Open optical networking, the optical network design methodology that disaggregates transponders from the underlying optical line systems1, appears to be gaining momentum in the marketplace. To better understand the demand for and the potential impact of open optical networking on the evolution of se ...

Open optical networking, the optical network design methodology that disaggregates transponders from the underlying optical line systems[1], appears to be gaining momentum in the marketplace. To better understand the demand for and the potential impact of open optical networking on the evolution of ...

This year is ushering in a change in the capacity of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) platforms going into the network. ...

At the March 2016 OFC conference, Inphi announced its delivery of a 100G, QSFP28, PAM-4, pluggable transceiver with 80km reach. PAM technology has been utilized for 100G transmissions (Inphi is a specialist in this area) before but at much shorter distances. Pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) is an an ...

This year’s Layer123 SDN OpenFlow World Congress in Dusseldorf, Germany, was quite an expanded event from last year with over more than 1,500 people registering. There was a great mix of presentations from equipment suppliers, services providers and open source organizations at the event. SDN and ...

Infinera’s announcement yesterday that Pacnet has deployed its Open Transport Switch (OTS) embedded intelligence layer into its Pacnet Enabled Network (PEN) for trans-Pacific and intra-Asian optical network services brings an innovative design into production in the fast-moving market for dynamicall ...

The financial and analyst community tend to roll up equipment vendors’ revenues for product lines into a single high-order number to gauge market size and simplify the reporting and analysis. GAAP reinforces this mindset as the majority of public companies that are equipment and/or software supplier ...