An industry observer might ask a Nokia executive about its plans for 400G and there is a good chance that the response is more likely…
Category: Systems
If Verizon Has Vague Rationale, Think FCC
For Verizon, there has been the matter of a tremendous buildout of Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) infrastructure in the past, which was clearly cost prohibitive, or more…
Acacia Will Likely Push 400G DSP
The message that the Street may be going way overboard with Acacia Communications’ valuation, let alone its new secondary offering, may be beginning to resonate.…
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…
Infinera’s Biggest Concern is Ciena
A commonly heard phrase over the years has been that nobody gets fired for buying from Cisco Systems. When it comes to optical networking products,…
CenturyLink Could be a Sleeper
When a typical industry observer thought of CenturyLink over the past several years, the following aspects probably came to mind: only a handful of major…
Submarine Festoons Needed in US
Although undersea festoon networks can be found in many parts of the world, one would be hard-pressed to locate a single case in the States.…
Xtera’s New CFO May be Its Only Hope
Joe Chinnici was unceremoniously let go by Ciena, as the ex-Nortel executives at the company evidently advocated replacing him. In complying to the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements,…
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…
Metro 100G “Heresy”
In a 2015 post discussing an OFC presentation of a well-known engineer in the business, titled “ROADMs Instead of Metro 100G Systems?”, the response from…
