Despite the evident busting of the optical ecosystem, many of the analysts on the Street apparently continue to hold a special place in their hearts…
Category: High-Speed Transport
Finisar: New VCSEL Opportunities Possible
In June, this writer was honored to be a keynote speaker at EPIC’s meeting on “Singlemode vs Multimode Communication” in Kessel-Lo, Belgium. Our preliminary judgement…
Silicon Photonics: Last Gasp of Hype
The optics industry is approaching 50 years since the concept of Silicon Photonics (SiPh) was mentioned for the first time. During an upsurge in excitement…
Facebook: Co-Packaged Optics Conundrum
While we have recently pointed out that co-packaged optics will not be the great enabler of Silicon Photonics (SiPh), the concept of markedly shortening the…
Lumentum 3DS at Apple: A Competitive Analysis
Right now, it seems that Lumentum’s primary challengers for VCSELs for 3D Sensing (3DS) applications for use in Apple’s iPhones will probably remain both Finisar…
Co-Packaged Optics on Trial
Recently, fibeReality has written about the latest catchphrase in the optics space, co-packaged optics, and mentioned the potential challenges with expense and yield, as well…
400GbE: Wakeup Call for Hyperscale Operators
When it comes to the critical development efforts for 400GbE, the big-four hyperscale data center operators do not appear to be doing much more than…
Broadcom’s Tomahawk 3: An Optics Riddle
There is a mystery concerning stranded capacity as Broadcom’s StrataXGS Tomahawk 3 next-gen switching chipset offers quite a bit of bandwidth with a total capacity…
The Case for 4×50-Gig Indeterminately
While fibeReality is willing to double down on our wakeup call to the hyperscale data center operators on the need for them to help reconstruct…
Multicore Fiber: Just a Cool Design for Now
Research on MultiCore Fiber (MCF) was first conducted almost four decades ago. It is definitely a real and a cool technology, and a user could…
