OFC/NFOEC 2013 industry reflections - Part 2

Gazettabyte asked industry figures for their views after attending the recent OFC/NFOEC show held in Anaheim. Part 2

Bill Gartner, vice president and general manager of high-end routing and optical business unit at Cisco Systems.

There were several key themes during this year’s OFC conference, but what I found most compelling were the disruptive trends and technologies that stand to significantly impact the optical communications market in the coming years.

"SDN could be the single biggest disruptor in the transport industry and has the potential to transform network programmability and orchestration"

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Luxtera's interconnect strategy

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

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Kotura demonstrates a 100 Gigabit QSFP

Kotura has announced a 100 Gigabit QSFP with a reach of 2km.  

“QSFP will be the long-term winner at 100 Gig; the same way QSFP has been a high volume winner at 40 Gig”

Arlon Martin, Kotura

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Aurrion mixes datacom and telecom lasers on a wafer

Silicon photonics player, Aurrion, has detailed the making of multiple laser designs for datacom and telecom on a single wafer. The multiple designs on one wafer benefit the economics of telecom lasers by manufacturing them alongside higher-volume datacom sources.

"There is an inevitability of the co-mingling of electronics and optics and we are just at the beginning"

Eric Hall, Aurrion

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OFC/NFOEC 2013 to highlight a period of change

Next week's OFC/NFOEC conference and exhibition, to be held in Anaheim, California, provides an opportunity to assess developments in the network and the data centre and get an update on emerging, potentially disruptive technologies.

Source: Gazettabyte

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Fibre-to-the-NPU: optics reshapes the IP core router

Start-up Compass Electro-Optical Systems has announced an IP core router based on a chip with a Terabit-plus optical interface.

Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, showing Gazettabyte Compass-EOS's novel icPhotonics chip

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OFC/NFOEC 2013: Technical paper highlights

Source: The Optical Society

Network evolution strategies, state-of-the-art optical deployments, next-generation PON and data centre interconnect are just some of the technical paper highlights of the upcoming OFC/NFOEC conference and exhibition, to be held in Anaheim, California from March 17-21, 2013. Here is a selection of the papers.

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