Wednesday
Jun162010
ASICs and digital signal processing heat up the optical marketplace
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 6:32AM 
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 6:32AM Tuesday
Jun152010
Oclaro: R&D key for growth
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 9:33AM Alain Couder, Oclaro’s CEO, explains why he is upbeat about the photonics market and optical networking in particular.
“We didn’t sell to Intel,” explains Alain Couder, the boss of Oclaro. “Intel looked for a fab[rication plant] that has good VCSEL technology and that could scale and they found us.”
Couder was talking about how Oclaro became a supplier of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for Intel’s Light Peak optical cable interface technology. VCSELs are part of Oclaro’s Advanced Photonics Solutions, a division addressing non-telecom markets accounting for between 10 and 15 percent of the company’s revenues.
“I believe very clearly that if a component is available on the market, even if you are a module builder, you are much better off selling to your competition rather than having others do so.”
Alain Couder, Oclaro
Wednesday
Jun092010
Alcatel-Lucent reveals its 100Gbps-coherent hand
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 5:00PM
“It would be irresponsible of any system vendor to overlook a solution that can bring a cost advantage to their customer”
Sam Bucci, Alcatel-Lucent
What is being announced?
- Alcatel-Lucent has a commercially available 100Gbps optical transmission system.
- 40Gbps coherent transmission is also supported.
Wednesday
Jun022010
The InfiniBand roadmap gets redrawn
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 3:35PM The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has announced a new roadmap for the low latency bi-directional link. What was Eight Data Rate InfiniBand will now be known as Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) and be upgraded from 20Gbps to 26Gbps per channel. EDR will deliver a 104Gbps data rate in a four-channel InfiniBand (4x) implementation and 312Gbps when used as a 12-channel (12x) interface.
“We can already demonstrate in silicon a 30Gbps transmitter."
Marek Tlalka, Luxtera
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EDR, FDR, HDR, IBTA, Infiniband, LightCounting, Luxtera, NDR, technologies in gazettabits Print Article Tuesday
Jun012010
Ciena post-MEN
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 2:59PM Ciena has been busy since completing the acquisition of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business back in March.
“The 40G and 100G technology were key to the deal and we made sure that the core team was still there”
Tom Mock, Ciena
Thursday
May202010
Infinera PICs 100Gbps coherent
Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 11:56PM What is being announced?
Infinera is expediting its product plans, basing its optical transmission roadmap on coherent detection.
The company plans to launch a 100Gbps coherent transmission system in 2012. The design will be based on a pair of 5x100Gbps ultra-long-haul photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips to enable its systems to deliver 8 terabits-per-second (Tbps) over a fibre.
“This change in roadmap is because of the successful development of our 100G coherent ASIC programme, and we have integrated five 100Gbps coherent channels onto one card.”
Drew Perkins, Infinera
