct-attach copper cables.
“Some 99 percent of [active optical cable] applications are 20m or less”
Sharon Hall, Avago
