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Friday, September 23, 2011 at 8:49AM Despite warnings that price cutting could erode the margins of high-valued optical components, analysts explain why they remain upbeat about the market's prospects.
"An organisation's gross margins ride on these new products"
Daryl Inniss, Ovum Components.
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:56PM MultiPhy has detailed its 100 Gigabit direct-detection receiver IC for use in a pluggable CFP optical module addressing the metro market.
The MP1100Q chip is being aimed at two cost-conscious metro networking requirements: 100 Gigabit point-to-point links and dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) metro networks.
The MP1100Q as part of a 100 Gig CFP module design. Source: MultiPhy
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 8:43AM Infinera has announced a core network platform that combines Optical Transport Network (OTN) switching with dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transport. "We are looking at a system that integrates two layers of the network," says Mike Capuano, vice president of corporate marketing at Infinera.
"This is 100Tbps of non-blocking switching, all functioning as one system. You just can't do that with merchant silicon."
Mike Capuano, Infinera
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 6:10PM A European Union research project is looking at ways to expand by one-hundredfold the capacity of an optical fibre. The project will need to develop techniques to exploit multimode and specialist fibre, and if successful, will require new fibre deployments in the network.
"In the end you run out of the ability to transmit more information along a single-mode fibre"
Ian Giles, Phoenix Photonics
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 11:59AM ADVA Optical Networking has launched a 100 Gigabit transmission card designed for metro wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) applications.
The firm claims this is an industry first: a direct-detection-based 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) design using four, 28Gbps channels rather than current 10x10Gbps schemes.
"Data centre operators want to make best use of the fibre insfrastructure and get lower overall cost, footprint and power consumption"
Jörg-Peter Elbers, ADVA Optical Networking
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 8:56AM 
Source: Gazettabyte
Optical transmission technology is starting to bump into fundamental limits, resulting in a three-way tradeoff between data rate, reach and channel bandwidth.
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 3:34PM Brandon Collings, JDS Uniphase's CTO for communications and commercial optical products, talks about fostering innovation and what is coming after 100 Gigabit optical transmission. Part II of a Q&A with Gazettabyte.
"What happens after 100 Gig is going to be very interesting"
Brandon Collings (right), JDSU
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