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LightCounting Forecasts over 300% CAGR
March 4, 2011LightCounting Forecasts over 300% CAGR for 10GBASE-T Port Shipments from 2009 through 2014.10Gb Ethernet market is propelled by Optical SPF+, then by copper interconnects. The 10GbE (10Gb Ethernet) market is finally taking off with shipments of SFP+ optical transceivers driving early growth. Several important trends are driving this market through 2014, described in “10GBASE-T to Dominate 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Eventually,” the latest report from LightCounting,LLC, the premier transceiver and copper interconnect market research company.
Latest Developments in AOC and 10GBASE-T Markets
March 4, 2011Molex Buys Luxtera’s Active Optical Cable Business. Luxtera spun off and sold its AOC business to Molex. Luxtera will continue as a stand-alone company developing silicon photonics technologies. In an exclusive agreement, Luxtera will develop and supply advanced chip-sets for future Molex products that are based on Luxtera's silicon photonics technology. This includes the next generation 14Gbps (FDR) and four channel 25Gbps products for the 100Gbps Ethernet and InfiniBand markets.
Sales of optical transceivers set a new record in Q3 2010
March 4, 2011Global sales of optical transceivers achieved new highs in Q3 2010 driven by strong demand for optical components and modules used in datacom and telecom networks pushed sales reached $670 million, exceeding the previous record set in Q2 2008 before the latest economic slowdown. The growth was driven by sales of 10 GigE SFP+ and DWDM modules, including 40 Gbps devices. Strong sales of FTTx transceivers and optical interconnects also contributed to the strong quarter.
10Gbit/s optical transceiver from C-MAC
February 28, 2011Great Yarmouth-based C-MAC MicroTechnology is to develop a 10Gbit/s optical transceiver for military and space applications.
Optical Components and Systems Companies Stocks
February 28, 2011
OE Solutions packages APD into Bi-directional SFP
February 23, 2011