TOKYO and KAWASAKI, Japan -- Fujitsu Optical Components Limited and Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. today announced to jointly develop 40Gbps and 100Gbps integrated receivers. 40Gbps receivers will be used in 40Gbps optical networks whose deployment is growing constantly on a global scale; 100Gbps receivers will be used for next-generation 100Gbps optical networks.
Furukawa Electric is responsible for developing PLC (*1) technology which effectively reduces the size of integrated receivers. Fujitsu Optical Components is responsible for developing and commercializing the receiver utilizing integrated module technologies for PLC, high-speed photodiodes, and amplifier.
By speeding up its product development process, Fujitsu Optical Components will deliver compact, energy-efficient and low-price integrated receiver for ultra-high-speed optical networks.
By strengthening PLC technology of the optical interferometric circuits for receiver, Furukawa Electric will market the product as a key device for next-generation optical communications.
In recent years, the global expansion of new services such as cloud computing and on-line streaming has brought about a dramatic increase in data communications. As the data transmission volume of communications networks rises, optical transmission equipment for 40Gbps backbone networks is being widely introduced. At the same time, R&D activities related to the commercialization of next-generation 100Gbps optical networks have gained significant momentum.
However, due to advances in transmission speed, the components that constitute these optical transmission equipments are growing both in size and complexity. Larger equipment results in the need for larger installation space and higher power consumption. Meeting the demands of growing data communications while reducing environmental impact at the same time has become a major challenge for 40Gbps and 100Gbps optical transmission systems.
"Big E" was used as one of the nicknames of the Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise in WWII. You might be the first person to use that nickname on this board for a pile of rubbish.
1. Many people using it does not remove the fact I was the first to coin it. Would you like make a small wager on this?
2. You never overcame my glass house claim on the basis of the criteria I outline which connects to all your posts past and future. The only thing you did was to agree to it.
3. Based on your total agreement I read your additional material and after rereading the PR I decided to withdraw my statement.
4. The many people adopting my creations is normal, natural and enforces the true order of things. Don't fight it and fighting it will not go well, trust me go with it and love it. Be well.
danP, so you jump up and down LOUDLY online when you think the news is your way.... but all you offer up is this milktoast when it has been shown you are mistaken?
Not even an apology for the comments attacking my integrity?
"you must have mis-read" the article?????" give me a break amigo. First you attack any post that disagrees with your assumption (do you know the street definition of "assumption"?); then when shown how patently incorrect you were, all you can say is you "misread"?
Perhaps you should start to read more carefully in the future (and THINK more carefully, and learn something about this industry and technology) before you attack comments out of hand and before you attack the person making the comments.
and by the way, my use of "big E" is by no means meant to be a complement. Also, I am not willing to give you credit for "inventing" this moniker. Many many have used this (as a derogatory nickname) for years for this bunch.
danP... a "warning against hypocrisy".... you make me laugh amigo.
1) don't have to be inside to know the facts I stated. it is well known and has been well known in the industry that Furukawa has a very robust and well established PLC product line and that Fujitsu uses many of their parts. Not a guess. Fact.
2) a simple reading of the technical literature will reveal to you the differences between what big E is focusing on and what the announcement by Fuji / Furukawa was about.
3) don't be an idiot. Trying to educate you here. You can't make wild claims that are simply not grounded in fact. The applications are not the same, the technology platforms and products should not be co-mingled. It would be kind of like saying: company "x" or "E" in this case, wins the business to supply brake parts to SAAB for the automobiles.... therefore they automatically win the business for the flap controls for SAAB jets.....
4) it is well known that Fujitsu - Furukawa have a longer an deeper relationship than Fuji - Enablence. And have been working together for years on these ACTIVE optical products. The Enablence deal is to do with PASSIVE, high channel count AWG's for ROADM's. Completely different.
5) don't you think that big E would have taken the opportunity to ANNOUNCE that they were part of this and that they would have been part of the press release if they were involved? It is clear that big E could have used some good news to blunt the recent news on quarterly results.
Dan, you should learn not to attack or throw barbs at those trying to inform and help you and give you good information. While you may not like it, this is good information. you should take it and use it. not try to fight it and be in denial.
While you may not believe it, I do actually know what I am talking about here. And no, I am not breaking any NDA's or confidentiality agreements. But you can take it to the bank here. There is NO Enablence content or technology or product involved in this announcement about RECEIVERs being jointly developed. if you don't believe me, care to make a side wager? Note: I do not make small bets. How much can you afford to loose. NOTE 2: my little brothers will advise you: DON'T BET!... I never offer to take a bet unless I already know I have won. <GRIN>
Its not my fault based on the fact that nothing seems to be public. Even your ideas are guesses into the wild unknown. Unless you have first hand knowlegde and know the people who are working on thisproject which 100% assume not. It's a glass house and this is actually a warning against hypocrisy.
sorry buddy, but this one is definitely a big SWING AND A MISS for you.
The Fujitsu / Furukawa announcement has ZERO enablence content or product in it.
In fact, Furukawa has a very nice PLC product, and FAB, thank you very much. Fujitsu and Furukawa partnering on this in no way benefits Enablence, but rather effectively illustrates that Enablence is only one of many partners / suppliers to Fujitsu and a relatively small one at that.
While Fuji may or may not be basing it's ROADM's on the big E (jury is still out on that, despite the press release... it is for CERTAIN there are more than one supplier to Fuji for these products), this 40G receiver announcement in no way touches E.
Kind of grasping at straws here amigo?
Or is it that as an investor, who mostly looks at press releases and quarterly reports, you are not really technically deep enough to fully understand the subtleties implied in the word PLC and "approved" vendor.... and the subtleties around all the detailed engineering in these applications?
Enablence might be headed for the big time came with the announcement in May 2009 that Fujitsu had selected Enablence to supply its PLC-based fibre optic products, and would ".....source its PLC based component requirements from Enablence on an ongoing basis".
This could be Enablence at work supplying Fujitsu!!!
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