Reducing Costs of Optical Interconnects
April 30, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Mitch Fields from Avago Technologies described the efforts needed to drive costs out of 40/100/400 GbE optical interconnects. One of the biggest impediments to growth in the high-speed Ethernet environment is the cost of the optical interconnects. Optical networks can be incorporated into a system as chip-to-chip,…