HARNESSING THE POWER OF DARK FIBRE
For context , a petabyte of storage can accommodate roughly 20,000 Blu-Ray copies of Blade Runner resulted in over 20 % market share for 50G SerDes switch silicon in our first year of shipments .”
“ Developing highly robust switch silicon from the ground up and powering mission-critical networks at the world ’ s largest data center customers with a first product line is truly remarkable . The team at Innovium has successfully executed on their vision to provide breakthrough solutions with
TERALYNX products ,” said Sandesh Patnam , Partner at DFJ Growth , one of the companies that invested in Innovium . “ We are excited to invest in Innovium as they continue to make strong progress in customer deployments and expand in a large , highgrowth market .” Innovium ’ s success points to an incoming sea change in the data centre networking hardware market . We may be about to see other small challengers and big tech firms descend on the space , as chipsets and switches become even more important to sustained growth across the industry .
HARNESSING THE POWER OF DARK FIBRE
Fibre optics are the connective tissue that holds the modern world together . They form the backbone of the modern internet , carrying 99 % of all data sent around the world .
Back in 2017 , it was estimated that there were more than 1.1mn kilometres of fibre optic cable around the world -
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