re: Ericsson Joins Cost-Cutting WDM-PON TeamHere finally is the missing hole(s) from the first WDM-PON installment.
Still... Europe and cost cutting... doesn't really jump to the forefront of my mind. But Government subsidized research sure does. Sooo.. here goes another short lived manufacturing cycle that gets exported to who knows where (we're talking some time after 2011!)
re: Ericsson Joins Cost-Cutting WDM-PON Team"The three-year Saradana project has attracted Gé¼2.6 million ($4.1 million) in backing from the EU..."
$4.1M in 3 years by all these corporations combined? What kind of R&D budget is this? and what can they accomplish with it? Does this say something about how serious the industry is about WDM-PON?
It sounds like they are talking about "prototypes" by 2011. What about ADC/Novera's system shipping TODAY? How do their cost compare to GPON? One can only project their cost to come down even further by 2011.
re: Ericsson Joins Cost-Cutting WDM-PON TeamJust agreeing here I guess, but really.. It's truly odd that sardana related news and ADC/Novera chugging-along-project seam to appear mutually exclusive in media.
re: Ericsson Joins Cost-Cutting WDM-PON TeamAt component/system levels, WDM would only add another layer of costs above transceivers. Transceivers are always needed regardless. The potential cost savings are really at network level and long term operating costs.
re: Ericsson Joins Cost-Cutting WDM-PON TeamIs this effort in any way an attempt to recreate the integration already achieved by INFN? At least at an operational level?
re: Ericsson Joins Cost-Cutting WDM-PON TeamEU has spent millions and millions of Euros subsidising R&D. Can anyone quote a product that came out of all this effort?
re: Ericsson Joins Cost-Cutting WDM-PON TeamOK, do you want examples from our industry or is examples from other industry's that are helped by the R&D euro's?
ok... how about the EDFA, the technology that underpins the entire optical communications industry.
Or, what about MP3, which you probably have content on your pc that requires this encoding.
Or, hmmmm, how about H264 video encoding
or....well lets see, what about the pump laser?
or.. at a more direct scale, what about the small memory devices that are inside every iPod? (spin out of Infineon makes those...based on EU research).
There are LOTS more examples. Try not to be so euro biased.
re: Ericsson Joins Cost-Cutting WDM-PON TeamThanks for this interesting list of achievements, sailboat. I'm not disputing the quality of the European R&D community, nor its significant contrinbutions to science and technology. I'm more concerned by the effectiveness of the EU funded collaborative programs where relatively small amounts of money are given to many programs whose participants are not always the most relevant ones in the continent or in the field. As a researcher I had good fun when I was invloved in one of them; but as a taxpayer...
Still... Europe and cost cutting... doesn't really jump to the forefront of my mind. But Government subsidized research sure does. Sooo.. here goes another short lived manufacturing cycle that gets exported to who knows where (we're talking some time after 2011!)