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To: Joe Wagner who wrote (3151)4/23/2001 10:46:01 PM
From: Joe Wagner  Read Replies (2) of 4808
 
Finisar Announces 10-GigE Serial Optical Transceivers; Revolutionary Technology Offers Significant Cost Savings
News Release - 13-Feb-2001
corporate-ir.net

"Finisar's FTRX family has a smaller footprint than traditional telecom devices"

""In terms of cost, the use of high-speed serial transmission wins every time over wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)," said Jerry Rawls, Finisar's President and CEO. "Four channel 2.5 Gb/s WDM solutions for 10 Gb/s requires more components and complexity than a single high-speed serial transmission link""

"True 10 Gig transmission reduces the number of optical components required to achieve capacity - one laser instead of four - and potentially reduces the number of associated signal processors as well."

"The FTRX product line will transmit and receive data traffic for Fibre Channel, Ethernet and SONET standards. The current version of the FTRX product uses a 300-pin connector"

J. sounds like this is the right product for a Wave Blade, connecting 256 port directors with other directors across optical Metro Networks and to other Directors within large Data Centers. It will be interesting to see how soon they get to low cost 100 GB tranceivers for a "Laserwave Blade."
It seems like evolution hinges on imploding cost structures sometimes.

Just my own musings and speculation about the technology evolution of Optical SANs. 2GB x 32 ports = 64 GB tranceiver (in each Director) required to connect two directors in different Data Centers in a metro environment, or connect one 256 port (four 64 GB tranceivers) to four 64 port (one 64 GB tranceiver) directors.

Would a 64 Port Director then become a 32 Port Laserwave Director? 32 Ports in, one 64 GB Laserwave port tranceiver coming out (32 port output combined into one serial stream), to be connected to a Metro Fiber linking it to the Data Center across town maintaining a multistaged fabric. Can you combine multiple 2 GB Fibre Channels and send them in a serial tranceiver? Is this thinking totally out in left field?

Joe
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