Ciena Posts Revenue of $433 Million, Trims Q2 Outlook

Ciena reported revenue of $433.3 million for its Q1 of fiscal 2011, representing a 4% sequential increase from fiscal fourth quarter 2010 revenue of $417.6 million. Ciena's net loss (GAAP) for the quarter was $(79.1) million, or $(0.84) per common share, which compares to a GAAP net loss of $(53.3) million, or $(0.58) per common share, for the fiscal first quarter of 2010. The fiscal first quarter 2011 included $24.2 million in acquisition and integration-related costs associated with Ciena's acquisition of assets of the Metro Ethernet Networks...

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comScore: U.S. Mobile Market Snapshot

Smartphone penetration is rising rapidly in the U.S. market, according to newly released data from the comScore MobiLens service. A total of 65.8 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in January 2011, up 8 percent from the preceding three-month period. Google Android captured the #1 ranking among smartphone platforms for the first time in January with 31.2 percent market share. RIM ranked second with 30.4 percent...

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Xilinx Offer 100G OTN Kit, Road Map to 400G

Xilinx introduced its Virtex-6 HXT FPGA Optical Transport Network (OTN) Targeted Design Platform for supporting faster market implementation of 100G line cards and demonstrating the key technology for a smooth path to the development of future 400G line cards. System architects can use the OTN platform to demonstrate and evaluate the flexibility, high-end performance and integration capabilities of Xilinx FPGAs for 100G OTN applications. They can...

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NSN Teams with Skorpios on Silicon Photonics R&S

Skorpios Technologies, a start-up based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has signed Nokia Siemens Networks as a strategic development partner.Skorpios Technologies has developed an advanced Composite Semiconductor on Insulator Technology promising lower cost, reduced size, and decreased power dissipation compared to traditional technology approaches. The technology allows the generation, detection and modulation of light to be monolithically integrated with high-speed electronic circuits in a standard CMOS-compatible process known as Composite-Semiconductor...

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Applied Micro Sees Inflection Point in OTN Market

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. has shipped 1 million 10G Optical Transport Network (OTN) ports and the company believes the technology has reached an inflection point for the industry. Shipments of AppliedMicro System-on-Chip ports to manufacturers of optical switch and routing equipment has risen by more than 50 percent over the last two years."OTN market adoption has reached a critical tipping point since it was first proposed a decade ago as a replacement...

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PMC-Sierra Pushes Ahead with 10G-EPON in 40nm

PMC-Sierra expanded its FTTH portfolio with a new line of 10G-EPON OLT devices in 40nm featuring traffic management, packet processing, on-chip redundancy and advanced optical diagnostic capabilities built-in. PMC-Sierra also introduced three new EPON devices for low-cost, low-power ONUs. PMC-Sierra's 10G-EPON OLT family, which complies with IEEE 802.3av specifications and China carrier specifications for both asymmetric and symmetric 10G-EPON modes,...

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Huawei Introduces Next-Gen Metro and Core OTN Systems

Huawei introduced its OSN8800 T Series next-generation metro and core Optical Transport Network system for the North American market. This new transport system integrates WDM/OTN transmission, ROADM, T-bit switch, ASON/GMPLS, 40G/100G, and OAM capabilities. The OSN8800 T Series achieves 40G/100G transport and offers full-service cross-connect capabilities that support ODUk (Optical Data Unit), wavelength and packet switching, offering more flexibility...

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Huawei Eyes Optical Burst Switching

Huawei announced an Optical Burst Transport Network (OBTN) prototype. Huawei said its OBTN all-optical switching technology will enable the convergence of Layer 0 (optical layer), Layer 1 (electrical physical layer) and Layer 2 (link layer), marking an important step toward all-optical networking.The idea is to attach optical control labels to each optical packet, thereby enabling sub-wavelength add/drop is realized based on all-optical processing....

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Oclaro Announces 40G PM-QPSK Coherent Transponder

Oclaro introduced its third generation 40G PM-QPSK transponder featuring an integrated modulator, receiver and the industry's first single-chip ASIC solution for enabling coherent detection. Oclaro said PM-QPSK modulation, coupled with coherent detection and digital signal processing, provides a cost-effective way for optical signals to reach longer distances with compensation for large amounts of optical impairments such as chromatic dispersion...

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Altera Shows 100G Enhanced Forward Error Correction

Altera introduced enhanced forward error correction (EFEC) IP cores optimized for its high performance Stratix IV and Stratix V series FPGAs and specifically designed for 100G applications such as metro and long-haul optical transport networks (OTN).The ulti-dimensional IP cores were developed by Altera's Newfoundland Technology Centre (formerly Avalon Microelectronics). "With the combined forecast of the 10G, 40G, and 100G transceiver and transponder market expected to grow to over $2 billion worldwide in 2014, we are well positioned to provide...

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Vitesse Debuts OTN Mappers with 1588v2 and ITU Y.1731 Packet Timing

Vitesse Semiconductor introduced a multi-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Optical Transport Network (OTN) mapper family (VSC8492 and VSC8494) that supports both IEEE 1588v2 and Y.1731 time stamping. This enables timing, synchronization and real time performance monitoring over a packet transport network. The new mappers enable 10GE Universal PHY Interfaces (UPI), including 10GE LAN/WAN, SAN, SONET/SDH and OTN. When used in conjunction with Vitesse's...

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Luxtera Debuts is CMOS Optical Engine

Luxtera announced a strategic transition from the Active Optical Cable (AOC) business to the semiconductor component business model. The company is introducing its first optical engine chipset supporting InfiniBand, Ethernet, SAS and Fibre Channel connectivity. Luxtera's optical engine chip-set consist of a CMOS opto-electronic transceiver chip and a companion photonic power source. It supports four fully-integrated 14 Gbps opto-electronic transceiver channels on a single CMOS chip. Luxtera's LUX2020A optical engine will be incorporated into the...

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Broadcom Implements MACsec in latest Quad 10GbE SFP+ PHY

Broadcom's latest 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) physical layer (PHY) transceiver includes support for the IEEE 802.1AE media access controller (MAC) security standard (known as MACsec) – a specification designed to safeguard connectionless data security, integrity and confidentiality for independent MAC protocols traveling between PC users and network servers and printers. The new Broadcom BCM84756 40nm CMOS Quad SFI-XFI10GbE transceiver is the industry's...

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