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
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 6:25PM Gazettabyte asked industry analysts, CEOs, executives and commentators to reflect on the last year and comment on developments they most anticipate for 2012. Here are the views of Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock, Professor Rod Tucker, Ciena's Joe Berthold, Opnext's Jon Anderson, NeoPhotonics' Tim Jenks and Vladimir Kozlov of LightCounting.
Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon's director of optical transport network architecture & design
The most significant accomplishment from an optical transport perspective for me was the introduction of 100 Gigabit into Verizon's domestic - US - network.
"The key technology enabler in 2012 will be the flexible grid optical switching that can support data rates beyond 100 Gigabit"
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 8:28AM Next-generation reconfigurable optical add/ drop multiplexers (ROADMs) will perform an important role in simplifying network operation but optical component vendors making the core component - the wavelength-selective switch (WSS) - on which such ROADMs will be based should expect a limited return for their efforts.
"[Component suppliers] are going to be under extreme constraints on pricing and cost"
Sterling Perrin, Heavy Reading
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 5:38PM Alcatel-Lucent's corporate CTO, Marcus Weldon, in a Q&A with Gazettabyte. Here, in Part 1, he talks about the future of the network, why developing in-house ASICs is important and why Bell Labs is researching quantum computing.
Marcus Weldon (left) with Jonathan Segel, executive director in the corporate CTO Group, holding the lightRadio cube. Photo: Denise Panyik-Dale
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 2:15PM In Part 1 of a Q&A with Gazettabyte, Brandon Collins, JDS Uniphase's CTO for communications and commercial optical products, reflects on the key optical networking developments of the coming decade, how the role of optical component vendors is changing and next-generation ROADMs.
"For transmission components, photonic integration is the name of the game. If you are not doing it, you are not going to be a player"
Brandon Collins (left), JDSU
Monday, July 18, 2011 at 11:32AM Chart Watch: Ovum Components
The service provider industry, including wireless and wireline players, is up 6% year-on-year (2Q10 to 1Q11) to reach US $1.82 trillion, according to Ovum. The equipment market, mainly telecom vendors but also the likes of Brocade, has also shown strong growth - up 15% - to reach revenues of over $41.4 billion. But the most striking growth has occurred in the optical components market, up 28%, to achieve revenues of over $6 billion, says the market research firm.
Source: Ovum
Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 5:56PM Gazettabyte spoke with Larry Schwerin, CEO of Capella Intelligent Subsystems, about the ROADM market, the company's plans following its latest funding round, and the idea of a WSS-on-a-chip.
The reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) market has been the best performing segment of the optical networking market over the last year. According to Infonetics Research, ROADM-based wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) equipment grew 20% from Q2, 2010 to Q1, 2011 whereas the overall optical networking market grew 7%.
“It’s the Moore’s Law: Every two years we are doubling the capacity in terms of channel count and port count”
Larry Schwerin, Capella
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