Lurking behind Light Reading's New Product Recap reports is a modest database whose main function is to try to reduce the "D'oh!" factor of running the same product twice. The fact that we pay the kind of meticulous attention to detail it also means we can provide you an overview of what has been happening in the Recap world during the last year.
For starters, here are all the recaps we've done this year:
On the next page, we'll tell you how many new products we tracked at each trade show and how many new products we tracked in each of our usual categories.
After that, we'll list how many times each company we tracked appeared in our 2011 new product recaps.
We'll end with a giant table that shows you the companies and products we have listed in the 2011 Recaps, and where we did so -- either in the regular monthly Recaps or in one of the show-associated specials. Be warned, however, that the preceding statement is not quite true -- a very small number of products (28 out of a total of 986) were not actually so listed but were used as input to the Light Reading Leading Lights 2011 material, and so they are featured elsewhere.
These tables can, of course, form the basis of a festive-season quiz. So you think that you know what is going on in telecoms? What, then, is the JESD204B v.1.1 LogiCORE IP? Which company made it? Which came earlier in the year, JDSU's ONT-600 Multi-Port Test Module (MTM) or the MAP Swept Wavelength Test System (mSWS)? Which company released the ASR 901, ASR 903 and ASR 9001 Series? A correct answers to that last question will demonstrate the Recap view that it is an unnecessary (and irritating) tautology to prefix the company name to all products, as certain sections of the industry do.
Anyway, enjoy our 2011 recap of Recaps. Here's to a productive 2012.
— Tim Hills, special to Light Reading, and Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading
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