What's hot at OFC22? Integrated photonics/electronics

Think embedded optics, co-packaged optics (CPO), on-board optics -- building block technologies for the next generation of integrated photonics and electronics, says Brad Booth, President of the Consortium for On-board Optics (COBO) and Principal Network Architect at Microsoft.New connectivity solutions.&nb...

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What's hot at OFC22? Coherent Optical Engines

Think of the enormous optical capacity enabled by coherent optical engines, says Tim Doiron, Senior Director, Solution Marketing, Infine...

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What's hot at OFC22? Co-packaged optics and 400ZR

Co-packaged optics and 400ZR, says Josef Berger, Associate Vice President, Optical and Copper Connectivity Group, Marvell.It's all about the clo...

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What's hot at OFC22? 5G drives network upgrades

 5G and the resulting traffic surge is driving a wave of upgrades to metro and access networks, says Rich Colter, Head of Marketing, Fujitsu Network Communications. Here's a look at other major trends, including the supply chain issues.&nb...

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BT and Google Cloud form strategic partnership

Google Cloud and BT announced a strategic, five-year partnership to accelerate BT’s company-wide digital transformation. The collaboration will involve BT using a suite of Google Cloud products and services—including cloud infrastructure, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, security, and API management—to deliver superior customer experiences, reduce costs and risk, and build new revenue streams. The companies...

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AT&T adds symmetrical 2-Gig and 5-Gig speed tiers

AT&T Fiber announced symmetrical 2-Gig and 5-Gig speed tiers to residential and business customers across its curreent fiber footprint.  And this is just the beginning: AT&T will continue bringing multi-gig-capable technology across our current fiber footprint, which spans nearly 5.2 million customer locations in parts of more than 70 metro areas. AT&T Fiber 2 GIG: $110/month + taxes; AT&T Business Fiber 2 GIG: $225/month...

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Lumenisity unveils Hollow Core Double Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fiber

Lumenisity Limited, a start-up based in Romsey, United Kingdom, announced a new generation of hollowcore fibre with the lowest attenuation of any hollowcore fibre reported to date. The company says its new product surpasses the attenuation of conventional germanium-doped single-mode fibre (SMF) in the O and C bands. Specifically, Lumenisity’s new Hollow Core Double Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fiber (DNANF) achieves attenuations of <0.22...

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Pilot Photonics develops 1.6T optical engine using comb source

Pilot Photonics unveiled its SuperTROSA, a coherent optical engine that uses optical comb technology to deliver a Superchannel. The technology aims to enable high capacity, high spectral efficiency optical links.Optical comb sources are lasers that produce multiple coherent wavelengths of light from a single device. “By using a comb source, rather than independent lasers to create a superchannel, the coherence of the wavelengths can be used...

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NeoPhotonics milestone: 1 million single and quad drivers for PAM4

 NeoPhotonics announced a significant milestone: the company has shipped more than one million single and quad drivers for PAM4 transceivers used in hyperscale data center networks.  “We are pleased to have achieved multiple design wins for our family of 53 Gbaud suite of drivers and are now shipping them in high volume.  We have been shipping GaAs drivers for nearly a decade and have a deep technology base.  We started with 10...

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Dell'Oro: Data center switch sales hit record levels

Global data center switch revenue posted double-digit growth for the second consecutive quarter, boosting sales to record levels in the fourth quarter and the full year 2021. 400 Gbps ports more than doubled in 2021, with sales comprising 10 percent of the market, according to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group.“In line with our expectations, the data center switch market continues to record a remarkable performance despite a macro-economic...

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Dell’Oro: Strong moment for Ethernet Adapters and Smart NICs

The Ethernet controller and adapter market reached an all-time high of $935 million in 4Q 2021, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. It is anticipated that Smart NICs will help propel the market to 19 percent revenue growth in 2022.“The Ethernet controller and adapter market maintained strong momentum for the third consecutive quarter of record revenue,” said Baron Fung, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group. “Revenue growth was attributed...

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Dell'Oro: Data Center CAPEX continues to rise

Most of the major cloud service providers will undergo an expansion cycle this year, which would lift worldwide data center capex by double-digits in 2022, according to a recently published report from Dell'Oro Group. However, persistent supply chain constraints could limit growth.“In 2021, worldwide data center capex grew nine percent and surpassed $200 billion for the first time,” said Baron Fung, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group. “However,...

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Intelsat names David Wajsgras as CEO

Intelsat named David Wajsgras as its next chief executive officer (CEO), replacing Stephen Spengler, who announced his planned retirement in Oct. 2021.Wajsgras most recently served as president of the global, $7.5-billion, advanced-technology Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS) business at the former Raytheon Company, now part of Raytheon Technologies. Before joining Raytheon as chief financial officer, Wajsgras was executive vice president...

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Megaport names Jim Brinksma as CTO

Megaport named Jim Brinksma asChief Technology Officer. Most recently, Brinksma was the Co-founder and CTO of InnovoEdge, which was acquired by Megaport in 2021. Prior to joining Megaport, Jim held technology leadership roles at Ciena BluePlanet and Goldman Sachs. He also served more than seven years in the United States Navy and has a doctorate from University of Maryland.“We are excited to bring Jim’s deep technological expertise and leadership...

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SambaNova expands its exec team

SambaNova Systems, a start-up developing a software, hardware, and solutions platform to run AI and Deep Learning applications, announces the appointment of Peter Buckingham as Vice President of Software Engineering. Buckingham has held leadership positions at VMware, Bitfusion, Sun Microsystems, Dell and Waypoint.“With AI, we are experiencing one of the biggest transitions in computing history since the internet and the transition is pushing...

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