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Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 5:42PM 
"Without [photonic] integration you are doubling up your expensive opto-electronic components which doesn't scale"
Peter Winzer, Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 10:43AM The OIF's Carrier Working Group is assessing how software-defined networking (SDN) will impact transport. Hans-Martin Foisel, chair of the OIF working group, explains SDN's importance for operators.
Briefing: Software-defined networking
Part 1: Operator interest in SDN
"Using SDN use cases, we are trying to derive whether the transport network is ready or if there is some missing functionality"
Hans-Martin Foisel, OIF
Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 9:09AM Network optimisation continues to exercise operators and content service providers as their requirements evolve with the growth of services such as cloud computing. Cisco Systems' announced elastic core architecture aims to tackle networking efficiency and address particular service provider requirements.
“The core [network] needs to be more robust, agile and programmable”
Sultan Dawood, Cisco
Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 3:07PM
"I won't be surprised if it [100 Gig] grows even faster"
Jimmy Yu, Dell'Oro Group
Friday, February 1, 2013 at 4:15AM A Q&A with Finisar's Jim Tatum, director of new product development. Tatum talks about the merits of the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and the challenges to get VCSELs to work at 56 Gigabit.
Briefing: VCSELs
VCSELs galore! A wafer of 28 Gig devices Source: Finisar
Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 1:54PM
"The price declines in 2012 were brutal but they will not happen again [during the forecast period]"
Vladimir Kozlov, LightCounting
Friday, January 25, 2013 at 3:25PM EZchip Semiconductor has announced a class of network processor capable of performing traditional data plane processing as well as higher layer networking tasks.
EZchip's announced NPS will extend the role of the network processor to encompass layer two to layer seven of the network. Source: EZchip
"It [the device family] is designed to provide processing for all the networking layers, from layer two all the way to layer seven," says Amir Eyal, EZChip’s vice president of business development. Network processors typically offer layer-two and layer-three processing only.
