Mellanox to acquire silicon photonics player Kotura
Mellanox Technologies has announced its intention to acquire silicon photonics player, Kotura for $82 million.
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Mellanox Technologies has announced its intention to acquire silicon photonics player, Kotura for $82 million.
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
Avago Technologies has unveiled its first family of active optical cables for use in the data centre and for high performance computing.
The company has developed an optical module for use in the active optical cables (AOCs). Known as the Atlas 75x, the optical engine reduces the power consumption and cost of the AOC to better compete with direct-attach copper cables.
“Some 99 percent of [active optical cable] applications are 20m or less”
Sharon Hall, Avago
Gazettabyte completes its summary of key optical announcements at the recent ECOC show held in Amsterdam. In Part 2, Finisar's announcements are detailed.
Part 2
"The general thought with system vendors is that the more they can shrink the in-line equipment into a fewer number of slots, the more slots they have open and available for revenue-generating transceiver and transponder cards"
Rafik Ward, Finisar
Gazettabyte completes its summary of key optical announcements at the recent ECOC show held in Amsterdam. Oclaro's announcements detailed here are followed by those of Finisar and NeoPhotonics.
Part 1: Oclaro
"Networks are getting more complex and you need automation so that they are more foolproof and more efficient operationally"
Per Hansen, Oclaro
The latest options for 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) interfaces are beginning to take shape following a meeting of the IEEE 802.3 Next Generation 100Gb/s Optical Ethernet Study Group.