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Credo, a semiconductor company specializing in Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) technology, demonstrated its low power, high-performance 112 GbpsPAM4 SerDes technology at OFC 2018. For 112G per lambda optical connectivity (i.e., DR, DR4, FR4), Credo has delivered product solutions in TSMC 28nm. For 112G electrical VSR and LR reaches, Credo has delivered the solutions in TSMC 16nm. The […]
Zayo announced another contract to provide dark fiber to a global webscale customer on its Reno to Umatilla route, which is currently under development. The route will also be available for 100G wavelengths in addition to dark fiber once completed. The deal further supports Zayo’s investment in this route as a follow-on to the initial […]
Alibaba Cloud commenced operations in its first data center in Indonesia. The data center, which is described as the first global cloud hosting facility of its type in the country, will offer cloud products and services ranging from elastic computing, database service, networking, security and middleware to analytics and big data. “As the only global […]
Ericsson announced restated financial information for full year 2016 and each quarter of 2017. The reason given for the restatement was the new accounting standard IFRS 15, effective as of January 1, 2018. The company’s 2020 financial targets and near-term planning assumptions remain unchanged.
Tintri, which supplies enterprise cloud storage solutions, named Tom Barton as its new CEO, replacing Ken Klein, who departed following the company’s recent and disappointing Q4 financial report. Barton previously served as CEO of Rackable Systems and held senior executive roles at Planet Labs, Canara and Red Hat. “Tom is the ideal candidate to propel […]
Finisar introduced a 400G QSFP-DD LR8 and FR8 transceivers, a 400G QSFP-DD active optical cable, a 100G serial QSFP28 transceiver, and two 50G SFP56 transceivers. The rollouts were featured in a series of demonstrations at OFC 2018. The QSFP-DD (Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Interface Double Density) module form factor provides an eight-lane electrical interface, […]
AT OFC 2018, Luxterra showcased its latest advances in 100G/λ technology, PAM4 signaling, extended reach, increased operating temperature range, liquid immersion cooling, increased density and photonic integration. Product demonstrations included: IEEE802.3bs compliant 400G-DR4 technology platform demonstrating increased throughput and performance in Luxtera’s next generation products 30km, 50G-PAM4 single-lambda QSFP link demonstrating Luxtera’s extended reach capabilities […]
Qualcomm’s Board of Directors will not renominate Dr. Paul Jacobs as a director. The decision was taken after Jabos informed the Board that he is exploring the possibility of making a proposal to acquire Qualcomm. Dr. Jacobs relinquished his role as Executive Chairman of the Qualcomm Board of Directors last week, days prior to President’s […]
The Optical Fiber Conference and Exposition (OFC 2018), which was held this week in San Diego, attracted more than 15,500 attendees, 700+ exhibitors from 65 countries, and over 850 peer-reviewed technical sessions. Last year, OFC 2017 recorded 14,500 attendees and 663 exhibitors in Los Angeles. The organizers said OFC has been on a steep growth […]
Fujitsu introduced its new 1FINITY T500 and T600 series optical transport platform for network service providers and data center operators. The platforms are powered by the latest 16nm CMOS fin-FET digital signal processor (DSP) developed by NTT Electronics (NEL) in partnership with Fujitsu. The 1FINITY T500 and T600 enable up to 2.4 Tbps of service […]
Colt and Verizon have demonstrated two-way, inter-carrier Software Defined Network (SDN) network orchestration. The demonstration, which was held at an event in London, enabled each of the companies to make near-real-time bandwidth changes in each other’s production networks. The companies described the inter-carrier SDN orchestration as a world first and an important step in enabling […]
Customer deployments of branded data center Ethernet switch bandwidth increased by more than fifty percent in 2017, according to the latest report from Crehan Research Inc. The cost of a gigabit of bandwidth also saw its steepest decline in six years during 2017, according to the report, resulting in a significant increase in the average […]
ECI introduced network interface upgrades for its Neptune packet/optical and Apollo optical transmission product lines. ECI’s Neptune (NPT) packet-optical product provided an end-to-end metro solution for high-performance Layer 1 to Layer 3 services through the convergence of IP, Elastic MPLS (IP, TP, and Segment Routing), Ethernet (MEF CE 2.0 certified) and other services. With this […]
