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HuaweI: We're not quitting U.S.
April 25, 2013
Huawei would like you to know that while it has decided that it's unlikely to achieve rampant success in the U.S. carrier network equipment market, it's not pulling up stakes and leaving.
As previously reported, Eric Xu, Huawei executive vice president, told attendees at an analyst conference this week that "we are not interested in the U.S. market anymore.” Several press outlets (a quick web search will uncover plenty of examples) took these comments to mean that, in the face of the perception that it is a security threat to the U.S., Huawei plans to take its ball and go home.
The company is now telling media outlets such as Forbes and (for those of you...
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The significance of CPAK
April 10, 2013
No announcement at OFC/NFOEC generated more discussion than Cisco’s (NASDAQ:CSCO) unveiling of its CPAK optical transceiver module (see “Cisco unveils CPAK 100G silicon photonics-based optical transceiver”). Reactions ranged from “It’s the end of the road for traditional optical transceiver vendors” to “So what – it’s not much different than a CFP2.” I, of course, have a reaction as well, which falls somewhere between the two extremes.
Let’s get a few things off the table right away. The fact that the CPAK transceiver leverages silicon photonics is among the least significant things about it. Yes, silicon photonics holds great potential to reduce footprint, ...
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Ethernet runs out of steam
February 1, 2013
Big news on the higher-speed Ethernet front. No, not that work has begun on 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), thus setting the bar low, but rather the intention to go for 1.6 Terabit Ethernet (TbE) afterward. Yes, that’s right. After decades of advancing Ethernet in increments of 10, we will now have to settle for a mere quadrupling of speeds each standards cycle. No word on whether the timeline of each cycle will shorten commensurately, though I have my doubts.
So why the sudden change? Surely for such a drastic turnabout to occur there must be an earthshattering reason. Perhaps going for TbE and 10TbE thereafter would rip the very time/space continuum of the uni...
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