A recent, unpublicized, corporate-wide reorganization by Lumentum Holdings might look like an admission of the company’s inability and/or unwillingness to efficiently run its internal factories…
Category: Wireless
PAM4 vs NRZ: Growing Irrelevance of Standards Bodies
At the OFC 2021 Rump Session, there will be two sides debating the following propositions: “Did the Optics Industry Blunder by Switching Intra-Datacenter Links from…
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…
Arris + CommScope = Another M&A Decoy
An industry observer is expected to believe that CommScope, which was on the record at Investor Day, several months before the announcement of the merger…
ADVA/ECI Merger? Hasty Knee-Jerk Effect
If a press account this past August was true that an ADVA Optical Networking-Coriant merger could not have been worked out, it may have been…
Additional Upshots at Dublin Optics Show
As a complementary piece to our last article, “Throwing Down the Gauntlet at ECOC 2019,” we provide some other final thoughts on the conference, including…
5G mmWave: Escaping “Plato’s Cave”
fibeReality has strived to demonstrate that Verizon Wireless’ reasoning behind its obsession with enabling mmWave spectrum has no other logical basis than to provide the…
Battling False Narratives on 5G
fibeReality has close to 5,000 followers on LinkedIn. It may be difficult to find other research firm specialists focussing on optics and wireless that can…
Would Nokia Sell AlcaLu’s Optical Landline Business?
A few years ago, Nokia decided to unload NSN’s optical networks division to focus more on the wireless sector. Now, with the proposed acquisition of…
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…