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Please contact:
Jeff Claudino
Director of Sales, Insider Research Services
619-229-9940
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claudino@lightreading.com |
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| 100 Gbit/s: New Technologies Deliver Bandwidth & Reach |
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Cloud computing, video, remote storage, and other bandwidth-intensive services are driving demand for higher-speed connectivity. Data center and enterprise network managers must replace existing 10-Gbit/s links with 100-Gbit/s links to meet user expectations and business needs. Carriers are upgrading transport links to 100 Gbit/s or more as suitable solutions become available. To meet these needs, equipment providers are developing new systems with 40-Gbit/s and 100-Gbit/s interfaces that cover distances from a few meters to several hundred kilometers.
Equipment providers, silicon developers, and optical component vendors face significant challenges from 100-Gbit/s interfaces. Considering these challenges, and the immediate need for 40-Gbit/s and 100-Gbit/s solutions, vendors face difficult decisions. For long-haul applications, the recent push to adopt DP-QPSK modulation with a coherent receiver is reducing investment in other modulation schemes already established for 40-Gbit/s long-haul systems. The CFP form factor is more flexible in the enterprise. Both DP-QPSK and CFP present many challenges to developers with high-speed signals and close integration of optical and silicon components.
The demand for 40-Gbit/s and 100+-Gbit/s networking is growing rapidly in the data center and for other client-side applications. Since 2005, 40-Gbit/s InfiniBand has been available and 120-Gbit/s InfiniBand has been available since 2008, taking a significant slice of the high-performance-computing connectivity market. Ethernet is now catching up with the 40GE products available and 100GE products rolling out from 2010. Sonet/SDH and optical transport network (OTN) continue to be important for connectivity into the metro and long-distance links.
During 2010 there will be significant investment by equipment vendors in 40GE and 100GE solutions for both the data center and enterprise backbone. InfiniBand will continue dominating the highest-performance computing systems, but the market share for InfiniBand is unlikely to continue growing as cost-effective 100GE systems become available from 2011/12. Both Ethernet and InfiniBand are supported by QSFP+ and CXP modules. The CFP form factor provides a more flexible solution with support for Ethernet, Sonet/SDH, and OTN over single-mode fiber but is significantly more expensive. By 2012 an alternative form factor will be required supporting single-mode fiber at significantly lower costs.
100 Gbit/s: New Technologies Deliver Bandwidth & Reach details and analyzes 100-Gbit/s technologies, identifying the key advantages they hold for equipment manufacturers, together with relevant 40-Gbit/s technologies. It also surveys component availability and profiles 25 leading vendors in this growing market. The availability of 100-Gbit/s interfaces is growing, with semiconductor and optical component vendors introducing new products that deliver better performance and greater integration. This is a demanding market with high development costs, and few vendors can offer complete solutions across the varied technologies.
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 Table of Contents (cci0210toc.pdf) |
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| There are now four optical module form factors in use or under development for 40-Gbit/s and 100/120-Gbit/s applications in the data center and enterprise. Details of each module are shown in the excerpt below. |
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 Companies profiled in this report include: Altera Corp. (Nasdaq: ALTR); Avago Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: AVGO); CoreOptics GmbH; Cortina Systems Corp.; Finisar Corp. (Nasdaq: FNSR); Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME), a subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd. (Pink Sheets: FJTSY); Fujitsu Optical Components, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd (Pink Sheets: FJTSY); Gennum Corp. (Toronto: GND); JDS Uniphase Corp. (Nasdaq: JDSU; Toronto: JDU); Luxtera Inc.; Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: MLNX); MergeOptics GmbH; Mintera Corp.; NeoPhotonics Corp.; NetLogic Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: NETL); Oclaro Inc. (Nasdaq: OCLR); Opnext Inc. (Nasdaq: OPXT); Reflex Photonics Inc.; Santur Corp.; Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (SEI) (Pink Sheets: SMTOY); Sierra Monolithics Inc., recently acquired by Semtech Corp. (Nasdaq: SMTC); Source Photonics Inc., a subsidiary of MRV Communications Inc. (Pink Sheets: MRVC); TPack A/S; Xilinx Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX); and Yokogawa Electric Corp. |
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| APRIL 2010 |
 Npu+Multicore Survey |
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| JUNE 2010 |
| LTE Technology and Components |
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| AUGUST 2010 |
| 10GE Components Survey |
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| OCTOBER 2010 |
| 40G Switching -Chips and Technology |
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| DECEMBER 2010 |
| High Speed PON Technology and Components |
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| * Calendar subject to change |
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