100 Gigabit: The Coming Metro Opportunity
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:34AM Gazettabyte has published a Position Paper on the coming 100 Gigabit metro opportunity. (Click here to download a copy.) There has been several announcements in recent weeks from system and component vendors addressing 100 Gigabit metro networks.
The 19-page report looks at the status of the 100 Gigabit market, the drivers for 100 Gigabit deployment, the technology options and their merits. The paper then states how 100 Gigabit technologies such as direct-detection point-to-point, direct-detection WDM and coherent will fare in the metro.
ECOC 2011: Products and market trends
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:08AM There were several noteworthy announcements at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) held in Geneva in September. Gazettabyte spoke to Finisar, Oclaro and Opnext about their ECOC product announcements and the associated trends.
100 Gig module
Opnext announced the first 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) transponder at ECOC, a much anticipated industry development.
"Quite a few system vendors .... are looking at 'make-versus-buy' for the next-generation [of 100Gbps]."
Ross Saunders, Opnext
The CTO Interviews
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:54AM Gazettabyte has produced an ebook that includes the recent CTO interviews with Ciena, JDS Uniphase and Alcatel-Lucent.
To download the ebook, click here.
The book can be read using any ebook reader (the file has an .epub extention) but for best results please use the iBooks app on the iPhone or iPad.
The download file is large: 19M.
The ebook was created using the Book Creator app.
What innovation gives you: Marcus Weldon Q&A Part II
Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 7:13AM Marcus Weldon discusses network optimisation, the future of optical access, Wikipedia, and why a one-year technology lead is the best a system vendor can hope for, yet that one year can make all the difference. Part II of the Q&A with the corporate CTO of Alcatel-Lucent.
Photo: Denise Panyik-Dale
"The advantage window [of an innovative product] is typically only a year... Knowing that year exists doesn't mean that there is not a tremendous focus on innovation because that year is everything."
Marcus Weldon, Alcatel-Lucent
Transmode chooses coherent for 100 Gigabit metro
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 5:20PM Transmode has detailed its 100 Gigabit metro strategy based on a stackable rack, a concept borrowed from the datacom world.
The Swedish system vendor has adopted coherent detection technology for 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) optical transmission, unlike other recent metro announcements from ADVA Optical Networking and MultiPhy based on 100Gbps direct-detection.
"Metro is a little bit diverse. You see different requirements that you have to adapt to."
Intelligent networking: Q&A with Alcatel-Lucent's CTO
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 5:38PM Alcatel-Lucent's corporate CTO, Marcus Weldon, in a Q&A with Gazettabyte. Here, in Part 1, he talks about the future of the network, why developing in-house ASICs is important and why Bell Labs is researching quantum computing.
Marcus Weldon (left) with Jonathan Segel, executive director in the corporate CTO Group, holding the lightRadio cube. Photo: Denise Panyik-Dale
