Finisar Corporation is a global technology leader in optical communication

Optical communication

Optical communication is any form of telecommunication that uses light as the transmission medium.An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the...

 components and subsystems. These products enable high-speed voice, video and data communications for networking, storage, wireless, and cable TV applications.

Over the past two decades, Finisar has provided critical breakthroughs in optics technologies and has supplied system manufacturers with the production volumes needed to meet the exploding demand for network bandwidth and storage.

Finisar's vertically integrated business model is ideally suited for delivering massive production volumes while providing ready access to most of the critical technologies needed to develop the next generation of products.

Finisar's optical products include transceivers/transponders, active cables, WSS ROADMs, optical instruments, and active and passive components delivering the industry's broadest product portfolio backed by world-class quality and reliability.

With over 8,000 employees, Finisar has sales, channel, and support offices worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale

Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley located in the San Francisco Bay Area...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, with product development and manufacturing facilities located in California, Pennsylvania and
Texas (USA), Australia, China, Denmark, Israel, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Sweden.

Company Facts At A Glance

• Founded: February 2, 1988
• IPO: November 11, 1999
• Corporate Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA
• 8,000 employees worldwide
• 870 engineers worldwide with 120 Ph.D.s
• Operations in Australia, China,Denmark, Israel, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Sweden and USA.
• 1000+ Issued U.S. Patents

See also

• 100 Gigabit Ethernet
  100 Gigabit Ethernet
  40 Gigabit Ethernet, or 40GbE, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, or 100GbE, are high-speed computer network standards developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . They support sending Ethernet frames at 40 and 100 gigabits per second over multiple 10 Gbit/s or 25 Gbit/s lanes...
  
  
• Optical interconnect
  Optical interconnect
  Optical interconnect is a way of communication by optical cables. Compared to traditional cables, optical wires are capable of a much higher bandwidth, from 10 Gb/s up to 100 Gb/s....
  
  
• Parallel optical interface
  Parallel optical interface
  A parallel optical interface is a form of fiber optic technology aimed primarily at communications and networking over relatively short distances , and at high bandwidths....
  
  
• Interconnect bottleneck
  Interconnect bottleneck
  The interconnect bottleneck, the point at which integrated circuits reach their capacity, is expected sometime around 2010.Improved performance of computer systems has been achieved, in large part, by downscaling the IC minimum feature size. This allows the basic IC building block, the transistor,...
  
  
• Optical communication
  Optical communication
  Optical communication is any form of telecommunication that uses light as the transmission medium.An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the...
  
  
• Optical cable
• Photo diode
• VCSEL
  VCSEL
  The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, or VCSEL , is a type of semiconductor laser diode with laser beam emission perpendicular from the top surface, contrary to conventional edge-emitting semiconductor lasers which emit from surfaces formed by cleaving the individual chip out of a...
  
  
• PIN diode
  PIN diode
  A PIN diode is a diode with a wide, lightly doped 'near' intrinsic semiconductor region between a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor region. The p-type and n-type regions are typically heavily doped because they are used for ohmic contacts....
  
  
• Green computing
  Green computing
  Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. In the article Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices, San Murugesan defines the field of green computing as "the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers,...
  
  
• InfiniBand
  InfiniBand
  InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link used in high-performance computing and enterprise data centers. Its features include high throughput, low latency, quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable...
  
  
• InfiniBand Trade Association
  InfiniBand Trade Association
  The InfiniBand Trade Association is the standards organization that defines and maintains the InfiniBand specification. It is an industry consortium....
  
  
• Optoelectronics
  Optoelectronics
  Optoelectronics is the study and application of electronic devices that source, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, light often includes invisible forms of radiation such as gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared, in addition to visible light...
  
  
• Data center
  Data center
  A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...
  
  
• High-performance computing
  High-performance computing
  High-performance computing uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Today, computer systems approaching the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers.-Overview:...
  
  
• Cloud computing
  Cloud computing
  Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
  
  
• CXP (connector)
  CXP (connector)
  In the field of computer networking, CXP is a copper connector system with twelve 10 Gbit/s links suitable for 100 Gigabit Ethernet, three 40 Gigabit Ethernet channels, or twelve 10 Gigabit Ethernet channels. or a single Infiniband 12× QDR link. The C is the Roman numeral for 100 as a memory...
  
  
• Active Cables
  Active Cables
  Active cables are copper cables for data transmission that use a silicon chip to boost the performance of the cable. Without a chip, a cable is considered a 'passive' cable. Passive cables are liable to degrade the data they carry, due to such "channel impairments" as attenuation, crosstalk and...
  
  
• C Form-factor Pluggable
  C Form-factor Pluggable
  The C form-factor pluggable is a multi-source agreement to produce a common form-factor for the transmission high-speed digital signals...
  
  
• Fiber-optic communication
  Fiber-optic communication
  Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber. The light forms an electromagnetic carrier wave that is modulated to carry information...
  
  
• Optical link
  Optical link
  An optical link is a communications link that consists of a single end-to-end optical circuit. A cable of optical fiber, possibly concatenated into a dark fiber link, is the simplest form of an optical link....
  
  
• List of device bandwidths