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...
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...
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...
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...
In the March/April 2011 edition of Lightwave magazine, Rudy Prater and Rob Hannah of Avago Technologies write in the article “SFP+ optical transceivers require engineering tradeoffs”...
In the March/April 2011 edition of Lightwave magazine, Josef Berger of Opnext writes in the article “New QSFP+ transceiver designs go the distance” that 40GbE QSFP+ optical transceivers...
According to the March/April 2011 Lightwave magazine editorial “These are your customers,” a recent study of Lightwave readership has revealed the criteria buyers of optical...
In the January/February 2011 edition of Lightwave magazine, Editorial Director and Associate Publisher Stephen Hardy writes in the article “OFC/NFOEC content extends beyond conference”...
