4:00 PM -- While I am looking forward to CTIA , I will definitely miss San Diego and the OFC/NFOEC conference this year. Still, the show promises to deliver its usual fare -- a look at the current optical ecosystem and a glimpse at what technologies will handle tomorrow's bandwidth demands.

In this installment, Andrew Schmitt, directing optical analyst for Infonetics Research Inc. , gives us a list of items he's hoping to see and learn more about at this year's optical components confab:



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