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Friday, April 5, 2013 at 12:51PM Q&A with Andrew Lord, head of optical research at BT, about his impressions following the recent OFC/NFOEC show.
OFC/NFOEC reflections: Part 1
"We [operators] need to move faster"
Andrew Lord, BT
Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 9:20AM Briefing: Silicon photonics
Part 1: Optical interconnect
Luxtera demonstrated a 100 Gigabit QSFP optical module at the OFC/NFOEC 2013 exhibition.
"We're in discussions with a lot of memory vendors, switch vendors and different ASIC providers"
Chris Bergey, Luxtera
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 6:22PM Kotura has announced a 100 Gigabit QSFP with a reach of 2km.
“QSFP will be the long-term winner at 100 Gig; the same way QSFP has been a high volume winner at 40 Gig”
Arlon Martin, Kotura
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 7:18AM
"When we started the project it was not clear whether the market would go for 400 Gig or 1 Terabit. Now it seems that the market will start with 400 Gig."
Jimmy Mizrahi, ECI Telecom
Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 9:09AM 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
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 6:26AM Market research firm Dell'Oro Group has reported that the global optical transport equipment market in the first half of 2012 shrank 5 percent, to US $6.1 billion. In the latest 60-second interview, Gazettabyte spoke with Jimmy Yu, vice president of optical transport research at Dell’Oro Group.
"For the year, it is going to be a fivefold growth rate [for 100 Gig transport]."
Jimmy Yu, Dell'Oro
Monday, April 16, 2012 at 11:46AM The recent OFC/NFOEC show, held in Los Angeles, had a strong vendor presence. Gazettabyte spoke with Infinera's Dave Welch, chief strategy officer and executive vice president, about his impressions of the show, capacity challenges facing the industry, and the importance of the company's photonic integrated circuit technology in light of recent competitor announcements.
OFC/NFOEC reflections: Part 1
"I need as much fibre capacity as I can get, but I also need reach"
Dave Welch, Infinera
