For the next generation of 100G coherent line interface form factor CFP2, will it be a split implementation — analog CFP2 and separate digital DSP…
Category: ASICs
Cisco: Buyer of Potential Finisar-JDSU Combo?
If Finisar purchases JDSU’s CCOP division, would a systems integrator be interested in buying the combination? Unquestionably, there have been rumors in the past that…
Intel’s Credibility Problem with Optics?
While the hype machine on the latest and greatest technology always reigns supreme in the fiber optics market, Intel appeared to take Silicon Photonics (SP)…
Ciena’s New Obsession with Vertical Integration
Ciena’s purchase of several assets from TeraXion represents the first time that the system player has acquired just components as opposed to full systems from…
Silicon Photonics’ Shift: Still Cost/Loss Issues
The lead article in the September 1969 issue of the Bell System Technical Journal was written by Stewart E. Miller, entitled “Integrated Optics: An Introduction,”…
Acacia’s Narrow Option Down Food Chain
For a while, we have been addressing the matter of what Acacia Communications can do for an encore with its DSP business. Despite Acacia introducing…
Will Xilinx Get Acquired?
Intel has owned Altera for almost a year and a half. Since that purchase, there has been continuous speculation that Xilinx, the other major FPGA…
Finisar: New Chip-Centric Frame of Mind
While Finisar’s selection of its new CEO, Michael Hurlston, pretty much an outsider from the optical realm (the only exception may be an executive position…
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…
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…