While for now, Avago Technologies will be preoccupied with the immense and time-consuming effort of its integration process with Broadcom, not too long afterwards, it…
Category: Metro
Optical Line Interoperability Illusion
Although Microsoft and others have been discussing the notion of an Open Line System (OLS) to provide standardization with long-haul and metro equipment, there is…
Fujitsu as Metro 100G Barometer in US
The arrangement that US-based Fujitsu Network Communications (FNC) has with Fujitsu Limited is extremely unique in the optical industry given the extraordinary amount of independence…
Infinera Needs Dose of Humility Such as With Metro
Despite its long-term survival being a question mark only a few years ago as principally a long-haul player, Infinera fancies itself as now being positioned…
Nokia/AlcaLu Optical: Mixed Bag at Best
While an alternate universe continues to exist regarding discussion over radical changes and transformations occurring in the datacom/telecom realm, the number of genuinely major new…
Google’s Fiber: Laugh All the Way to Bank
The contest by Alphabet’s Google itself among the cities in 2010 was a brilliant stroke of genius in that it cost the company practically nothing,…
AT&T’s “Open ROADM”: More Skepticism
In defiance of AT&T’s uniquely leviathan network involving layers of infrastructure built over many years, the service provider continues to promote further leading-edge concepts that…
Microsoft’s Enduring Google Envy
Quite a few articles have been written over time about the jealousy suffered by Microsoft over Alphabet’s Google, but they have not really addressed that…
Lumentum: Be Careful What You Wish For
Who could blame Lumentum Holdings for finding it desirable to move upstream in offering something close to full optical systems in order to generate higher…
Will Cisco Systems Rule DCI Market?
When Cisco Systems recently published the specifications of its Network Convergence System 1002 (NCS 1002), it theoretically could be called a Data Center Interconnection (DCI)…
