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, August 2, 2010 at 11:30PM What is being announced?
BroadLight has announced its Lilac family of customer premise equipment (CPE) chips that support the Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) standard.
The company claims its GPON devices with be the first to be implemented using a 40nm CMOS process. The advanced CMOS process coupled with architectural enhancements will double processing performance while improving five-fold the packet-processing capability. The devices also come with a hardware abstraction layer that will help system vendors tailor their equipment.
"Traffic models and service models are not stable, and there are a lot of differences from carrier to carrier"
Didi Ivancovsky, BroadLight
Friday, July 16, 2010 at 7:57AM What is being announced?
ECI Telecom has detailed its wireless backhaul offering that spans the cell tower to the metro network. The 1Net wireless backhaul architecture supports traditional Sonet/SDH to full packet transport, with hybrid options in between, across various physical media.
“We can support any migration scheme an operator may have over any type of technology and physical medium, be it copper, fibre or microwave,” says Gil Epshtein, senior product marketing manager, network solutions division at ECI Telecom.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 5:22PM A Q&A with Andrew Schmitt, directing analyst, optical at Infonetics Research regarding ROADMs and his report's findings.
