Finisar was recently recognized by the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) for outstanding export achievement by a manufacturer and received the prestigious 2011 Large Advanced Manufacturing Award. Over the past year, Finisar Australia’s exports increased 70 percent and Finisar was applauded for its global focus on key customers and ability to target products and services to the specific needs of businesses.
Together, the 75 finalist companies, including the 12 winning companies, have contributed $5.6 billion in export earnings to the Australian economy, and employed more than 10,000 people spanning across the industries of agribusiness, arts, education and training, energy, services and manufacturing.
Australia’s esteemed Trade Minister, Craig Emerson, hosted the event and acknowledged Finisar as a part of the wide array of high caliber companies that reflect the depth and diversity of the Australian economy.
Simon Poole, Director of New Business Ventures at Finisar Australia received the award and stated “We are honored to have had our efforts and successes recognized by Austrade and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. A big thank you for the acknowledgement and support!” Watch Simon Poole’s acceptance speech here.
Finisar Australia’s Flexgrid™ technology has won another award – a National Engineering Excellence Award from the Institute of Engineers Australia. Fresh from winning the coveted Bradfield Award for best engineering project from the Sydney division of the IEAust, Flexgrid™ was one of only 6 national awards presented this year. The award was received by Steve Winnall, Director of Product Engineering, at a black-tie awards dinner in front of 600 guests at Parliament House in Canberra last month.
To quote the judges: “With the exponential growth of data capacity on the internet, the demand for more flexible and efficient optical network services from telecoms carriers is ever increasing. Finisar has met this demand with its new Flexgrid technology. Flexgrid is a unique software enhancement which allows telecommunications carriers to deploy bandwidth, flexibly and dynamically in their networks. Well ahead of their global competitors, Finisar have overcome several engineering challenges and have now successfully launched Flexgrid to the market.”
A video of Steve’s acceptance speech can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPvnMeLIJdI
Finisar was also represented at the ceremony by Andrew Bartos, Steve Frisken and Simon Poole, who, along with Steve Winnall and the MC for the evening, Sally Dominguez from the New Inventors TV Show, are shown in the photo below.
Congratulations to all involved in the Flexgrid™ program – and thank you for your hard work and dedication which have made the project so successful.
Next week (November 14-17, 2011) Finisar will hightailing it to the Pacific Northwest for some HPC action at this year’s SuperComputing 2011 conference in Seattle, Washington. Now in its 24th year, SC11 is all about “Connecting Communities through HPC”. In order to build a larger, more diverse, knowledgeable and skilled community, this year’s conference is focusing on innovating HPC applications and advancing scientific discovery for the local, regional, national and global society.
While there will be much to do at SC11, we hope you’ll take some time to stop by the Finisar Exhibit Booth (#2634) where a few of our High-Speed Optics experts will be available to discuss company updates, in addition to trends in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Datacenters. During the exhibition, we especially look forward to sharing with you some demos and the latest technology developments in our active optical cable line.
Another booth to check out is the joint-hosted InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) and OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) (booth #6010) where you’ll find a presentation taking place from our very own Steffen Koehler around “Active Optical Cables and Transceivers of InfiniBand QDR and FDR”.
Still not quite convinced to make the trek? Then be sure to check out this welcome video the SuperComputing team pulled together around next week’s show. It’s sure to put a smile on your face and a longing for Seattle’s Best in your mind.
Don’t forget to register today, and hope to see you at the show!
As a member of the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA), Finisar is participating in the IBTA/ OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) booth at Supercomputing 2011 taking place in Seattle, Washington November 12-18.
We invite you to stop by the OFA/IBTA booth (#6010) to experience the booth’s demo discussing protocol performance, network efficiency, fair bandwidth allocation and application latency when using the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and Lustre file system between InfiniBand clusters at distances of more than 3,000 miles utilizing a 40Gbps transcontinental WAN connection.
The booth offers insightful presentations, including a presentation from our own Steffen Koehler, “Active Optical Cables and Transceivers of InfiniBand QDR and FDR,” and you will have the opportunity to talk with experts, industry stakeholders well-versed in InfiniBand, OFED and other open sourcing systems, in our expert round table taking place in the booth. To see the complete schedule, please visit the IBTA website.
Information on hotel, pricing and registration for SC11 is available at here.
We hope to see you there!
Finisar
IBTA member
This week’s blog post comes from Pritha Khurana, Product Line Manager of Finisar’s Active Components.
The week before last (June 6-8, 2011) we were at Sensors Expo – the North American conference focused on Sensors and Sensor Integrated Systems – located at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. Just like last year, the show took place alongside ESC Chicago (focused on Embedded Systems) and attendees had the option to check out each shows Expo floor.
At this year’s Sensors Expo, Finisar showcased our Active Components product line – including our industry leading high volume VCSEL technology. Finisar VCSEL’s superior reliability even in non-hermetic environments, low drive current, high coupled power, narrow and circularly symmetric beam and versatile packaging options are enabling solutions not possible with other optical technologies.
Finisar showcased the versatility of the VCSELs via several demos – One focused on velocity and particle size detection based on VCSEL being a coherent source of light. Another demo showed the superior performance of the VCSEL in edge detection over an LED due to its narrow beam divergence. The final demonstration highlighted the advantages of how VCSELs significantly reduced power consumption versus an LED (by virtue of higher power at similar drive currents).
We’re proud to share that there are over 100M VCSELs currently in the field and a wide variety of available VCSELs (single mode, multi-mode, high power (>200mW), high efficiency, multiple wavelengths) that can be used to develop many different sensors!
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January 25, 2012 6:57 pm | 
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