Posts Tagged ‘Finisar’
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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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 [...]
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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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Finisar Demonstrates 40G CFP Optical Transceiver at ECOC in Vienna
No CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on September 21, 2009
In Vienna this week? Then come and see us at this year’s ECOC exhibition and conference. We’ll be showcasing our latest technologies – including our 40G LR4 CFP module new EWP 1×2 WSS module for edge applications, and the advanced WaveShaper S-Series, a reduced form factor version of the existing WaveShaper product to [...]
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Vertical Integration and the Early Days in the Optics Industry
No CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on August 4, 2009
This week we have an exciting guest blog post from Dr. Julie Sheridan Eng, Finisar’s VP of Transceiver Engineering. Julie has been in the Optical Communications business for over 20 years, almost from the time of the first fiber optics deployments. From my conversations with Julie, she has certainly seen lots of change [...]
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Wavelength Selective Switches and Mixed Channel Spacing
3 CommentsPosted by simonpoole on July 28, 2009
In my last posting about Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) technology I mentioned that one of the technical differentiators of the LCoS technology was the ability of a single WSS to support both 50- and 100-GHz channel spacing at the same time.
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Network Tools departs Finisar
No CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on July 21, 2009
In our industry, M&A announcements seem to be the most interesting news of the day. Finisar is certainly no stranger in this arena. We have had 17 acquisitions over the past decade. In some ways, it was the technology acquired through these transactions that has helped us to become the world’s largest supplier [...]
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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 [...]
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Active Optical Cables and the truce between Optics and Copper
6 CommentsPosted by Jan Meise on May 13, 2009
This week’s guest blogger is Jan Meise. Jan is responsible for Strategic Marketing at Finisar and his work in strategic marketing allows him to bring a very interesting perspective to some of the new trends in active optical cables. I’m hoping Jan will be a regular guest blogger on the site.
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Welcome
1 CommentPosted by Rafik Ward on March 20, 2009
Welcome to Lightspeed, Finisar’s new blog for the optical communications industry.
My name is Rafik Ward and I’m honored and humbled to serve as the host of this blog. Over time, I will attempt to bring you the inside scoop of what is happening at Finisar. There are always many exciting things going on, many of [...]
