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Category: Systems
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…
Juniper’s SiPh: Reductio ad Absurdum
Now Juniper Networks has joined Intel and Cisco Systems in offering 100G data communications transceivers (TXs), in which margins are awfully tough, if not unfeasible…
Infinera: Plausibility for Cautious Optimism
After so many years of a stubborn, false narrative that its PICs provided a true-cost advantage, without acknowledging their technological drawbacks, including that their optimal…
Ciena: The “Blue Planet” Metamorphosis
A few years ago, fibeReality wrote: “We believe that historically, [Ciena] has had a penchant for readily transitioning to the strategies and philosophies of executives,…
SDN: Prolongation of Past Panacea Parade
Although SDN proponents are most known for advocating separate Control (C) and Data (D) planes as an abstraction layer, and some have referred to it…
Rockley Headship Legacy: SiPh Hangover
Rockley Photonics’ founder and CEO, Andrew Rickman, could never seem to escape dealing with Silicon Photonics (SiPh) throughout his ventures over the years, paradoxically, representing…
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,…
Cisco/Acacia: Influence of Group Denial
Although Acacia Communications was at the optimal point to exit the DSP merchant space, the split second after the announcement of the Cisco Systems takeover,…
Infinera’s “Tellabsation”: Back to the Future
Regular followers of fibeReality’s separate, quick-update blog were able to read our latest take on Infinera, as we stated: “We view the messaging [on its…
