fibeReality has recently expressed its point of view that the II-VI-Finisar merger only really seems to makes sense in the context of Apple’s understandable concern…
Category: Chips
Lumentum: Six-Inch VCSEL Retrospective
In view of fibeReality’s latest analyses which demonstrate the essential role that VCSEL wafers are planned to play in future product designs of all kinds…
3DS VCSEL Race to the Bottom/Potpourri
Even as engineering capital and talent are being pulled out of the traditional optical transceiver space (once more, it is difficult to blame these vendors…
ADVA: Next Optics Dynamo in NA
The combination of the apparent penetration of ADVA Optical Networking into the incumbent ISP transport gear marketplace, along with the anticipation of the number of…
Lumentum Owns Basis of Oclaro Takedown
At OFC 2019, Lumentum Holdings finally acknowledged the principal rationale for purchasing Oclaro, by announcing the divestiture of the data communications transceiver (TX) product line…
OFC 2019: Nine Additional Odds and Ends
Before getting to the subject of this article, I need to point out the most significant and outstanding event at OFC: Mitch Fields at the…
Juniper’s SiPh: Reductio ad Absurdum
Now Juniper Networks has joined Intel and Cisco Systems in offering 100G data communications transceivers (TXs), in which margins are awfully tough, if not unfeasible…
Rockley Headship Legacy: SiPh Hangover
Rockley Photonics’ founder and CEO, Andrew Rickman, could never seem to escape dealing with Silicon Photonics (SiPh) throughout his ventures over the years, paradoxically, representing…
MACOM: Volte-Face Analogous to Infinera
There are striking similarities between MACOM Technologies Solutions and Infinera – not only regarding the most obvious characteristic that they have likely, more or less,…
400GbE Modules: Forecasting 2025 vs 2020
What exactly is a “real” client-side 400G device? We can certainly count on many marketing folks, and just about all research firms to define it…
