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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 9:34AM 
Improving the switching capabilities of telecom platforms without redesigning the switch as well as tinier 100 Gigabit transmitters are just two recent initiatives of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 6:25PM Gazettabyte asked industry analysts, CEOs, executives and commentators to reflect on the last year and comment on developments they most anticipate for 2012. Here are the views of Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock, Professor Rod Tucker, Ciena's Joe Berthold, Opnext's Jon Anderson, NeoPhotonics' Tim Jenks and Vladimir Kozlov of LightCounting.
Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon's director of optical transport network architecture & design
The most significant accomplishment from an optical transport perspective for me was the introduction of 100 Gigabit into Verizon's domestic - US - network.
"The key technology enabler in 2012 will be the flexible grid optical switching that can support data rates beyond 100 Gigabit"
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 6:21PM Gazettabyte has asked industry analysts, CEOs, executives and commentators to reflect on the last year and comment on developments they most anticipate for 2012.
"For 2012, the macroeconomy is likely to dominate any other developments"
Martin Geddes, telecom consultant @martingeddes
Sometimes the important stuff is slow-burning: we're seeing a continued decline in the traditional network equipment providers, and the rise in Genband, Acme, Sonus and Metaswitch in their place. Smaller, leaner, and more used to serving Tier 2 and Tier 3 operators and enterprise players and their lower cost structures.
100G, CFP2, CFP4, FPGAs, Google, LTE-Advanced, TCAMs, super-channel, video, voice in gazettabits Print Article Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 8:28AM Next-generation reconfigurable optical add/ drop multiplexers (ROADMs) will perform an important role in simplifying network operation but optical component vendors making the core component - the wavelength-selective switch (WSS) - on which such ROADMs will be based should expect a limited return for their efforts.
"[Component suppliers] are going to be under extreme constraints on pricing and cost"
Sterling Perrin, Heavy Reading
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 9:15AM Gazettabyte has posted the in-depth briefing features planned for 2012.
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Friday, December 9, 2011 at 8:06AM Alcatel-Lucent has enhanced the optical performance of its 100 Gigabit technology with the launch of its extended reach (100G XR) line card. Extending the reach of 100 Gigabit systems helps makes the technology more attractive when compared to existing 40 Gigabit optical transport.
"We have built some rather large [data centre to data centre] networks with spans larger that 1,000km in totality"
Sam Bucci, Alcatel-Lucent
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:52AM Oclaro has detailed its 100 Gigabit coherent optical module that will be available from the second quarter of 2012. The MI 8000XM, a 5x7-inch 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) transponder, uses NTT Electronics' (NEL) analogue-to-digital converter/ digital signal processor (DSP) ASIC at the receiver that compensates for transmission impairments.
“The world is moving to coherent, there is no question about that”
Per Hansen, Oclaro
