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Ten Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) members are uniting to showcase multi-vendor participation in OIF Interoperability 2012 – Enabling High-Speed Dynamic Services. The OIF’s Physical and Link Layer (PLL) demonstration will showcase interoperability of the Forum’s Common Electrical Interface (CEI) 28G Very Short Reach (VSR) draft implementation agreement that defines chip-to-module electrical interfaces. Demonstrations of the CEI-25G-LR signal for backplane interfaces will also be tested. These demonstrations will be on display at OFC/NFOEC, March 6-8 at the OIF booth #713.
“This demonstration of CEI-28G-VSR shows the ability to reach 100G for next-generation 4 x 25Gb/s based optical transceivers,” said Ed Frlan of Gennum and the OIF PLL Interoperability Working Group chair. “The CEI-25G-LR and CEI-28G-VSR electrical interface and signaling schemes being tested for interoperability support multiple 100G applications.”
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Alcatel-Lucent delivers full-year 2011 results in line with guidance, strong Q4 2011 cash-flow generation and well positioned for a better year in 2012.

Free cash-flow of € 541 million in Q4 2011
Significant sequential improvement to cash and costs position
Higher margin and strong positive net cash position targeted for 2012
Strategic decision to leverage the strength of Alcatel-Lucent’s patent portfolio

Key numbers for the fourth quarter 2011
Revenues of Euro 4,256 million, up 9.5% sequentially and down 11.2% year-over-year at constant currency
Adjusted gross profit of Euro 1,514 million or 35.6% of revenues
Adjusted operating income of Euro 316 million or 7.4% of revenues
Published net profit of Euro 868 million or Euro 0.29 per share

Key numbers for the year 2011
Revenues of Euro 15,696 million, up 1.9% year-over-year at constant currency
Adjusted gross profit of Euro 5,646 million or 36.0% of revenues
Adjusted operating income of Euro 610 million or 3.9% of revenues
Published net profit of Euro 1,095 million or Euro 0.42 per share

All figures in this document include the Genesys business in order to provide meaningful comparable information, except the mentioned Published figures; all Published figures report Genesys in discontinued operations. In addition to the Published results and consistent with previous publications, Alcatel-Lucent is providing adjusted results which exclude the main non-cash impacts from PPA entries in relation to the Lucent business combination and report Genesys as continued operations. Operating cash-flow is defined as cash-flow after changes in working capital and before interest/tax paid, restructuring and pension & OPEB cash outlay.

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CyOptics Inc., a leader in Indium Phosphide (InP) and Silica on Silicon optical chip and component technologies, today announced the availability of a new series of 40Gbps transmit optical subassemblies (TOSA) and receive optical subassemblies (ROSA) for use in Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable (QSFP+) Transceivers targeting high-bandwidth routers and switches in datacenter and enterprise networks. The TOSA and ROSA expand CyOptics’ growing portfolio of component solutions leveraging monolithic and hybrid Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs).

The TPIC-10410-A1 TOSA delivers four Coarse Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed (CWDM) wavelengths in the 1310nm window on a single optical output. The TOSA integrates four high reliability, high performance uncooled 10Gbps Directly Modulated Lasers (DMLs), an optical Multiplexer to combine the laser wavelengths, and four PIN photo-detectors for backfacet power monitoring. The RPIC-10410-A1 ROSA integrates an optical de-multiplexer to separate the four incoming CWDM wavelengths, an array of four high reliability, high performance 10Gbps PIN photo-detectors and a quad trans-impedance amplifier.

“Datacenter operators and equipment manufacturers don’t have to worry about the interconnect flavor now that QSFP+ is available for both SR4 and LR4,” said Ovum’s Principal Analyst Karen Liu. “CyOptics’ 40GE TOSA and ROSA enable this attractive high density form-factor for single-mode transceivers. We project 40G QSFP+ for LR4 applications to overtake CFP quickly, growing at a compounded annual growth rate of over 79% from 2012 through 2015; they represent one of the fastest growing market segments in the optical component space.”

“Our new TOSA and ROSA address the needs for very compact 40GE QSFP+ solutions to provide higher faceplate density and lower power consumption in Datacenters,” said Stefan Rochus, VP of Marketing and Business Development at CyOptics. “We are leveraging our extensive portfolio of high speed InP components together with our automated precision-robotic integration and packaging platforms to deliver these high performance and low cost 40Gbps TOSA and ROSA solutions.”

The TOSA and ROSA are packaged in hermetic, planar packages with an LC receptacle optical interface and two flex connects for the electrical interface. The compact TOSA (15.8 mm length and 5.8 mm width) and ROSA (17.2 mm length and 5.8 mm width) packages are compliant for use in the QSFP+ transceiver form factor and serve the 40GBASE-LR4 (10km) application per IEEE 802.3ba standard. CyOptics is sampling the TPIC-10410-A1 and RPIC-10410-A1 now, with general availability planned for July 2012.

Nokia Siemens Networks has started detailing the 17,000 planned job cuts it announced toward the end of 2011 as part of its broader restructuring program, with the vendor's home countries of Germany and Finland set to account for 2,900 and 1,200 job losses, respectively. (See NSN to Cut 17,000 Staff and 2011 Top Ten: NSN's Amazing Year.)

In Germany, where the vendor currently has 9,100 staff, it plans to reduce its workforce by 2,900 positions by the end of 2012 (not including any headcount reductions associated with divestments).

As part of its restructuring process, NSN will consolidate its German operations in five locations: All other sites in Germany will close, including the large site in Munich, and about 1,600 staff will be relocated to the five key sites.

The five key sites and their specialty focus areas are:

    Berlin, which will be focused on optical equipment manufacturing, R&D and services

    Bruchsal, also a manufacturing site, though with a strong focus on what NSN calls "new product introduction"

    Düsseldorf and Bonn, which will be home to the vendor's main customer support facilities

    Ulm, where key Long Term Evolution (LTE) R&D (including system engineering, development and testing) will take place

Plans for Finland
Of the 6,900 staff NSN has in Finland, around 1,200 will lose their jobs, with the positions being cut over the next two years.

All of NSN's locations in Finland are set to be impacted, but the brunt of the cuts will affect Espoo (about 700 job cuts), Tampere (a reduction of about 350 positions) and Oulu (about 150 job losses).

NSN says Finland will remain "an important center of R&D and innovation" for the company.

Details of NSN's home market job loss plans come as another telecom vendor, Tellabs Inc. (Nasdaq: TLAB; Frankfurt: BTLA), announces its own restructuring process and a headcount reduction of about 16 percent. (See Tellabs to Restructure, Cut 530 Jobs.)

— Ray Le Maistre, International Managing Editor, Light Reading