ECOC 2024 Show Report

Nvidia PAM-4 DSP, Ciena 2x 800G-LR, LPO Lives, 1600ZR slipping, L-Band ramping.

Cisco Packet Optical Networking Conference 2024

RON Goes Mainstream at Cisco’s PONC 2024. Our thoughts on the customer testimonials, product and technology updates, and live demonstrations.

CIOE24: Insights into China’s Market

Gathering the Chinese perspective on vendors and technologies.

2Q24 Optical Component Report

Datacom revenue hit new records with a surge in 400GbE shipments and continued growth in 800GbE. Telecom’s only growth area is 400G coherent pluggables.

2Q24 Transport Hardware & Markets Report

Optical sales fall -18% as carrier inventories take longer to deplete than anticipated.

Coherent 2Q24 Vendor Summary Report

New CEO Jim Anderson outlined broad strategic goals as the company takes a more cautious view than Lumentum on the potential for Telecom revenue growth.

Lumentum 2Q24 Vendor Summary Report

Lumentum signals the bottom for Telecom and a stall in Datacom revenue through next quarter due to a previously disclosed product transition.

Nokia 2Q24 Vendor Summary Report

Nokia announced its intention to acquire competitor Infinera and shed its ASN subsidiary. Optical sales fell -23%.

IP-over-DWDM Pluggables Forecast

IP-over-DWDM deployments of 400/800/1600ZRx optics and adoption across market segments

The Optical Circuit Switching Market

The current state of the art in OCSs, the players, why it matters today, and forecasts for the future.

GEN120+ Coherent Trials and Deployments

Cignal AI is tracking announcements of Gen120 (120+ GBaud, 1+Tbps) optical trials and deployments.

Ciena 2Q24 Vendor Summary Report

Sales were down in 2Q due to inventory absorption at North American carriers, and a pause in Cloud spending.

Nokia Acquires Infinera

The combination creates a company with an enviable regional balance, providing a buffer from regional geopolitical and economic instability.

Tracking the Coherent DSP Supply Chain

Uncovering who uses which DSP, and which DSP vendors ship the most volume.

Infinera 1Q24 Vendor Summary Report

Revenue drops -26%, but the company highlights a huge pipeline of potential business.

PacketLight Vendor Summary Report

The company has been an innovator in Compact Modular transport hardware for more than 20 years.

Compact Modular Hardware

This report provides historical information, industry context, and product examples of our classification of Compact Modular systems.

Datacom Optical Industry Tracker

This report tracks the component suppliers that enable the 400GbE+ Datacom Transceiver ecosystem. It includes an overview of the types of transceivers employed, the key components that are used in those transceivers, and which vendors supply those components.

OFC 2024 – What We Learned

This is a summary of how OFC 2024 and the conversations we had there shaped our thoughts.

OFC 2024 Marketwatch Presentations

Trends in operator spending, datacenter optics, and sanity checking the optics forecast for AI applications.