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Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 3:24PM Part 2: Hardware for SDN
Netronome has demonstrated its flow processor chip implementing the OpenFlow protocol, an open standard implementation of software-defined networking (SDN).
"What OpenFlow does is let you control the hardware that is handling the traffic in the network. The value to the end customer is what they can do with that"
David Wells, Netronome
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 8:13AM System vendors continue to trumpet their achievements in long-haul optical transmission speeds and overall data carried over fibre.
Alcatel-Lucent announced earlier this month that France Telecom-Orange is using the industry's first 400 Gigabit link, connecting Paris and Lyon, while Infinera has detailed a trial demonstrating 8 Terabit-per-second (Tbps) of capacity over 1,175km and using 500 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) super-channels.
"Integration always comes at the cost of crosstalk"
Peter Winzer, Bell Labs
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
