The price of propping up an industry
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 5:23PM 
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Photonic integration Transceiver roadmap High-speed transmission Agile optical networking
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 5:23PM 
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Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 6:14PM Transceiver feature: Part 2
At first sight, optical transceiver vendors have little scope for product differentiation. Modules are defined through a multi-source agreement (MSA) and used to transport specified protocols over predefined distances.

“Their attitude is let the big guys kill themselves at 40 and 100 Gig while they beat down costs"
Vladimir Kozlov, LightCounting
100Gbps,
40GbE,
Fibre Channel,
Finisar,
Juniper Networks,
LightCounting,
MSA,
Ovum,
PON,
SONET,
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Monday, November 16, 2009 at 9:07AM Behind the numbers

CIR’s report key findings
The global market for active optical cable (AOC) is forecast to grow to US $1.5bn by 2014, with the linking of datacenter equipment being the largest single market valued at $835m. Other markets for the cabling technology include digital signage, PC interconnect and home theatre.