Friday, March 1, 2013

OFC/NFOEC Booth Tour: Calient Technologies

CALIENT Technologies introduced a new 320-port photonic switch designed for data center applications. The new switch leverages the company's patented 3D microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switching technology, can be used to create a scalable, flexible, switched network fabric, with total throughput of 3.2 TB that connects top-of-rack switches and core routers.  CALIENT’s enabling technology is a three-dimensional array of silicon micro mirrors that are used to switch up to 320 incoming fiber optic signals from any port to any output...