Fujitsu lights up new optical flame

Focuses on the emerging packet optical networking segment

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Sam Lisle
Fujitsu

Sean Buckley


While the optical market has seen its fair share of ups and downs in recent years, it’s clear that the demand for high speed optics is now on the rise as evidenced by new announcements by large carriers such as Verizon, which is expanding its ULH network routes in the U.S. and Europe.

In the following Audiocast interview, Editor in Chief Sean Buckley talks with Sam Lisle, director of market development at Fujitsu Network Communications about how new innovations such as IP optical networking platforms are breathing new life into the optical market.


Lisle discusses the following topics in this Audiocast:

• Is today's optical market more realistic than it was in the late 1990s?

• Elements of the Packet ONP (optical network platform) concept.

• How the Packet ONP concept resonates with U.S.-based carriers.

• Emerging discussions around CET (Carrier Ethernet Transport).

• The market opportunity for using Ethernet for backhaul applications.