Archive for the ‘Active Optical Cables’ Category
A Trip to China and A Top500 Award for Quadwire
No CommentsPosted by finisar on July 14, 2010
This week’s Lightspeed post comes from guest blogger Tony Pearson, Finisar’s Director of Product Marketing.
A “lightspeed” visit to China! It was a short journey of only 3 days, with two halves and a tale of two cities, separated by a virtual “Great Wall”. The first half: a visit to Shanghai, both the city and [...]
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ISC 2010 Wrap-Up –What’s Hot in Supercomputing
No CommentsPosted by finisar on June 17, 2010
This week’s blog post comes from Katharine Schmidtke, Finisar’s Strategic Marketing Manager.
I had the pleasure of attending the International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) event May 31-June 3, in Hamburg Germany. The show was well attended and appeared to have doubled in size from last year. In attendance were all the major industry suppliers [...]
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The Silent War and the Yellow Wall
No CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on January 18, 2010
There is a silent war that has been brewing for years in our industry. Not everybody knows it, but we refer to it as the war between optics and copper. I will have several postings on this subject in the coming weeks. There are many fundamental limitations of copper, and as a fiber [...]
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SC09: And the winner is…
No CommentsPosted by Jan Meise on December 9, 2009
As promised we are excited to announce the winning result from our Laserwire® weight competition at Supercomputing 09.
Our question was: What is the % savings in weight of a 10 meter Laserwire active optical cable compared to a 10 meter RJ-45 cat6a cable?
The correct answer is: 85.46%
Check out the pictures of the Laserwire [...]
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5 Minutes with Jag Bolaria, Linley Group
1 CommentPosted by Jan Meise on December 7, 2009
Last month the Linley Group hosted the Data Center Networking seminar in San Jose, California. We took a few moments with Linley analyst, Jag Bolaria, to talk about the future of the optics industry and specifically his view on the war between Optics and Copper technologies.
JM: In the early 2000’s, the general view was [...]
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Finisar at Supercomputing09: Event Wrap-Up
No CommentsPosted by Jan Meise on December 4, 2009
What a week at SC09 in beautiful Portland. Maybe the weather was a little chilly but with over 10,000 attendees this was definitely the hot event in the HPC community. Looking at the traffic at Finisar and the booths of other optics companies it has become obvious that HPC and optics connect in a [...]
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Finisar Welcomes You at SuperComputing 2009
No CommentsPosted by Jan Meise on November 9, 2009
Next week Finisar will eagerly join the SuperComputing 2009 coterie in beautiful Portland, Oregon. Now in its 22nd year, SC09 is the premier conference and exhibition on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. With more than 11,000 expected attendees, it is an industry event not to be missed.
While there will be much [...]
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C.wire active optical cable: The Story Behind the Name
No CommentsPosted by Jan Meise on August 18, 2009
Did you wonder how we came up with the name for C.wire™, the latest addition to our Active Optical Cable (AOC) family?
When we started our AOC family, the first product name, Laserwire™, was born in our engineering department. Finisar engineer Luke Ekkizogloy even developed the little symbol on top of the logo to illustrate [...]
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Five Minutes with Brad Smith of LightCounting (Part II)
No CommentsPosted by Jan Meise on July 13, 2009
Last week, we brought you the first half of our recent conversation with Brad Smith, senior vice president of LightCounting. Below is the second installment of our discussion with him, where he raises a few key points about active optical cables that I think you’ll find interesting. Whether you agree or not, feel [...]
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A lot can happen in 5 minutes
No CommentsPosted by Jan Meise on July 8, 2009
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Brad Smith, senior vice president at LightCounting, a research firm dedicated to the transceiver market. Brad oversees LightCounting’s transceiver-related semiconductor and optical markets coverage, so he has a unique view on active optical cables (AOCs). He was gracious enough to answer our questions and [...]
