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Category: Passive Devices
Silicon Photonics: Widespread Usage on Active Components Doubtful
While the amount of industry chatter about silicon photonics rose substantially in 2014, partially because of certain market research firms looking to sell more reports,…
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…
Submarine Festoons Needed in US
Although undersea festoon networks can be found in many parts of the world, one would be hard-pressed to locate a single case in the States.…
Google Fiber Fizzles as Predicted
In March, we posted an article called “Google’s Fiber: Laugh All the Way to Bank,” in which we stated: “While [Alphabet’s] Google has made a…
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…
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,”…
Google’s Fiber: Laugh All the Way to Bank
The contest by Alphabet’s Google itself among the cities in 2010 was a brilliant stroke of genius in that it cost the company practically nothing,…
Finisar: De Facto Owner of VCSEL Space?
Given that we have learned that Avago Technologies intends to keep only the VCSEL chip fab (in March, we were the first news source to…
Xtera IPO an Act of Desperation?
Apparently, Xtera Communications’ desire to exit the optical business can no longer be characterized at all as graceful, but as somewhat frantic. There had been…
