We have been pondering the question of what happens when emerging optical component vendors, being financed by mega-data center operators to achieve the lowest cost…
Category: Backbone
BT Victim of Revisionist “All-IP” History
With neighboring service providers, Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Orange recently announcing aggressive schedules to migrate their networks completely to the Internet Protocol (IP), British Telecom…
IBM Dimming Silicon Photonics Hype Level
Although the hoopla over silicon photonics (SP) has not been as pronounced at IBM as at Intel, including consistent involvement by technologists at the highest…
Mellanox’s Messaging Resonance Not Key to Success
Mellanox Technologies is a typical Israeli-based firm in the datacom/telecom space in that it excels at technology development, but not necessarily from a marketing/sales perspective.…
Google’s Surrender to Extreme Environmentalist Pressure – Hit to Optics
When it comes to defending its overwhelmingly dominant position on the Internet or in extracting the very last penny in its network cost, Google will…
Ciena’s Last Chance to Fulfill Its Destiny
Ciena beat the overwhelming odds as a startup in the 1990s to become the most dominant optical system vendor in the global telecom space. However,…
Microsoft’s Network: Hitches with Quasi-Carrier Mindset
Microsoft has been caught in the undesirable middle with its Data Center (DC) infrastructure between striving to innovate with the lowest cost, state-of-the-art optical solutions…
Avago’s Spinoff of Optics in Short Term?
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…
Inphi a Threat to InnoLight or Kaiam?
Once again, we have a natural affinity for the proposition of taking advantage of electronics, such as higher order modulation, to better enable optics by…
ADVA Should Look at Buying Xtera
ADVA Optical Networking’s CEO mentioned that it “is considering a ‘larger deal [than the Time4 Systems purchase] more in the mid-term’ that could give it…
