Archive for the ‘Optics’ Category
Future Proof Your Network: Flexible Grid Architecture
No CommentsPosted by simonpoole on August 19, 2010
The driver for any development in optical communications technology is, almost without exception, a reduction in cost-per-bit/km travelled (although there’s one interesting exception to this which I’ll talk about at some future point). This intensely capitalistic and utilitarian approach has enabled the dramatic growth in the internet (YouTube needs very low cost/bit to be [...]
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Sensors Expo Wrap-Up
No CommentsPosted by finisar on June 28, 2010
This week’s Lightspeed post comes from guest blogger Pritha Khurana, Components Product Line Manager for Finisar.
The last few weeks have been very busy for Finisar. Spread across the world, our team participated in both the ISC and Sensors Expo conferences. I flew to Chicago to spend June 7 through June 9 at [...]
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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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Applicable Laws
2 CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on May 24, 2010
The following are some of my favorite laws, when it comes to tracking technology and bandwidth growth:
Everyone has heard of Moore’s Law, invented by the legendary Geofrey Moore, founder of Intel. Moore’s Law predicts:
The number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every 24 months
Probably the next most cited law in technology circles is [...]
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Video: Finisar 10G Tunable XFP Demonstration at OFC 2010
No CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on May 17, 2010
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Video: Finisar 100G Ethernet CFP Module Demonstration at OFC 2010
No CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on April 20, 2010
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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.
The [...]
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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?
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 later this week for the [...]
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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 [...]
