At the OFC 2015 conference, one of the most highly respected network engineers in the business from Xtera Communications will be legitimately asking the question…
Category: Optical Switches
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…
Ciena’s Last Chance to Fulfill Its Destiny
Ciena beat the overwhelming odds as a startup in the 1990s to become the most dominant optical system vendor in the global telecom space. However,…
AT&T’s “Open ROADM”: More Skepticism
In defiance of AT&T’s uniquely leviathan network involving layers of infrastructure built over many years, the service provider continues to promote further leading-edge concepts that…
All-Optical Switches: Still Illusory?
Over 30 years ago, there began discussions in the industry about the development of an all-optical switch. Some of the comments sound familiar to those…
Huawei May Hit Optics Component Space with Both Barrels
fibeReality believes that Huawei Technologies is striving to develop coherent optics and optical switching components, as well as potentially other types of new devices further…
Ciena: The Street Taking a Fresh Look?
In addition to 1) the ex-Nortel crowd desiring to remain firmly ensconced in its controlling role over Ciena’s future, to 2) what we perceived as…
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…
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…
