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Monday, November 16, 2009 at 9:07AM Behind the numbers
CIR’s report key findings
The global market for active optical cable (AOC) is forecast to grow to US $1.5bn by 2014, with the linking of datacenter equipment being the largest single market valued at $835m. Other markets for the cabling technology include digital signage, PC interconnect and home theatre.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 10:07AM Having begun a gazettabyte feature on optical transceiver roadmaps, here are some useful references. I will keep updating the entry as the article progresses.
Industry bodies
The CFP Multi-Source Agreement (MSA): The hot-pluggable optical transceiver form factor for 40Gbps and 100Gbps applications
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7:01AM Does AT&T's Domain Supplier programme mark a nod to the past when carriers were vertically integrated?
“We’ll go with only two players [per domain] and there will be a lot more collaboration.”
Tim Harden, AT&T
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 6:03AM Behind the numbers
Source: ADVA Optical Networking
“The focus of operators to squeeze the last dollar out of the system and optical component vendors is really nonsense.”
Klaus Grobe, ADVA Optical Networking.
Key findings
The total cost of ownership (TCO) of a widely deployed WDM-PON network is at least 20 percent cheaper than the broadband alternatives of VDSL and GPON. Given that the cost of deploying a wide-scale access network in a large western European country is €60bn, a 20 percent cost saving is huge, even if spread over 25 years.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 9:24AM "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
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:39AM 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
