In June, this writer was honored to be a keynote speaker at EPIC’s meeting on “Singlemode vs Multimode Communication” in Kessel-Lo, Belgium. Our preliminary judgement…
Category: PAM-4
Finisar/Oclaro: Nearsighted Beyond 4x50G
As with fibeReality, both Finisar and Oclaro have problems foreseeing 400GbE in any meaningful way in the anticipatable time ahead. While each is more than…
Inphi’s 100G DSP: Another Blow to Acacia
As usual, when a vendor, such as Inphi, makes a series of announcements on products or on R&D direction, the bulk of the attention is…
MACOM and Fabrinet: Sound of Silence
On our daily market perspectives page, we have been discussing the mystery surrounding the lack of discussion on Amazon at public events involving MACOM Technology…
$2B AOI Cap Worse Than Old $3B Acacia
While we would find it impossible to ever recommend securities of any kind because of the irrational ups and downs of the prices, we have…
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…
Cisco and Marvell/Inphi: 400ZR as Microcosm for Future Strategies
When fibeReality published its report on 400ZR in June 2020, we were clearly on the low end of the forecasts in the industry. Nevertheless, as…
PAM4 vs NRZ: Growing Irrelevance of Standards Bodies
At the OFC 2021 Rump Session, there will be two sides debating the following propositions: “Did the Optics Industry Blunder by Switching Intra-Datacenter Links from…
OSFP-XD Takes the Stand
In August 2018, fibeReality published the article: “Co-Packaged Optics on Trial,” in which we offered this summary judgement: “It is not hard to see why…
