Data Centers are embracing #100G optical interconnections. MACOM plans to capitalize on this opportunity: http://ow.ly/77tM309Db9s 

http://www.macom.com/files/live/sites/ma/files/contributed/technology/EFT%20Manifesto%206%20March%20web.pdf

MACOM’s Etched Facet Technology (EFT) promises a transformative evolution in optical connectivity within Cloud Data Centers, enabling the breakthrough cost efficiencies and hyperscale growth agility needed to keep pace with an estimated five trillion gigabytes of annual Data Center traffic – a number that will skyrocket exponentially in the years ahead as millions of new users join the cloud-connected apps economy and new Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure comes online1.

To meet this burgeoning bandwidth demand, Cloud Data Centers are moving quickly to embrace 100G optical interconnects with an aggressive roadmap to 200G and 400G and beyond, executing a long-term strategy that drives down their average per-bit delivery costs. To date, however, 100G optical connectivity has been cost prohibitive for mainstream commercial adoption in Cloud Data Centers. Whereas telecom service providers can today justify the investment in 100G technology for decades-long deployment, Cloud Data Center operators will initiate network upgrades every three to five years, incrementally growing their bandwidth capacity at cost structures that are 1/5th of existing infrastructure.

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