RE: Smartphones, Tablets, PC's, Routers Correct gilver, there are immense possibilities for mobile, PC's, etc, and they will need ultra-fast networking in order to use their ultra high speed applications.
That is what Infinera is doing. They are laying down the network, which should allow for future use of their PIC in other applications that will eventually go towards PC's, tablets, smart phones etc.
POET, if successful in the next 12 months, will not be first to market for anything. Genoa had already completed an integrated PLC back in 2002. POET won't have one ready, if they do, until 1st Quarter 2014.
A bit too late if you ask me. IMO, POET will fall off the map within the next year, or at the very least provide some competition to Infinera, but what happened to Genoa which had already produced an integrated chip similar to POET? Can't find them. Can anyone? JMO
Actually I just found, which I believe to be what happened to Genoa, Bookham plc which demonstrated the completely integrated chip in 2002. It seems that Bookham plc, stock symbol BKHM on the Nasdaq is now defunct. If Opel doesn't hurry and commercialize their POET, that may be what happens to Opel as well. JMO
https://www.lightreading.com/bookham-genoa-show-loa/240041659
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- OFC 2002 -- Bookham Technology plc (LSE: BHM; NASDAQ: BKHM) has demonstrated the hybridization of a linear optical amplifier chip on its ASOC platform. This break-through brings together two powerful technologies: the world’s most advanced platform for multiple active/passive optical integration and the first semiconductor WDM “amplifier on a chip”. Applications for the technology include loss-less components, metro amplification and advanced optical switching and signal processing.
The demonstration was performed with a Linear Optical Amplifier (LOA) supplied by Genoa Corporation. Genoa’s LOA is the first single-chip amplifier which can handle multiple wavelengths and data rates with low crosstalk, a critical requirement for WDM applications.
At its booth at OFC 2002, Bookham is demonstrating a typical metro configuration of power grooming, multiplexing and amplification – a combination which previously required multiple discrete devices but now promises to be achievable by low cost, small footprint integration.
Robert Green, VP of Business Development at Bookham Technology commented: “ASOC has demonstrated integration leadership through products such as single chip Mux-VOA and multiple active transceivers. The amplification function adds an extra dimension to the technology and opens new opportunities to develop low cost integrated sub-systems with our customers."
Bookham Technology PLC