Sunday
Jun022013
Mellanox to acquire silicon photonics player Kotura
Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 1:55PM 
Source: Gazettabyte
Mellanox Technologies has announced its intention to acquire silicon photonics player, Kotura for $82 million.
Entries in silicon photonics (57)
Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 1:55PM Sunday
May052013
OFC/NFOEC 2013 industry reflections - Final part
Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 9:56AM Gazettabyte spoke with Jörg-Peter Elbers, vice president, advanced technology at ADVA Optical Networking about the state of the optical industry following the recent OFC/NFOEC exhibition.
"There were many people in the OFC workshops talking about getting rid of pluggability and the cages and getting the stuff mounted on the printed circuit board instead, as a cheaper, more scalable approach"
Jörg-Peter Elbers, ADVA Optical Networking
Tuesday
Apr162013
Avago to acquire CyOptics
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 8:12AM - Avago to become the second largest optical component player
- Company gains laser and photonic integration technologies
- The goal is to grow data centre and enterprise market share
- CyOptics achieved revenues of $210M in 2012
How the acquisition of CyOptics will expand Avago's market opportunities. SAM is the serviceable addressable market and TAM is the total addressable market. Source: AvagoFriday
Apr122013
OFC/NFOEC 2013 industry reflections - Part 4
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
Wednesday
Apr102013
OFC/NFOEC 2013 industry reflections - Part 3
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 9:22AM 
Joe Berthold, vice president of network architecture, Ciena
The two topics that received the most attention, judging from session attendance and discussion in the hallways, were silicon photonics and software-defined networking (SDN). I predict that next year those who wish to capitalise on this popularity wave will be submitting papers on SDN-enabled silicon photonics.
Tuesday
Apr092013
OFC/NFOEC 2013 product round-up - Part 1
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 3:52PM Part 1: Client-side transceivers
- First CFP2 single-mode and multi-mode transceiver announcements
- Cisco Systems unveils its CPAK module
- 100 Gigabit QSFPs from Kotura and Luxtera
- CFP2 and 40km CFP 10x10 MSA modules
- Infiniband FDR and 'LR4 superset' QSFPs
tagged 100GBase-LR4, 100GBase-SR10, 40GBASE-LR4, 40GBASE-SR4, CFP, CFP2, CPAK, ER4, QSFP+, silicon photonics in OFC/NFOEC 2013 Print Article
100GBase-LR4, 100GBase-SR10, 40GBASE-LR4, 40GBASE-SR4, CFP, CFP2, CPAK, ER4, QSFP+, silicon photonics in OFC/NFOEC 2013 Print Article Tuesday
Apr092013
OFC/NFOEC 2013 industry reflections - Part 2
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 9:27AM Gazettabyte asked industry figures for their views after attending the recent OFC/NFOEC show held in Anaheim. Part 2
Bill Gartner, vice president and general manager of high-end routing and optical business unit at Cisco Systems.
There were several key themes during this year’s OFC conference, but what I found most compelling were the disruptive trends and technologies that stand to significantly impact the optical communications market in the coming years.
"SDN could be the single biggest disruptor in the transport industry and has the potential to transform network programmability and orchestration"
