Roy Rubenstein from Gazettabyte interviews Acacia’s Tom Williams to discuss scale out, scale up and scale across networking and what this means for the industry. With AI disrupting optical networking’s established roadmap, vendors are forced to reconsider everything from pluggable optics and cooling assumptions to laser supply and coherent system design.
Key topics covered in this interview include:
- Supply constraints
- Architectural fragmentation
- Acacia’s market-leading coherent volumes
- Acacia’s Kibo DSP and 1.6T client optics
- The 100ZR QSFP28 market opportunity
- 1.6T coherent and beyond
