Lucy and the Photonics Football
The optical industry is plagued by manufacturing and packaging obstacles, but may finally be closing in the Holy Grail of Silicon Photonics. This time is totally different….
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The Brand New 30-Year Old Market
IoT is a catch all marketing team that has been bandied about for decades. There is really no such thing as IoT, but the number of connected devices is growing rapidly, and likely to accelerate as the cost of chips brings connectivity to many new areas.
MWC 2021: No News is Just No News
MWC 2021: No News is Just No News – The major companies have not announced much actual news at this year’s show. Such are the times.
More fun with acronyms: SD-WAN and SASE
More fun with acronyms: SD-WAN and SASE – An interesting corner of networking that could (maybe) become very important.
Choose Your Fighter
Choose Your Fighter – Networking is a growing pain point for the gaming industry, but solving the problem will be hard across gaming’s diversified ecosystem.
The Gaming Internet
The Gaming Internet – 3 billion people played an average of 7 hours of video games last year, but no one seems to be looking at what that traffic is doing to the Internet.
Hardware for the Edge
Edge Computing could be a sizable market for some companies. However, it does not need fancy new technologies or hardware so much as it needs solutions tailored to specific use cases and industries.
The 5-Year Plan for Telecom Equipment
Late yesterday, the Journal reported on comments made by US Attorney General Barr to the affect that the US government should construct a telecom equipment vendor that could compete with […]
Cisco Acquires Luxtera (Happy) and the Tragedy of Photonics (Sad)
Late in December, Cisco announced that it would acquire Luxtera a maker of silicon photonics parts. Luxtera is a cool company. They make ‘silicon photonics’, networking gear that combines the […]
Enterprise Hardware is Exciting
I published Issue # 18 of my D2D Newsletter today. The report is an in-depth look at the trends shaping the market for enterprise hardware. This post is the introduction […]