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."
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
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
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 Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 10:15AM Briefing: Dynamic optical networks
Part 3: ROADM and control plane developments
ROADMs and control plane technology look set to finally deliver reconfigurable optical networks but challenges remain.
Operators are assessing how best to architect their networks - from the router to the optical layer - to boost efficiencies and reduce costs. It is developments at the photonic layer that promise to make the most telling contribution to lowering the cost of transport, a necessity given how the revenue-per-bit that carriers receive continues to dwindle.
Global ROADM forecast 2009 -14 in US $ miliions Source: Ovum
Monday, July 12, 2010 at 9:10AM Briefing: Dynamic optical networks
Part 2: Wavelength provisioning and network restoration
How are operators using reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs) in their networks? And just how often are their networks reconfigured? gazettabyte spoke to AT&T and Verizon Business.
Operators rarely make grand statements about new developments or talk in terms that could be mistaken for hyperbole.
“You create new paths; the network is never finished”
Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon Business
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.
