Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) is a serious risk to the well-being of the photonics industry, which can ill-afford the expenditure of such valuable resources. The concept…
Category: Cables
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…
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…
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.…
100G PSM4 Pricing at $2/Gig and Lower
At the Rump Session at OFC 2017, the topic for debate will be “Sub $0.25/Gbps Optics; How and When will Fiber Finally Kill Copper Cable…
Higher Stakes with Web 2.0 Undersea Apps
One of the most interesting discussions at the OIDA Executive Forum Program will be the panel on “Internet Content Providers Building Out Undersea Networks –…
Mellanox: Dreadful Timing on “SiPh” Halt
The day after it became public that Mellanox Technologies’ biggest shareholder, Starboard Value, sent a letter along with slides to the CEO and the Board…
Finisar: An Attack Plan vs Broadcom
Will Finisar engage in all of this development work on VCSEL bare die in its new fab in Texas just to take advantage of it…
Broadcom’s Tomahawk 3: An Optics Riddle
There is a mystery concerning stranded capacity as Broadcom’s StrataXGS Tomahawk 3 next-gen switching chipset offers quite a bit of bandwidth with a total capacity…
Multicore Fiber: Just a Cool Design for Now
Research on MultiCore Fiber (MCF) was first conducted almost four decades ago. It is definitely a real and a cool technology, and a user could…