21 November 2011

Kotura receives New Product Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan

At Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 Excellence in Best Practices Awards Banquet in San Antonio, TX, Kotura Inc of Monterey Park, CA, USA, which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for the communications, computing, sensing and detection markets, has received a New Product Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan for its variable optical attenuator (VOA) for optical communications. The firm’s Ultra VOA Array is a variable optical attenuation system that enables new optical networking functions like wavelength tracking and transient control.

The Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards are based on independent, primary analyst research, and recognize unique innovations, commendable leadership, successful business strategies and industry best practices. For the New Product Innovation Awards, five criteria are used to benchmark products against competitors: innovative element of the product, leading-edge product technologies, value-added features/benefits, increased customer return on investment, and customer acquisition/penetration potential.

“Kotura’s use of silicon photonics makes their offering unique in the market, allowing them to bring performance and functionality advantages,” comments Frost & Sullivan research analyst Jacek Debowski. “Their Ultra VOA Array device provides benefits to the communications industry by enhancing the capabilities of fiber-based interconnect systems to address the ever-growing requirements for faster optical communications,” he adds.

Kotura’s Ultra VOA was born out of the growing requirement to better manage the optical channels in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) networks. Manufactured using a standard CMOS process, “The Ultra VOA Array is an example of successful implementation of silicon photonics technology in a commercial application,” Debowski says.

“To recognize the technology behind our Ultra VOA gives us great satisfaction as we continue our development of next-generation silicon photonics products,” says Kotura’s president & CEO Jean-Louis Malinge.

Kotura claims to be one of the largest suppliers of VOAs, offering Ultra VOAs in versions supporting 1, 4 and 8 channels. The firm says that its technology platform enables to integrate more functionality on a single chip, resulting in high-performance solutions with a small form factor.

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