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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 12:47PM * Cisco adds the CPAK transceiver to its mix of 100 Gigabit coherent and elastic core technologies
* Announces 100 Gigabit transmission over 4,800km
"CPAK helps accelerate the feasibility and cost points of deploying 100Gbps"
Stephen Liu, Cisco
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 8:13AM System vendors continue to trumpet their achievements in long-haul optical transmission speeds and overall data carried over fibre.
Alcatel-Lucent announced earlier this month that France Telecom-Orange is using the industry's first 400 Gigabit link, connecting Paris and Lyon, while Infinera has detailed a trial demonstrating 8 Terabit-per-second (Tbps) of capacity over 1,175km and using 500 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) super-channels.
"Integration always comes at the cost of crosstalk"
Peter Winzer, Bell Labs
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 11:07AM Infinera has enabled its DTN-X platform to deliver rapidly 100 Gigabit services. The ability to fulfill capacity demand quickly is seen as a competitive advantage by operators. Gazettabyte spoke with Infinera and TeliaSonera International Carrier, a DTN-X customer, about the merits of its 'instant bandwidth' and asked several industry analysts for their views.
Infinera has added a WDM line card hosting its 500 Gigabit super-channel photonic integrated circuit to its DTN-X platform
Pravin Mahajan, Infinera.
Friday, August 31, 2012 at 8:08AM 
Relative traffic increase normalised to 2010 Source: IEEE
Optical component and system vendors will be increasingly challenged to meet the expected growth in bandwidth demand.
According to a recent comprehensive study by the IEEE (The IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment report), bandwidth requirements are set to grow 10x by 2015 compared to demand in 2010, and a further 10x between 2015 and 2020. Meanwhile, the technical challenges are growing for the vendors developing optical transmission equipment and short-reach high-speed optical interfaces.
Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 6:37PM Feature: Beyond 100G - Part 4
The latest coherent ASICs from Ciena and Alcatel-Lucent coupled with announcements from Cisco and Huawei highlight where the industry is heading with regard high-speed optical transport. But the announcements also raise questions too.
Source: Gazettabyte
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 3:37PM In recent years the industry has moved from direct detection to coherent transmission and has alighted on a flexible ROADM architecture. The result is a new level in optical networking sophistication. OFC/NFOEC 2012 will showcase the progress in these and other areas of industry consensus as well as shining a spotlight on issues less clear.
Optical component players may be forgiven for the odd envious glance towards the semiconductor industry and its well-defined industry dynamics.
