We have been told that there is going to be a worldwide shortage of 25G lasers in the coming two years, supposedly due to not…
Category: Services
Videoconferencing: The Elusive Business Application
Although it was 50 years ago that AT&T introduced the Picturephone at the World’s Fair, the company is still striving to “encourage the adoption of…
Big Need for MPLS-TP?
At the service providers across the globe, the most widespread and native selection is MPLS and not MPLS-TP. The former has broader acceptance, superior interoperability,…
Convoluted 20/80 Rule in Data Center Optics
Actually, it is probably a lot closer to a 90/10 relationship in which there is unbelievable amount of attention given to high-end optical development spurred…
Top 10 Enigmas at Infinera’s Analyst Day
Our initial thoughts on Insight Infinera 2016, as outlined on our LinkedIn fibeReality page over a week ago, was partially that “time will unlikely be…
More 400G Insanity at ECOC
At the recent ECOC Exhibition 2015, there was the continuation of the prevailing optical industry’s preposterous, public narrative that the deployment of 400G is within…
Avago’s Spinoff of Optics in Short Term?
While for now, Avago Technologies will be preoccupied with the immense and time-consuming effort of its integration process with Broadcom, not too long afterwards, it…
Mellanox’s Messaging Resonance Not Key to Success
Mellanox Technologies is a typical Israeli-based firm in the datacom/telecom space in that it excels at technology development, but not necessarily from a marketing/sales perspective.…
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…
Ciena Probably Overpaying for Cyan
A prima facie case can be made that the $400 million price tag on Cyan is out of line. In effect, Ciena should have problems…
