PROMOTIONAL FEATURE
LUMENTUM BUILDS ON ACQUISITION SEIZES FIRST-MOVER ADVANTAGE INCONSOLIDATINGMARKET
T oday the information age is giving way to an to large information repositories, instant communications (audio/video), and a platform for discourse affecting geopolitics. With the acquisition of Oclaro in December of 2018, Lumentum seized first-mover advantage in a consolidating optical communications industry. It reaffirms a leadership role and underscores the focus on accelerating proven innovative photonic chip design, cost-effective highly-scalable manufacturing, and leveraging foundational technologies for component and subsystem solutions. Lumentum has augmented its foundational technologies leveraging materials expertise in gallium arsenide (GaAs), and indium phosphide (InP) for advanced global manufacturing capabilities. Successfully orchestrating the right combination of these disparate resources yields economies of scale at the fundamental photonic chip level. This strength gives Lumentum a differentiated leadership position for wireless, access, and datacom markets. Lumentum can point to examples where the company was “first-to-scale” and “first-to-market” in ROADMs, CFP2-ACO, EMLs, amongst others. Lumentum has a wide array of laser chips (EMLs, DMLs, and VCSELS) enabling many products including 100G Lambda MSA- compliant 400G modules including QSFP56-DD FR4, OSFP FR4, 100G single lambda QSFP28 DR/FR, and 25GE SFP28 LR. Lumentum’s combination of foundational InP chip technology, scalable wafer fabrication, and robust IP yields sophisticated digital coherent transmission products. The CFP2-DCO 100G/200G pluggable transceiver is a CFP2 MSA-compliant digital coherent optical module designed for line-side trunk DWDM data center interconnect (DCI), metro carrier, and regional/long haul applications. Along with earlier intelligence revolution: data at hyperscale speeds, nearly 50 billion devices communicating with each other, broader wireless coverage areas, and an explosion of content. The internet has become the great enabler – giving the connected access
generation modules, Lumentum has consistently demonstrated support of open networks with top-tier networking equipment manufacturers (NEMs) systems and graybox platforms. Lumentum offers a complete and comprehensive portfolio of ROADMs, amplifiers, and optical channel monitors that provide switching, routing, and signal conditioning. ROADM adoption and deployment are now occurring worldwide at unprecedented levels across telco, web, and cable operator networks. Over two decades of experience in optical transport, especially with wavelength selective switch (WSS) products, has given Lumentum a deep reservoir of intellectual property and application awareness. Lumentum has extensive foundational expertise in free space optics, LCoS, MEMs, PLC, and GaAs technology, all of which are integral to constructing sophisticated ROADM-based line systems. Convergence around colorless directionless (CD) and colorless directionless and contentionless (CDC) ROADM network architectures has provided clarity on roadmaps and enabled innovation focus. The TrueFlex® Contentionless Twin 8x24 is an excellent example of combining multiple foundational elements into an innovative solution. The TrueFlex Contentionless Twin 8x24 delivers low loss, removing the need for multiple erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) arrays in many network designs while enabling add/drop port scaling to support capacity growth in CDC networks. With the completion of the Oclaro acquisition, customers can take advantage of best-in-class products. The combination of the two companies promises to accelerate the development of new innovative solutions. Leveraging an expanded global manufacturing
capability, advanced testing, and quality regimens, helps to solidify an industry- leading position for Lumentum.
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