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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.
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The download file is large: 19M.
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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
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."
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
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
