Archive for the ‘Optics’ Category
Successful 100G Field Trial Demonstration
No CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on March 9, 2010
This week Verizon, Juniper Networks, NEC, and Finisar announced the successful completion on February 25th of the first real traffic 100G optical fiber transmission field trial applying standards-based optics end-to-end. This is the first multi-vendor demonstration of real traffic transmission on a single optical fiber. I invite you to read the full press release.
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Trivia Question #2
11 CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on March 4, 2010
Question: In the United States, which company takes credit for deploying the largest fiber to the premises (FTTP) to date?
Provide your answer using the blog commenting tool (only one answer allowed per person). There will be a slight delay before your response is posted. Check back in a few days for the winning name [...]
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Trivia Question #1
11 CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on March 2, 2010
Are you ready to test your knowledge in fiber optics trivia?
Question: What year was the first transatlantic telephone cable using optical fiber deployed?
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Lightspeed Celebrates One Year with a Fiber Optics Trivia Contest
2 CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on March 2, 2010
It’s the beginning of March and in our industry this signifies the occurrence of the annual OFC/NFOEC Conference in sunny San Diego. It also marks the first anniversary of our optics blog, Lightspeed, since its launch last OFC. To celebrate, we’re giving you a chance to show off your knowledge of the optical communications [...]
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Old Poole’s Almanack: Predictions for 2010 and Beyond
2 CommentsPosted by simonpoole on February 17, 2010
As this is the start of another decade, I thought I’d begin by penning some thoughts on what might occur in the optical communications space in the coming year, a sort of Old Moore’s Almanack, complete with the usual predictions of a rain of frogs and the appearance of little green men in some remote [...]
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Growth Through Murders and Inquisitions
2 CommentsPosted by finisar on January 27, 2010
This week’s post comes from Finisar CFO, Steve Workman.
I was invited by Rafik to do a guest post on Lightspeed. I considered various topics including the adrenaline rush we all get working on the “ragged edge” of accounting, but then it occurred to me that you can’t truly know Finisar without understanding our views on [...]
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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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SFP+ Shipment Milestone: 1.5 Million and Counting
No CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on January 5, 2010
Welcome to 2010! I’d like to begin the new year by recognizing an important company milestone: Finisar has shipped more than 1.5 million SFP+ optical transceivers since 2007 – this volume is equivalent to the entire population of Phoenix, Arizona – the fifth largest city in the US. It is not every day that the [...]
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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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Next Stop: The Land of Down Under
No CommentsPosted by finisar on November 20, 2009
In one week, you can catch Finisar’s Simon Poole as a plenary speaker at the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) – set to occur November 30 – December 3 in Adelaide, South Australia. The session will take place at The University of Adelaide on Tuesday, December 1st at 9:35a.m. ACDT. Simon [...]
