If the 2011 calendar year could be described in three words, they would be “explosive bandwidth growth.” Both wired and wireless networks were stretched as consumers continued to adopt...
In the November/December 2011 edition of Lightwave magazine, Paul Brooks of JDSU describes in the article “New test techniques required for CFP 100G optics” how the latest generation of...
In the November/December 2011 edition of Lightwave magazine, Jean-Claude Charlier of BeamExpress SA and Sven Krüger of Cube Optics assert in the article “Long-wavelength VCSELs read to...
Cloud services and storage have exploded in popularity, enabled in part by virtualization technology at the server, the desktop, and in the storage-area network (SAN). For example, the multi-core...
In the July/August 2011 edition of Lightwave magazine, Per Lembre of Xelerated writes in the article “Programmable switching improves fiber access ROI” that flexibility is now becoming...
Modern day high-bandwidth conventional oscilloscopes are typically supplied with a maximum of four input channels (and with as few as one or two channels at a higher bandwidth rating), owing to...
By Jean-Lou Dupont Data-Tester, Inc. In 1943, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson infamously said, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” To put it mildly, that prediction...
Google spent much of 2010 beating the drums for an alternative to the IEEE’s 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) 100GBase-LR4 specifications. We want something that would produce modules that would...
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has received significant attention and praise for its efforts to develop an ecosystem of component and subsystem technology to support long-haul 100-Gbps...
Having been shut out of the high-end action in the coherent end of 100 Gbps, Altera (Nasdaq: ALTR) and Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) have moved to position their field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as...
