Dave Parry joins Solarflare with extensive experience leading teams that design and bring to market high-performance server and networking products.

The consortium is currently accepting founding member companies who will have an early opportunity to provide input into the testing process and have market-ready products as the high speed Ethernet standards evolve.

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has finalized two implementation agreements (IAs) addressing the key electro-mechanical aspects of a 100G long-haul transmission module.

Siemon's Moray QSFP+ 40G active optical cable assemblies incorporate Silicon CMOS Photonics technology developed by Luxtera.

In addition, Avago Technologies was added as a consortium member.

Ixia has assisted Deutsche Telekom in pre-deployment  testing of 100 Gbps network links.

By enabling IT managers to leverage investments in installed copper cabling and legacy 1000BASE-T equipment, the company says its SolarStorm SFN5121T adapter will accelerate deployment of 10GbE networks.

The new blades for the the NetIron MLX and DCX Backbone series are faster and offer more density for heavily trafficked service provider networks and booming server virtualization adoption in data centers.

Better yet, this boom doesn’t look like it will go bust anytime soon, according to market research firm LightCounting.

Zarlink has shed its Optical Products group to Tyco Electronics for approximately $15 million in cash.