Aurrion: Juniper swallows silicon photonics player Aurrion

With an eye toward better handling of bandwidth-ravenous video streaming and data center to data center traffic, Juniper on Tuesday said it would buy fabless photonics manufacturer Aurrion for an undisclosed price."We expect that Aurrion's breakthrough technology will result in fundamental and permanent improvements in cost per bit-per-second, power per bit-per-second, bandwidth density, and flexibility of networking systems," said Pradeep Sindhu, co-founder and CTO of Juniper Networks wrote in a blog announcing the acquisition."Aurrion has invented breakthrough technology that combines the economies of scale pioneered by the silicon industry with the unique properties of light to carry information over long distances at significantly lower cost. The end result? Dramatically lower cost per bit-per-second for networking systems, higher capacities for networking interfaces, and greater flexibility in how bandwidth carried on light is processed inside the electronic portions of networking systems," Sindhu wrote.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here