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Entries in ASICs (3)

Monday
Aug082016

Juniper Networks to acquire Aurrion for $165 million

The announcement of the acquisition was low key. A CTO blog post and a statement that Juniper Networks had entered into an agreement to acquire Aurrion, the fabless silicon photonics start-up. No fee was mentioned.

However, in the company's US Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Juniper values the deal at approximately $165 million. "The Company believes the acquisition will help to fuel its long-term competitive advantage by enabling cost-effective, high-density, high-speed optical networks," it said. The deal is expected to be closed this quarter.

 

Source: Gazettabyte

At first glance, Juniper is simply the latest in a series of systems vendors bringing silicon photonics in-house. Silicon photonics is a technology that allows photonic devices to be made on a silicon substrate, fabricated in a CMOS facility.

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Tuesday
Aug142012

Cortina unveils multi-channel dispersion compensation chip 

Cortina Systems has announced its latest electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) chip.  The CS4342 is a compact device that supports eight duplex 10 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) links. 

 

"Some customers are doing 2,000 signals at 10 Gig across the backplane"

Scott Feller, Cortina 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday
Sep022011

Rational and innovative times: JDSU's CTO Q&A Part II

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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