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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
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 5:39AM 
Prof. Polina BayvelAn interview with Polina Bayvel, Professor of Optical Communications and Networks and head of the Optical Networks Group at University College London (UCL), on her ECOC conference impressions.
Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 3:49PM One theme dominated all others for attendees at this year’s ECOC, held in Vienna in late September: high speed optical transmission technology.
“Most of the action was in 40 and 100Gig,” said Stefan Rochus, vice president of marketing and business development at CyOptics. “There were many 40Gig/ 100Gig LR4 module announcements- from Finisar, Opnext and Sumitomo Electric Industries.”
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:59PM Operators, enterprises and equipment vendors are all embracing 100 Gigabit technologies even though the standards will only be completed in June 2010.
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 12:04PM An interview with Peter Bell, Access Platform Director, BT Innovate & Design on next generation passive optical networks (PONs). These include 10 Gigabit Ethernet PON (EPON) and Gigabit PON (GPON) and wavelength division multiplexing PON (WDM-PON).
Peter Bell, Access Platform Director, BT Innovate & Design
Q: The status of 10 Gigabit PON – 10G EPON and 10G GPON (XG-PON): Applications, where it will be likely be used, and why is it needed?
PB: IEEE 10G EPON: BT not directly involved but we have been tracking it and believe the standard is close to completion (gazettabyte: The standard was ratified in September 2009.)
Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 5:30PM Event:
Passive optical networking (PON) chip company, Broadlight, has been awarded a patent by the US Patent Office entitled: ‘Method and grant scheduler for cyclically allocating time slots to optical network units’.
Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 11:12PM 
Jim Hjartarson, CEO of OneChip PhotonicsAn interview with Jim Hjartarson, CEO of OneChip Photonics
Q. In March 2009, OneChip raised $19.5m. How difficult is it nowadays for an optical component firm to receive venture capital funding?
A. Clearly, the venture capital community, given the current macroeconomic environment, is being selective about the new investments it makes in the technology market in general, and photonics in particular.
