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…
Category: Backbone
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…
Finisar CEO’s Babe-in-the-Woods Rhetoric
In an article published this month, Finisar’s CEO, Michael Hurlston said: “To be truthful, I didn’t know much about optics.” Certainly, by now, such a…
COBO’s Scheme: Odd Life/Demise Likely
fibeReality expressed our point of view that if COBO ever happens, it would be in the form of Co-Packaged Optics (CPO). In our opinion, it…
Ciena/Packet Design: First-Rate Acquisition
While Ciena’s historic record for acquiring companies has left a lot to be desired, its most recent buyout of Packet Design was a shrewd move.…
Microsoft’s Flatter Data Center Difficulty
Despite the greater efficiency of the newer networks of the hyperscalers, as their infrastructure continues to grow in size, they will gradually start grappling with…
Inphi’s COLORZ: New Buyer Constrictions
Although Microsoft’s major push to try to create a market for Inphi’s COLORZ solution was memorable, it was unsuccessful, as the former has remained the…
AOCs: Unappealing Choice Up to 30 Meters
Assuming Microsoft goes ahead with a proposed project of a flattened switch architecture in its data centers, the use of Active Optical Cables (AOCs) for…
Finisar Could be Telegraphing 5G Fronthaul Gear
fibeReality is aware of some speculation that Finisar’s CEO, Michael Hurlston, was supposedly brought in to build up the 3D-sensing business in order to sell…
