Recently, fibeReality has written about the latest catchphrase in the optics space, co-packaged optics, and mentioned the potential challenges with expense and yield, as well…
Category: Power
Incredible Shrinking 3DS VCSEL Margins Projected
With eventually five or more six-inch VCSEL fab manufacturers playing in the worldwide 3D sensing space, the generation of impressive margins will get increasingly tougher,…
Finisar: New VCSEL Opportunities Possible
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…
Lumentum Overtaken by Finisar at Apple?
When it comes to 3D-sensors, both Lumentum Holdings and Finisar are being gutsy in striving to make a tremendous amount of penetration, not only away…
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…
Verizon’s 5G Fronthaul Fiber Sustainability
Proficient, long-time networking engineers and planners comprehend that designing architectures can be really tough, and they realize the main reason Verizon wants to do home-runs…
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…
Throwing Down the Gauntlet at ECOC 2019
On our second blog, it was mentioned that fibeReality tried to get formal confirmation on the coming death of COBO as well as challenged the…
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…
