While fibeReality is unaware of the exact date of when Chuck Mattera, the CEO, of II-VI, negated the proposal to buy out Finisar’s IC group,…
Category: Transceivers
Broadcom: Selective Focus on Transceivers
As fibeReality pointed out in a recent article, the counseling from Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom, to his former executive on the wireless side of…
II-VI’s Gloomy Look Under Finisar’s Hood
In fibeReality’s opinion, irrespective of II-VI leadership’s original plans with its big merger, figuring out what to do with the mess that was left by…
Tibit: Last “Telecom Valley” Optic Hurrah
Over the years, nobody can deny that some of the most prominent “Petaluma Telecom Valley” entrepreneurs/engineers were courageous in taking on the huge, technological challenges,…
ADVA: Ottawa Connection and Endgame
To the best of our knowledge, fibeReality has been the sole source in the world to continue to report on the substantial laboratory, the Germany-based…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
On Cisco’s Rationalization for Luxtera Buy
At the OFC 2019 Media/Analyst Luncheon – “Hot Topics in Data Center Optics: Emerging Standards/MSAs, Silicon Photonics, 400G and Beyond,” Bill Gartner, Vice President/GM Optical…
