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Friday, January 13, 2012 at 1:12PM A Q&A with Andrew Schmitt (@aschmitt), directing analyst for optical at Infonetics Research.
"40Gbps has even less value in the metro than in the core"
Andrew Schmitt, Infonetics Research
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:34AM Gazettabyte has published a Position Paper on the coming 100 Gigabit metro opportunity. (Click here to download a copy.) There has been several announcements in recent weeks from system and component vendors addressing 100 Gigabit metro networks.
The 19-page report looks at the status of the 100 Gigabit market, the drivers for 100 Gigabit deployment, the technology options and their merits. The paper then states how 100 Gigabit technologies such as direct-detection point-to-point, direct-detection WDM and coherent will fare in the metro.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 5:20PM Transmode has detailed its 100 Gigabit metro strategy based on a stackable rack, a concept borrowed from the datacom world.
The Swedish system vendor has adopted coherent detection technology for 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) optical transmission, unlike other recent metro announcements from ADVA Optical Networking and MultiPhy based on 100Gbps direct-detection.
"Metro is a little bit diverse. You see different requirements that you have to adapt to."
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:56PM MultiPhy has detailed its 100 Gigabit direct-detection receiver IC for use in a pluggable CFP optical module addressing the metro market.
The MP1100Q chip is being aimed at two cost-conscious metro networking requirements: 100 Gigabit point-to-point links and dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) metro networks.
The MP1100Q as part of a 100 Gig CFP module design. Source: MultiPhy
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 8:43AM Infinera has announced a core network platform that combines Optical Transport Network (OTN) switching with dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transport. "We are looking at a system that integrates two layers of the network," says Mike Capuano, vice president of corporate marketing at Infinera.
"This is 100Tbps of non-blocking switching, all functioning as one system. You just can't do that with merchant silicon."
Mike Capuano, Infinera
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 3:34PM Brandon Collings, JDS Uniphase's CTO for communications and commercial optical products, talks about fostering innovation and what is coming after 100 Gigabit optical transmission. Part II of a Q&A with Gazettabyte.
"What happens after 100 Gig is going to be very interesting"
Brandon Collings (right), JDSU
1 Terabit, 100G, 200G, 400G, ASICs, Brandon Collings, Coherent, Innovation, OTN, Tunable SFP+ in CTO interview Print Article Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 9:31AM In Part 2 of the Q&A, Steve Alexander, CTO of Ciena, shares his thoughts about the network and technology trends.
Part 2: Networking and technology
"The network must be a lot more dynamic and responsive"
Steve Alexander, Ciena CTO
