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Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 11:47AM Ciena and Ovum comment on the noteworthy developments and trends following the recent OFC 2014 exhibition and conference.
The high cost of 100 Gigabit Ethernet client modules has been a major disappointment to me as it has slowed adoption
Joe Berthold, Ciena
Friday, April 12, 2013 at 9:13AM Gazettabyte asked industry figures for their views after attending the recent OFC/NFOEC show.
"Spatial domain multiplexing has been a hot topic in R&D labs. However, at this year's OFC we found that incumbent and emerging carriers do not have a near-term need for this technology. Those working on spatial domain multiplexing development should adjust their efforts to align with end-users' needs"
T.J. Xia, Verizon
Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 2:59PM OpenFlow may be causing an industry stir as system vendors such as ADVA Optical Networking extend the protocol's reach to the optical layer, but analysts warn that it will take years before the technology benefits operators' revenues.
"We see OpenFlow as an additional solution to tackle the problem of network control"
Jörg-Peter Elbers, ADVA Optical Networking
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
