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Friday, June 28, 2013 at 6:48AM Gazettabyte asked its Facebook followers if there is a textbook they value more than others, and why.
It could be a book from student days or a more recent one, work-related. Also asked were readers' interest and experiences with newer styles of learning - online, and books with interactive elements and accompanying websites. Books here include business and technology titles.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 2:28PM u2t Photonics announced recently a balanced detector that supports 64Gbaud. This promises coherent transmission systems with double the data rate. But even if the remaining components - the modulator and DSP-ASIC capable of operating at 64Gbaud - were available, would such an approach make sense?
Gazettabyte asked system vendors Transmode and Ciena for their views.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 10:27AM Arista Networks' latest 7500E switch is designed to improve the economics of building large-scale cloud networks.
The platform packs 30 Terabit-per-second (Tbps) of switching capacity in an 11 rack unit (RU) chassis, the same chassis as Arista's existing 7500 switch that, when launched in 2010, was described as capable of supporting several generations of switch design.
"The CFP2 is becoming available such that by the end of this year there might be supply for board vendors to think about releasing them in 2014. That is too far off."
Martin Hull, Arista Networks
Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 4:07PM
"The performance [of gallium arsenide] is very similar to the lithium niobate modulator"
Jens Fiedler, u2t Photonics
Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 1:55PM 
Source: Gazettabyte
Mellanox Technologies has announced its intention to acquire silicon photonics player, Kotura for $82 million.
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, 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.
