Q&A with Jerry Rawls - Part 2

The concluding part of the interview with Finisar's executive chairman and company co-founder, Jerry Rawls, to mark the company's 25th anniversary.

Second and final part

Guys that are in the silicon photonics industry have a religion. It does not make any difference what the real economics are, what the real performance is, they talk with a religious fervour about what might be possible with silicon 

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Terabit interconnect to take hold in the data centre

Intel and Corning have further detailed their 1.6 Terabit interface technology for the data centre.

The collaboration combines Intel's silicon photonics technology operating at 25 Gigabit-per-fibre with Corning's ClearCurve LX multimode fibre and latest MXC connector.

Silicon photonics wafer and the ClearCurve fibres. Source: Intel

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Coriant adds optical control to SDN framework

Coriant's CTO, Uwe Fischer, explains its Intelligent Optical Control and how the system will complement Transport SDN.

"You either master all that complexity at once, or you find the right entry point and provide value for each concrete challenge, and extend step-by-step from there" 

Uwe Fischer, CTO of Coriant

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Interview with Finisar's Jerry Rawls

Finisar is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Gazettabyte interviewed Finisar's executive chairman and company co-founder, Jerry Rawls, to mark the anniversary.

Part 1

Jerry Rawls, Finisar's executive chairman and co-founder

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OIF defines carrier requirements for SDN

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has achieved its first milestone in defining the carrier requirements for software-defined networking (SDN).

"The orchestration layer will coordinate the data centre and transport network activities and give ... easy access to new applications"

Hans-Martin Foisel, OIF

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Bell Labs on silicon photonics

Briefing: Silicon Photonics

Part 2: A system vendor's perspective

• Silicon photonics as a technology has its challenges
• Its biggest impact could be to shake up the industry's optical component supply chain
• Silicon photonics will not displace VCSELs

An interview with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs' Martin Zirngibl, domain leader for enabling physical technologies, on the merits and potential impact of silicon photonics

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Mobile backhaul chips rise to the LTE challenge

The Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular standard has a demanding set of mobile backhaul requirements. Gazettabyte looks at two different chip designs for LTE mobile backhaul, from PMC-Sierra and from Broadcom.

"Each [LTE Advanced cell] sector will be over 1 Gig and there will be a need to migrate the backhaul to 10 Gig"

Liviu Pinchas, PMC-Sierra

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