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
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 9:31AM Recent market research suggests that the 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) era is fast-approaching and that 100Gbps promises to leave the 40Gbps market opportunity in its wake.
“It could easily be ten to 15 years before we see 100Gbps in a big way on the public network side”
Mark Lutkowitz, Telecom Pragmatics
Monday, November 29, 2010 at 1:43PM Visiting Israeli start-up MultiPhy at its office in Ness Ziona, near Rehovot, involves dancing around boxes. “We are about to move,” apologises Ronen Weinberg, director of product management at MultiPhy. But the company will not have to travel far. It is crossing buildings in the same Ness Ziona Science Park, moving in next to Finisar’s Israeli headquarters.
MultiPhy's Avi Shabtai (left) and Ronen Weinberg
100Gbps, 40Gbps, Clariphy, Coherent, CoreOptics, DPSK, DQPSK, MLSE, MultiPHY, Opnext, direct-detection in gazettabits Print Article Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 9:13AM In the first of a two-part interview, Rafik Ward, vice president of marketing at Finisar, talks about 40 and 100 Gigabit optics, emerging market opportunities and why this is the best time for a decade to be in the optical components industry.
"This is probably the strongest growth we have seen since the last bubble of 1999-2000." Rafik Ward, Finisar
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 5:00PM
“It would be irresponsible of any system vendor to overlook a solution that can bring a cost advantage to their customer”
Sam Bucci, Alcatel-Lucent
What is being announced?
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 5:25PM Briefing: High-speed optical transmission.
Part 2: 40 and 100Gbps optical transmission
The market for 40 and 100 Gigabit-per-second optical transmission is set to grow over the next five years at a rate unmatched by any other optical networking segment. Such growth may excite the industry but vendors have tough decisions to make as to how best to pursue the opportunity.
Market research firm Ovum forecasts that the wide area network (WAN) dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) market for 40 and 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) linecards will have a 79% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) till 2014.
In turn, 40 and 100Gbps transponder volumes will grow even faster, at 100% CAGR till 2015, while revenues from 40 and 100Gbps transponder sale will have a 65% CAGR during the same period.
Yet with such rude growth comes uncertainty.
“We upgraded to 40Gbps because we believe – we are certain, in fact – that across the router and backbone it [40Gbps technology] is cheaper”
Jim King, AT&T Labs.
Systems, transponder and component vendors all have to decide what next-generation modulation schemes to pursue for 40Gbps to complement the now established differential phase-shift keying (DPSK). There are also questions regarding the cost of the different modulation options, while vendors must assess what impact 100Gbps will have on the 40Gbps market and when the 100Gbps market will take off.
“What is clear to us is how muddled the picture is,” says Matt Traverso, senior manager, technical marketing at Opnext.
