This article discusses the opto-electronic integration approach to ensuring networks continue to meet bandwidth demands.
With network capacity demands expected to grow 25-30 per cent per year, driven by applications such as self-driving cars, augmented reality, internet of things (IoT), and 4k/8k video streaming content, network operators are challenged with an ongoing need to deploy solutions that are able to keep up with these capacity demands while being, power, size, and cost efficient.