Alcatel-Lucent’s research arm, Bell Labs, has used high-speed electronics to enable Terabit long-haul transmission using two optical carriers only. Several vendors have already demonstrated Terabit transmission including Alcatel-Lucent, but the company is claiming an industry first in using two multiplexed carriers only. “There is a tradeoff between the speed of electronics and the number […]
The Dell’Oro Group forecasts that the global optical transport market will grow to $13 billion (€9.6 billion) in 2017, equating to a 10-percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). In 2012 SONET/SDH sales declined by over 20 percent, greater than Dell’Oro expected, while WDM equipment sales held their own. Dell’Oro expects optical transport growth across […]
EZchip Semiconductor has announced a class of network processor capable of performing traditional data plane processing as well as higher layer networking tasks. “It [the device family] is designed to provide processing for all the networking layers, from layer two all the way to layer seven,” said Amir Eyal, EZChip’s vice president of […]
Accelink Technologies has acquired the Danish planar lightwave circuit (PLC) company, Ignis Photonyx A/S. The Chinese optical component player has paid US$ 2.6 million (€2.0 million) for the company, which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary. Accelink has also agreed to spend US$ 5.4 million (€4.2 million) to upgrade facilities and contribute to the […]
ECI Telecom has announced a new family of packet transport platforms for the metro. The Native Packet Transport (NPT) platforms aims to reduce the cost of operating packet networks while supporting traditional TDM traffic. “Building carrier-grade packet transport is proving more costly than anticipated,” said Gil Epshtein, product market manager at ECI Telecom. […]
Avago Technologies has unveiled its first family of active optical cables. The company has also developed an optical module for use in the active optical cables (AOCs). The new Atlas 75x optical engine reduces the power consumption and the cost, enabling the AOC to better compete with traditional direct-attach copper cables. The AOC […]
In recent months Cisco Systems has been talking about its upcoming proprietary 100G optical module, dubbed CPAK. The development is expected to reduce the market opportunity for the CFP2 multi-source agreement (MSA) and has caused disquiet in the industry. “The CFP2 has been a bit slow – the MSA has taken longer than […]
Infinera is claiming an industry first with the software-enablement of 100G capacity increments. The company has added features to its DTN-X platform that shortens the time to add new capacity in the network from weeks, as is common today, to less than a day.Infinera has developed a DWDM line card that features its […]
MultiPhy has given early details of its 100Gbps coherent chip for metro networks, with samples expected in 2013. The company says it is seeing a market requirement for coherent technology’s deployment in the metro. “Everyone expects to see it [coherent metro] in the next two to three years,” said Avi Shabtai, CEO of […]
Teraxion has adopted silicon photonics technology for its latest compact 40- and 100-Gbps coherent receivers. The Canadian optical component company, better known for its fibre Bragg gratings and tunable dispersion compensation products, has spent the last three years developing expertise in silicon photonics. At the recent ECOC exhibition it announced its first products based […]
JDSU will soon bring to market its tunable SFP+ pluggable module, and has already delivered to equipment makers samples of the compact tunable laser design. The company, which demonstrated the tunable SFP+ at the recent ECOC exhibition, has not given a date when it will start production. “It won’t be long,” said Brandon Collings, […]