Optical industry drivers and why gazettabyte

"5 Minutes with Roy Rubenstein, publisher of gazettabyte"
An interview on Finisar's Lightspeed blog.
A bit more about gazettabyte in Write Thinking
And gazettabyte making news
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"5 Minutes with Roy Rubenstein, publisher of gazettabyte"
An interview on Finisar's Lightspeed blog.
A bit more about gazettabyte in Write Thinking
And gazettabyte making news
Feature
“This is a general rule: what starts as a series of parts loosely strung together, if used heavily enough, congeals into a self-contained unit.”
W. Brian Arthur, The Nature of Technology
Infinera's Dave Welch: PICs are fibre-optic's current disruption
Prof. Polina BayvelAn interview with Polina Bayvel, Professor of Optical Communications and Networks and head of the Optical Networks Group at University College London (UCL), on her ECOC conference impressions.
One theme dominated all others for attendees at this year’s ECOC, held in Vienna in late September: high speed optical transmission technology.
“Most of the action was in 40 and 100Gig,” said Stefan Rochus, vice president of marketing and business development at CyOptics. “There were many 40Gig/ 100Gig LR4 module announcements- from Finisar, Opnext and Sumitomo Electric Industries.”
Operators, enterprises and equipment vendors are all embracing 100 Gigabit technologies even though the standards will only be completed in June 2010.
An interview with Peter Bell, Access Platform Director, BT Innovate & Design on next generation passive optical networks (PONs). These include 10 Gigabit Ethernet PON (EPON) and Gigabit PON (GPON) and wavelength division multiplexing PON (WDM-PON).
Peter Bell, Access Platform Director, BT Innovate & Design
Q: The status of 10 Gigabit PON – 10G EPON and 10G GPON (XG-PON): Applications, where it will be likely be used, and why is it needed?
PB: IEEE 10G EPON: BT not directly involved but we have been tracking it and believe the standard is close to completion (gazettabyte: The standard was ratified in September 2009.)
Event:
Passive optical networking (PON) chip company, Broadlight, has been awarded a patent by the US Patent Office entitled: ‘Method and grant scheduler for cyclically allocating time slots to optical network units’.