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MACOM and AOI collaborate to enable production shipments of 100G transceivers M ACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, a leading supplier of high-performance RF,
Oclaro’s Q2 results show continued growth in 100G Oclaro has announced financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2016, which ended December 26, 2015. Greg Dougherty, Chief Executive Officer, commented, “With a second consecutive quarter of 20% sales growth in our 100G portfolio we have again delivered stronger financial performance.” Dougherty added, “The quarterly revenue growth drove higher gross margin and net income. We continue to see robust demand for our 100G product portfolio combined with favorable market conditions. As we expand capacity in Asia, both for our current and new 100G products, we expect revenue growth in 2016 to continue.” Oclaro’s guidance for the next quarter’s trading, ending March 26, 2016 was as follows: revenues in the range of $97 - $103m; non-GAAP gross margin in the range of 26-28%; and non-GAAP operating income in the range of $2 - $6m. Over 100 million Gigabit subscribers forecast by 202 Broadband market intelligence firm, Point Topic, have forecast in excess of 100 million people will be subscribed to gigabit labelled services by 2020, with G.fast technology supporting the growth. Speaking at the Broadband Forum’s quarterly meeting, in Hong Kong, Point Topic CEO, Oliver Jonhson, said G.fast is a “vital technology for operators with copper in their networks”. Johnson predicted that most of today’s markets will have some G.fast in the next five years, with some coverage approaching 50 per cent of the market. A compound annual growth rate of gigabit tariff subscribers over the next five years is projected to be at least 65 percent and much of the growth is expected to come from the APAC region. NEWS IN BRIEF
S panish telecom giant Telefonica new global company which will combine certain infrastructure assets belonging to the group, like 31,000km of submarine fibre optic cable, which includes SAM-1, a submarine cable connecting the US with Central and South America, and 15,000 Spanish cell towers. Telefonica said that Telxius will enable them to manage the company’s infrastructure on a global scale, allowing has announced the creation of Telxius, a microwave, millimetre wave and photonic semiconductor products, and Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., a leading provider of fibre-optic access network products for the Internet datacentre, cable broadband and fibre- to-the-home markets, today announced their collaboration to support initial orders and production ramp of 100G QSFP28 optical transceiver solutions for datacentre applications. “We believe we have the requisite technology, products and application support to enable datacentre customer’s faster time to market while solving their most complex connectivity issues.” Today, the QSFP28 transceiver is the predominant form factor for 100G switching and routing connectivity, and a key enabler as 100G begins to ramp in datacentres. As part of the collaboration, Applied Optoelectronics will leverage MACOM’s broad portfolio of CDRs, drivers and TIA chipsets
Applied Optoelectronics will leverage MACOM’s broad QSFP28 solutions portfolio.
Italia have all created separate companies for network assets in order to optimise investment and strategic focus. Telefonica’s international fibre optic network connects more than 40 countries across Europe and the Americas, providing Telefónica Group services as well as other fixed and mobile operators, internet service providers and content providers. The company said that more assets could be added to the new subsidiary in the coming months. transceivers optimised for datacentres.” “This multimillion dollar order from AOI marks the beginning of a collaboration in support of AOI’s market leading position in the 100G optical datacentre access market, builds upon on our success in the 100G Long-Haul and Metro optical market and underscores that MACOM is well positioned to benefit as 100G continues to ramp in datacentres,” said Preet Virk, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Networks, MACOM. “We believe we have the requisite technology, products and application support to enable datacentre customers’ faster time to market while solving their most complex connectivity issues.”
‘a more specialised and focused approach, with the aim of increasing the services provided to other operators, improving the return on capital invested and allowing Telxius to participate more actively in the growth opportunities that exist in the industry, including the possibility of incorporating third party assets’. The move follows a recent trend among telecom operators to separate their network infrastructure from services to customers. Over the last twelve months, America Movil, O2 Czech Republic and Telecom in its QSFP28 solution. MACOM chipsets provide low power and a small form factor, which are critical enablers for the QSFP28 solutions. “MACOM offers an extensive chipset product portfolio for datacentre applications for both CWDM and PSM-4 applications, that is key for the transition of the mega- datacentre customers from 40G to 100G,” said Joshua Yeh, Senior Vice President of AOI’s Network Equipment Module Business Unit. “Through this collaboration coupled with our internally sourced 25G laser diodes and 100G light engines, AOI is excited to offer customers volume production of 100G
Telefonica forms new global infrastructure company
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