Poster sessions were scheduled from yesterday to provide an opportunity for selected papers to be presented in greater visual detail and should facilitate vivid discussions with attendees. For poster sessions, each author is provided a bulletin board on which to display a summary of the paper. Authors were remaining in the vicinity of the bulletin board for the duration of the session to answer questions.
Arastra today announced a demonstration at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC). This demonstration can be seen at the Intel booth, and highlights wire-speed optical connectivity between the Arastra 7148S Datacenter Ethernet switch and Intel’s 10GbE NICs with SFP+ optical transceivers.
The demonstration consists of Intel Xeon based servers equipped with Intel 10GbE NICs connected to an Arastra 7148S 48-port 10GbE switch, fully populated with Intel’s 10GbE SFP+ 300m short reach (10GBASE-SR), 10 km long reach (10GBASE-LR) and 100m datacenter reach (10GBASE-SRL) optical transceivers. The new datacenter reach transceivers enable cost-effective connectivity of 10GbE devices over OM3 multimode fiber, while remaining interoperable with industry standard 10GBASE-SR optics.
"With its wide range of options, leading price performance, and low power, SFP+ is becoming the interface of choice in the data center for server and switch 10GbE connections,” said Mansour Karam, Director of Marketing at Arastra. "We look forward to working with our partners on driving market adoption of SFP+ for 10 Gigabit networking." (Cited from Business Wire)
Avanex Corporation, a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions enabling next-generation optical networks, announced today that it has started volume shipments of subsystems based on its Oasis digital control architecture.
Avanex Modules and Subsystems General Manager Richard Smart said, “Our customers need to dramatically lower their costs and time-to-market. The software and firmware tools that we have developed for the digital control fabric of our Oasis amplifier are now being used to integrate and manage the optical functions of the regeneration and ROADM node in a cost effective manner. We’re moving away from extensive optical and electronic design into software configuration of platforms to meet customer specifications. Our ability to move the telecom design challenge into the software domain is giving a much shorter development cycle than has previously been achieved. We have already integrated performance monitoring and service channel transceiver functionality to our amplifiers and will move next to integrating tunable dispersion compensation and wavelength routing.”
Avanex Senior Vice President of Sales Scott Parker commented, “Through Oasis, we deliver lower cost, compact, and theally-efficient products which allow our customers to increase the traffic capacity in their central offices efficiently. We are also very excited by the many new opportunities we are currently discussing where the capability of our digital architecture to cost-effectively integrate amplification, tunable dispersion compensation, wavelength routing and performance monitoring offer a compelling and differentiated solution.” (Cited from Business Wire)
The subsystem EDFA/OPM line card will be on display at Avanex Booth 1734, Hall C, along with the industry leading Oasis PureGain™1600, 2800 and 3000 EDFAs.
The world’s first commercial source of individual photons (particles of light) using diamond based quantum technology has been developed by Quantum Communications Victoria (QCV) within the School of Physics at The University of Melbourne, Australia.
The Single Photon Source was launched today. The technology uses the unique properties of diamond to produce single particles of light (photons) at room temperature on demand.
The device which can be accessed with a standard optical fiber connection has the potential to be used for many applications including as a component in secure telecommunications systems, for quantum metrology and other quantum based applications.
QCV is considering commercial partners and investors to participate in a start-up which will pursue commercialization of the Single Photon Source in various markets.
The Australian based development team is collaborating with MagiQ Technologies, a Boston based supplier of Quantum encryption equipment to optimize the integration of the Single Photon Source into existing Quantum Cryptosystems, with testing and field trials the next step.
Further work is being undertaken in investigating the various other applications for the QCV Single Photon Source including: other quantum applications, microscopy and optical sensing.
QCV is supported by a State Government Infrastructure grant in Victoria, Australia and is the first group in the world to produce such a device.
(To be continued on 28th Feb, 2008)
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