Sunday
Jun022013
Mellanox to acquire silicon photonics player Kotura
Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 1:55PM 
Source: Gazettabyte
Mellanox Technologies has announced its intention to acquire silicon photonics player, Kotura for $82 million.
Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 1:55PM Wednesday
May222013
Ethernet access switch chip boosts service support
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 6:56AM 
The Serval-2 architecture. Source: Vitesse
Vitesse Semiconductor has detailed its latest Carrier Ethernet access switch for mobile backhaul, cloud and enterprise services.
The Serval-2 chip broadens Vitesse's access switch offerings, adding 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports while near-tripling the switching capacity to 32 Gigabit; the Serval-2 has 2x10 GbE and 12 1GbE ports.
Thursday
May162013
Nuage Networks uses SDN to tackle data centre networking bottlenecks
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 1:10PM 
Three planes of the network that host Nuage's .Virtualised Services Platform (VSP). Source: Nuage Networks
Alcatel-Lucent has set up Nuage Networks, a business venture addressing data centre networking bottlenecks. Nuage claims to have simplified network connectivity within and between data centres.
Monday
May132013
Hybrid integration specialist Kaiam acquires Gemfire
Monday, May 13, 2013 at 8:03AM Kaiam Corp. has secured US $16M in C-round funding and completed the acquisition of Gemfire.
"We have a micro-machine technology that allows us to use standard pick-and-place electronic assembly tools, and with our micro-machine, we achieve sub-micron alignment tolerances suitable for single-mode applications"
Byron Trop, Kaiam
Wednesday
May082013
Effdon Networks extends the 10x10 MSA to 80km
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 9:43AM Effdon Networks has demonstrated a 100 Gigabit CFP module with an 80km reach; a claimed industry first. The company has also developed the Qbox, a 1 rack unit (1RU) extended reach platform capable of 400-800 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) with a reach of 80-200km.
Effdon's CFP does not require the use of external DWDM multiplexing/ demultiplexing and can be added directly onto a router. Source: Effdon Networks
Sunday
May052013
OFC/NFOEC 2013 industry reflections - Final part
Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 9:56AM Gazettabyte spoke with Jörg-Peter Elbers, vice president, advanced technology at ADVA Optical Networking about the state of the optical industry following the recent OFC/NFOEC exhibition.
"There were many people in the OFC workshops talking about getting rid of pluggability and the cages and getting the stuff mounted on the printed circuit board instead, as a cheaper, more scalable approach"
Jörg-Peter Elbers, ADVA Optical Networking
Monday
Apr292013
NextIO simplifies top of rack switching with I/O virtualisation
Monday, April 29, 2013 at 8:02AM NextIO has developed virtualised input/output (I/O) equipment that simplifies switch design in the data centre.
"Our box takes a single virtual NIC, virtualises that and shares that out with all the servers in a rack"
John Fruehe, NextIO
The platform, known as vNET, replaces both Fibre Channel and Ethernet top-of-rack switches in the data centre and is suited for use with small one rack unit (1RU) servers. The platform uses PCI Express (PCIe) to implement I/O virtualisation.
