Friday, January 6, 2012 at 1:33PM The third and final part on what CEOs, executives and industry analysts expect during the new year, and their reflections on 2011.
Karen Liu, principal analyst, components telecoms, Ovum @girlgeekanalyst
"We’ve entered the next decade for real: the mobile world is unified around LTE and moving to LTE Advanced, complete with small cells and heterogenous networks including Wi-Fi."
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 8:49AM Despite warnings that price cutting could erode the margins of high-valued optical components, analysts explain why they remain upbeat about the market's prospects.
"An organisation's gross margins ride on these new products"
Daryl Inniss, Ovum Components.
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 9:22PM 
Click here for the market spotlight ROADM article written for LightReading. See also the comment discussions.
3D MEMS, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Huawei, LightReading, ROADMs, Tellabs, WSS in Blog Print Article Friday, October 15, 2010 at 10:06AM In the second and final part, Rafik Ward, vice president of marketing at Finisar, discusses Google’s call for a new 100 Gig interface, the ECOC show, and what Finisar has learnt from running a corporate blog.
"Feedback we are getting from customers is that the current 100 Gig LR4 modules are too expensive"
Rafik Ward, Finisar
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 5:23PM 
Guest blog on Lightwave magazine, click here
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 10:21AM The telecom industry is right up there when it comes to acronyms and complex naming schemes but it is probably no worse than other industries.
One only has to look at neighbouring IT and cloud computing in particular with its PaaS, IaaS and SaaS (Platform-, Infrastructure- and Software-as-a-Service).
But when it comes to agile optical networking and the reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM), what is notable is the smarts that are being added and yet all are described using the “-less” suffix: colourless, directionless, contentionless and gridless.
These are all logical names once the enhancements they add are explained. But as Infonetics Research analyst Andrew Schmitt has pointed out, the industry could do better with its naming schemes. Even the most gifted sales person may be challenged selling the merits of a colourless, directionless product.
