Collaborative initiatives are seeking to bridge the gap between small- and large-scale production of photonic integrated circuits, finds Andy Extance
Dr Marc Bohn gives a systems vendor’s perspective on the emergence of silicon photonics based components in coherent metro and long-haul optical networks
With packaging costs dominating the cost of optical transceivers, will silicon photonics ever provide the cheap, fast optical links that data centre managers crave? Rebecca Pool finds out
The jury is still out on the significance of silicon photonics-based products in the optical component industry, writes Roy Rubenstein
The plans for an economic recovery will undoubtedly need vast levels of public and private investment.
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
Mark Lutkowitz on future 400ZR pricing, its impact on certain key vendors and the outlook for 400ZR+ and 800ZR
While the Covid-19 crisis clearly impacted infrastructure deployment in Europe in 2020, it also undoubtedly reinforced operators’ mid-term FTTH ambitions
The all-important multi-vendor interoperability can only be achieved via industry collaboration, finds Keely Portway
2020 has shown standards are key to building the networks of tomorrow, and that’s something to be excited about, argues Bernd Hesse
Keely Portway counts down some of the most-viewed and industry-shaping news stories of 2020
Large webscale internet content providers have undoubtedly been the wielders of power in recent years. The only thing greater for them, has been their hunger for data.
