Over the last 15 years or so, a lot of great executive talent has left the telecom/datacom optical space either because they made a killing…
Category: Data Centers
SDN Crack-Up?
About a half of a decade after the announcement of the establishment of the Open Networking Foundation, a recent survey of over 3,000 customers internationally…
Verizon Comes to Senses With XO Fiber
Late in 2015, Verizon was apparently considering a terribly reckless action involving ridding itself of its invaluable enterprise properties. The purchase of XO’s assets definitely…
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,”…
Optics’ Elephant in Room: Global Economy
We have discussed in the past how macroeconomic conditions are often ignored in assessing the future prospects for the telecom/datacom optical market, such as the…
AT&T’s “Open ROADM”: More Skepticism
In defiance of AT&T’s uniquely leviathan network involving layers of infrastructure built over many years, the service provider continues to promote further leading-edge concepts that…
Microsoft’s Enduring Google Envy
Quite a few articles have been written over time about the jealousy suffered by Microsoft over Alphabet’s Google, but they have not really addressed that…
AIM Photonics Will Miss Target (Part I)
At “The Workshop on Integrated Photonics High Volume Packaging” that took place in Anaheim the week of OFC 2016, Thomas L. Koch, the Dean at…
100G Transceivers Below $3/Gig by 2017?
When giant data center owners started promoting $1 per gigabit transport a while back, the idea seemed ludicrous. Well, at least for optical transceivers, pricing…
Lumentum: Be Careful What You Wish For
Who could blame Lumentum Holdings for finding it desirable to move upstream in offering something close to full optical systems in order to generate higher…
