Silicon photonics: beyond the hype cycle
1 March 2018
Will silicon photonics live up to its promises? Pauline Rigby investigates
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Yole Développement
Silicon photonics to capture almost $4 billion of optical transceivers market by 2025
22 January 2018
Silicon photonics is on the verge of experiencing dramatic uptake in optical transceivers, market research firm Yole Développement has reported, with the technology set to capture 35 per cent – almost $4 billion – of the optical transceiver market by 2025, up from just a few per cent in 2016.
The transceivers are expected to be used mostly for intra-data centre communication, according to Yole, with the strongest demand being for 400G (400 Gigabits per second), and 200G acting as an intermediate step between 100G and 400G.
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