Future gazing
26 November 2020
Leading industry lights talk to Keely Portway about the challenges and opportunities faced by the optical communications supply chain in the last 12 months, and predict what could lie ahead
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Key developments of 2020
24 November 2020
Keely Portway counts down some of the most-viewed and industry-shaping news stories of 2020
LightCounting research note highlights steady Q3
13 November 2020
Industry analyst firm, LightCounting has released its latest research note, which provides analysis of the latest quarterly financial reports.
Optical comms market emerging first and fighting fit from Covid-19
11 May 2020
LightCounting's updated forecast for the optical communications market provides (tentatively) positive and reassuring reading.
A deep impact?
5 May 2020
A round-up of the impact of Covid-19 on the optical communications industry from a number of leading analyst firms
CSPs searching out new revenue opportunities, says LightCounting
17 January 2020
LightCounting has released a report looking at the impact of 5G and the cloud on telecom networks, and how these factors are shaping the market.
Sales of Ethernet transceivers to decline this year, says LightCounting
4 October 2019
Specialist market research firm LightCounting has released its latest High-Speed Ethernet Optics report.
Figure: Sales-weighted Average Profitability across the Industry Supply Chain
Optics are weak link in industry supply chain, suggests new LightCounting report
3 June 2019
Industry analyst firm, LightCounting has released its latest State of the Optical Communications Industry Report.
Improved forecast for Ethernet transceivers to follow a flat 2019, says LightCounting
1 April 2019
Optical analyst firm LightCounting has released its latest report covering high speed Ethernet optics.
California contemplation
25 March 2019
Keely Portway reports from the OFC 2019 Conference and Exhibition in San Diego
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As the pandemic underlines the value of the internet more than ever, its underlying technology is making one of its biggest transitions for years.
The data centre market is a particularly wide-ranging one, with one of the driving forces in recent years the emergence of the hyperscale data centre or cloud service provider.
As the world struggles to settle into the ‘new normal’, today’s optical networks need to be flexible in their architecture blueprint, while adapting to new technologies to provide the kinds of new capacity and service options to meet accelerated demand for higher bandwidth.
To address the undeniable growing demand for higher bandwidth, optical vendors have been playing their role with the development of various coherent optical transceivers for different areas of the market, each with its own set of design considerations.
The demand for bandwidth has unarguably skyrocketed in recent years, thanks largely to the increased appetite for online gaming, content streaming and social-media use.
The importance of reliable connectivity has never been more recognised than it is now. While ambitious targets have been in place across the world for fibre deployment for some time, the ongoing pandemic has served to push it to the forefront.
Looking into the future of telecommunications, it could be argued that AI and telcos will effectively transform each other, explains Raf Meersman
How do we, as an industry, build better broadband for a post-pandemic world? The answer could be fixed, suggests Stefaan Vanhastel
Altnets could be the key to connecting rural areas in 2021, argues Michael Armitage
A glance at the current market for fifth-generation coherent optics, and some of the latest developments available
