Industry News

Light Peak Goes To The Dark Side!

July 29, 2011

Intel decided to first introduce Light Peak in a “copper version” and an optical version later. No launch date set yet. Intel sees 10G Light Peak “alongside of 5G USB 3.0” although consumers may not see it that way. Intel’s Light Peak is still in product development.

Light Peak and InfiniBand/Ethernet Active Optical Cables

July 29, 2011

USB has electrical power enough to power a scanner, printer, cellphone, camera whereas Light Peak does not have power. Adding copper power rails next to optical fiber in the cable is complicated. Many rumors have been circulating about the adoption by Apple for its PC but nothing formal has been announced yet.

10GBase-T Chip Supplier Solarflare

July 29, 2011

Solarflare is a venture funded, start-up company based in Irvine, CA that designs 10GBase-T server adapter cards and silicon chips sets. They are a key contender in the 10GBase-T “RJ-45 Ethernet” space for datacenter servers in competition with Broadcom, Aquantia, Teranetics/PLX, AMCC/Quake and others.

China’s Impact on the Global Optical Communications Industry

July 29, 2011

Headlines on continuing economic expansion in China have become a staple in the media. Forecasts on how the world will look in 20 years if the Chinese economy continues to grow at 10% per year are mind-boggling. However, the reality is much more complex than suggested by headlines. While transformation of Chinese economy over the last two decade is certainly a great achievement, the country faces numerous challenges.

USB 3.0 and PCI Express 3.0 Announcements at IDF

July 29, 2011

Only a year ago at IDF-2009, Intel introduced consumer optical interconnect called LightPeak, offering 10Gbps bandwidth over a multimode fiber capable of reaching 100 meters and the potential to scale to 100 Gps. An enormous amount of press coverage, blogs, YouTube videos, and wild market forecasts followed, and numerous large and startup companies announced support for various components.

Fibre Channel to fade a bit

July 28, 2011

Storage data is going to grow a great deal going forward. We expect unstructured data to grow faster as more and more data is published to the web, and to internal intranet sites using tools such as Microsoft’s SharePoint. Fibre Channel is expensive and is tied to structured data.

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