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Friday, March 15, 2013 at 6:56AM Next week's OFC/NFOEC conference and exhibition, to be held in Anaheim, California, provides an opportunity to assess developments in the network and the data centre and get an update on emerging, potentially disruptive technologies.
Source: Gazettabyte
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 11:59AM Start-up Compass Electro-Optical Systems has announced an IP core router based on a chip with a Terabit-plus optical interface.
Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, showing Gazettabyte Compass-EOS's novel icPhotonics chip
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 2:10PM 
Source: The Optical Society
Network evolution strategies, state-of-the-art optical deployments, next-generation PON and data centre interconnect are just some of the technical paper highlights of the upcoming OFC/NFOEC conference and exhibition, to be held in Anaheim, California from March 17-21, 2013. Here is a selection of the papers.
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
