Data center expert researching, blogging about optical components

A technical expert in the field of data center technologies has launched the Optical Components blog. Lisa Huff, whose name you may recognize as a speaker at some of our webcast seminars over the past couple years, started the Optical Components blog in late June; her first entry discussed the real-world implications of the 40/100Gbit Ethernet standard ratification.

Huff also conducts market analysis and has written research reports for CIR. In a report published earlier this year, Huff concluded that fiber-based 10GBase-SR, not twisted-pair copper-based 10GBase-T, is the most economical flavor of 10Gbit Ethernet for the end user.

The Optical Components blog is worth watching. Lisa Huff is a veteran of data center technologies, and her insights can save data center and network managers countless headaches. I'll likely be referring you to her posts frequently.