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Sunday
Feb102013

Cisco Systems' intelligent light

Network optimisation continues to exercise operators and content service providers as their requirements evolve with the growth of services such as cloud computing. Cisco Systems' announced elastic core architecture aims to tackle  networking efficiency and address particular service provider requirements.

 

“The core [network] needs to be more robust, agile and programmable”

Sultan Dawood, Cisco

 

 

 

 

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Thursday
Feb072013

Optical transport to grow at a 10% CAGR through 2017

  • Global optical transport market to reach US $13bn in 2017
  • 100 Gigabit to grow at a 75% CAGR

 

"I won't be surprised if it [100 Gig] grows even faster"

Jimmy Yu, Dell'Oro Group

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday
Feb012013

Achieving 56 Gigabit VCSELs

A Q&A with Finisar's Jim Tatum, director of new product development. Tatum talks about the merits of the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and the challenges to get VCSELs to work at 56 Gigabit.

Briefing: VCSELs


VCSELs galore! A wafer of 28 Gig devices Source: Finisar

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Sunday
Jan272013

Optical transceiver market to grow 50 percent by 2017

  • The optical transceiver market will grow to US $5.1bn in 2017
  • The fierce price declines of 2012 will lessen during the forecast period
  • Stronger traffic growth could have a significant positive effect on transceiver market growth

 

"The price declines in 2012 were brutal but they will not happen again [during the forecast period]"

Vladimir Kozlov, LightCounting

 

 

 

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Friday
Jan252013

EZchip expands the role of the network processor

  • EZchip's NPS-400 will be a 200Gbps duplex chip capable of layer 2 to layer 7 network processing
  • The device is being aimed at edge routers and the data centre
  • First samples by year end

EZchip Semiconductor has announced a class of network processor capable of performing traditional data plane processing as well as higher layer networking tasks.
EZchip's announced NPS will extend the role of the network processor to encompass layer two to layer seven of the network. Source: EZchip
"It [the device family] is designed to provide processing for all the networking layers, from layer two all the way to layer seven," says Amir Eyal, EZChip’s vice president of business development. Network processors typically offer layer-two and layer-three processing only.

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Friday
Jan112013

A FOX-C approach to flexible optical switching

Flexible switching of high capacity traffic carried over ’super-channel' wavelengths is the goal of the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) research project.


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Thursday
Jan102013

PCIe 3.0 and USB 3.0 to link mobile chip

  • Both protocols to run on the MIPI Alliance's M-PHY transceiver
  • Goal is to exploit existing PCIe and USB driver and application software while benefitting from the low power M-PHY
  • OcuLink cable based on PCIe 3.0 promises up to 32 Gigabit 

 Source: Gazzetabyte

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