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…
Category: Optical Fiber
Lumentum: Reorganizations Toward 3D Sensing Paradigm
A recent, unpublicized, corporate-wide reorganization by Lumentum Holdings might look like an admission of the company’s inability and/or unwillingness to efficiently run its internal factories…
24 Tough Queries for Vendors/Users at ECOC 2018
Unfortunately, this writer will be unable to be in Rome, as I will be attending a much happier, personal event later in the week. fibeReality…
OFC 2019: Nine Additional Odds and Ends
Before getting to the subject of this article, I need to point out the most significant and outstanding event at OFC: Mitch Fields at the…
Additional Upshots at Dublin Optics Show
As a complementary piece to our last article, “Throwing Down the Gauntlet at ECOC 2019,” we provide some other final thoughts on the conference, including…
Finisar Getting a Raw Deal with Silicon Photonics
When it comes to technology development, some of the leading analysts in the financial community have a tendency to blindly follow a template of conventional…
Bullish on 850nm VCSELs; Avago Selling VCSEL Components
As we will demonstrate on an OFC 2015 panel, the data center VCSEL market will remain healthy for an extremely long time, especially in terms…
Another Savior of Data Center MM Fiber?
In addition to the development of longer-distance and higher-speed VCSELs, there is a possibility that in the long term, polymer waveguide material embedded in electronics…
Optical Hardware Innovation Permanently
At the OFC 2015 show next month, the Rump Session is entitled, “Is it ‘Game Over’ for Hardware?” The discussion will be about “[s]ome industry trends…
Optical PAM-4 Restricted to 500 Meters?
Our company is always inclined to look towards historical precedent for guidance, and electronics have continually been leveraged throughout the years to bail out optics,…