re: Polatis Plugs On With Optical SwitchesI believe it is hard to talk what will happen 3-4 years from now in optical space. There are plenty of applications for Polatis' switches today. They just have to work hard establishing relationship with right customers early in the game to make sure they will be well positioned when the market picks up.
re: Polatis Plugs On With Optical SwitchesI'm really curious to know what will be these "plenty of applications" that will come about in telecom. O/E prices continue to drop like a stone, ROADMs have been reduced to simple board components mounted in chassis, (as opposed to Polatis 1RU high 1 mile deep chassis)
Outside of the lab, where is the play? in 3-4 years, transponders will still be the cheaper solution.
re: Polatis Plugs On With Optical Switchesshaggy said:
"I'm really curious to know what will be these "plenty of applications" that will come about in telecom. O/E prices continue to drop like a stone, ROADMs have been reduced to simple board components mounted in chassis, (as opposed to Polatis 1RU high 1 mile deep chassis)
Outside of the lab, where is the play? in 3-4 years, transponders will still be the cheaper solution."
So do you believe there is not future for optical telecom? Just point-to-point fibers from LA to NYC and everything else electrical? Does not have much sense just based on electrical reach length of a few meters at 10 Gb/s.
Polatis needs to reduce the size to something resonable and talk about prices.
re: Polatis Plugs On With Optical SwitchesBalet...
You know that their is no such thing as a technicial sales guy...
One thing for sure is that I would love to sell products like this from innovative companies, unlike the ones where I can only imagine that you worked for...
a. JDSU b. Polaris c. Sorrento d. LU e. Oplink
the only thing in common for these companies is that you must have worked for them and they are doomed for failure!
re: Polatis Plugs On With Optical Switcheso-man wrote 'Is Polatis planning a ROADM on a chip like others are thinking about' The polatis MASS technology has small piezzo elements moving ferrules with the fibers inside aligning them to each other. The good thing is it's low loss, it will however NEVER be cheap or possible to intergrate it.
re: Polatis Plugs On With Optical Switchesshaggy wrote: So do you believe there is not future for optical telecom? Just point-to-point fibers from LA to NYC and everything else electrical? Does not have much sense just based on electrical reach length of a few meters at 10 Gb/s.
Shaggy, if I believed in no future for optical telecom I would've not spent last 10 years of my life in this area. There is plenty of the future for optical telecom, there is not future soon for all optical networks, based on economical factors that you pointed out.
Hopefully it answers your questions.
Could you please in the future (c) someone you are responding to? Thanks.
There are plenty of applications for Polatis' switches today. They just have to work hard establishing relationship with right customers early in the game to make sure they will be well positioned when the market picks up.
Is that transponder cheap enough? Or is it destin to stay in the LABs
Outside of the lab, where is the play? in 3-4 years, transponders will still be the cheaper solution.
"I'm really curious to know what will be these "plenty of applications" that will come about in telecom. O/E prices continue to drop like a stone, ROADMs have been reduced to simple board components mounted in chassis, (as opposed to Polatis 1RU high 1 mile deep chassis)
Outside of the lab, where is the play? in 3-4 years, transponders will still be the cheaper solution."
So do you believe there is not future for optical telecom? Just point-to-point fibers from LA to NYC and everything else electrical? Does not have much sense just based on electrical reach length of a few meters at 10 Gb/s.
Polatis needs to reduce the size to something resonable and talk about prices.
You know that their is no such thing as a technicial sales guy...
One thing for sure is that I would love to sell products like this from innovative companies, unlike the ones where I can only imagine that you worked for...
a. JDSU
b. Polaris
c. Sorrento
d. LU
e. Oplink
the only thing in common for these companies is that you must have worked for them and they are doomed for failure!
'Is Polatis planning a ROADM on a chip like others are thinking about'
The polatis MASS technology has small piezzo elements moving ferrules with the fibers inside aligning them to each other. The good thing is it's low loss, it will however NEVER be cheap or possible to intergrate it.
Shaggy, if I believed in no future for optical telecom I would've not spent last 10 years of my life in this area.
There is plenty of the future for optical telecom, there is not future soon for all optical networks, based on economical factors that you pointed out.
Hopefully it answers your questions.
Could you please in the future (c) someone you are responding to? Thanks.