At the March 2016 OFC conference, Inphi announced its delivery of a 100G, QSFP28, PAM-4, pluggable transceiver with 80km reach. PAM technology has been utilized for 100G transmissions (Inphi is a specialist in this area) before but at much shorter distances. Pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) is an an ...

This year’s Layer123 SDN OpenFlow World Congress in Dusseldorf, Germany, was quite an expanded event from last year with over more than 1,500 people registering. There was a great mix of presentations from equipment suppliers, services providers and open source organizations at the event. SDN and ...

Two equipment titans Coriant and Alcatel-Lucent entered the Data Center Interconnect (DCI) small form factor market with targeted packet optical networking products. ...

The financial and analyst community tend to roll up equipment vendors’ revenues for product lines into a single high-order number to gauge market size and simplify the reporting and analysis. GAAP reinforces this mindset as the majority of public companies that are equipment and/or software supplier ...