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Friday, September 23, 2011 at 5:38PM Alcatel-Lucent's corporate CTO, Marcus Weldon, in a Q&A with Gazettabyte. Here, in Part 1, he talks about the future of the network, why developing in-house ASICs is important and why Bell Labs is researching quantum computing.
Marcus Weldon (left) with Jonathan Segel, executive director in the corporate CTO Group, holding the lightRadio cube. Photo: Denise Panyik-Dale
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 2:15PM In Part 1 of a Q&A with Gazettabyte, Brandon Collings, JDS Uniphase's CTO for communications and commercial optical products, reflects on the key optical networking developments of the coming decade, how the role of optical component vendors is changing and next-generation ROADMs.
"For transmission components, photonic integration is the name of the game. If you are not doing it, you are not going to be a player"
Brandon Collings (left), JDSU
Monday, July 18, 2011 at 11:32AM Chart Watch: Ovum Components
The service provider industry, including wireless and wireline players, is up 6% year-on-year (2Q10 to 1Q11) to reach US $1.82 trillion, according to Ovum. The equipment market, mainly telecom vendors but also the likes of Brocade, has also shown strong growth - up 15% - to reach revenues of over $41.4 billion. But the most striking growth has occurred in the optical components market, up 28%, to achieve revenues of over $6 billion, says the market research firm.
Source: Ovum
Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 5:56PM Gazettabyte spoke with Larry Schwerin, CEO of Capella Intelligent Subsystems, about the ROADM market, the company's plans following its latest funding round, and the idea of a WSS-on-a-chip.
The reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) market has been the best performing segment of the optical networking market over the last year. According to Infonetics Research, ROADM-based wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) equipment grew 20% from Q2, 2010 to Q1, 2011 whereas the overall optical networking market grew 7%.
“It’s the Moore’s Law: Every two years we are doubling the capacity in terms of channel count and port count”
Larry Schwerin, Capella
1x20 WSS, Capella, Gridless, Infonetics, ROADM, SingTel, Verizon, colourless, directionless in CEO Interview Print Article Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 8:14AM 
Quarterly market revenues, global optical networking (1Q 2011). Source: Ovum
Despite recent falls in optical equipment makers’ stock, the optical networking market remains in good health with analysts predicting 6-7% growth in 2011.
For Andrew Schmitt, directing analyst for optical at Infonetics Research, unfulfilled expectations are nothing new. Optical networking is a market of single-digit yearly growth yet in the last year certain market segments have grown above average: spending on ROADM-based wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical network equipment, for example, has grown 20% since the first quarter of 2010.
Monday, April 11, 2011 at 10:57AM Avago Technologies, Finisar and Opnext spoke to Gazettabyte about market trends and their recent OFC/NFOEC announcements.
More compact transceiver designs at 10, 40 and 100 Gigabit, advancements in reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) technology and parallel optical engine developments were all in evidence at this year’s OFC/NFOEC show held in Los Angeles in March.
“MSAs are designed by committee, and when you have a committee you throw away innovation and you throw away time-to-market”
Victor Krutul, Avago Technologies
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 10:15AM Briefing: Dynamic optical networks
Part 3: ROADM and control plane developments
ROADMs and control plane technology look set to finally deliver reconfigurable optical networks but challenges remain.
Operators are assessing how best to architect their networks - from the router to the optical layer - to boost efficiencies and reduce costs. It is developments at the photonic layer that promise to make the most telling contribution to lowering the cost of transport, a necessity given how the revenue-per-bit that carriers receive continues to dwindle.
Global ROADM forecast 2009 -14 in US $ miliions Source: Ovum
