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,…
Category: Systems
Microsoft’s Network: Hitches with Quasi-Carrier Mindset
Microsoft has been caught in the undesirable middle with its Data Center (DC) infrastructure between striving to innovate with the lowest cost, state-of-the-art optical solutions…
Inphi a Threat to InnoLight or Kaiam?
Once again, we have a natural affinity for the proposition of taking advantage of electronics, such as higher order modulation, to better enable optics by…
ADVA Should Look at Buying Xtera
ADVA Optical Networking’s CEO mentioned that it “is considering a ‘larger deal [than the Time4 Systems purchase] more in the mid-term’ that could give it…
Optical Line Interoperability Illusion
Although Microsoft and others have been discussing the notion of an Open Line System (OLS) to provide standardization with long-haul and metro equipment, there is…
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…
Fujitsu as Metro 100G Barometer in US
The arrangement that US-based Fujitsu Network Communications (FNC) has with Fujitsu Limited is extremely unique in the optical industry given the extraordinary amount of independence…
Xtera IPO an Act of Desperation?
Apparently, Xtera Communications’ desire to exit the optical business can no longer be characterized at all as graceful, but as somewhat frantic. There had been…
Finisar: De Facto Owner of VCSEL Space?
Given that we have learned that Avago Technologies intends to keep only the VCSEL chip fab (in March, we were the first news source to…
Reactions to Ciena Based on Elusive Credibility Factor?
A recent blog article on Light Reading gets into whether the initial backlash on the Street against Ciena was justified based on the past quarterly…
