By the Chinese Internet community known as silicon valley godfather of American "wired" magazine founder Kevin kelly, scheduled for December 5 speech in Shanghai was revealed in micro the letter today. Browse the PPT, there are two words to edit the most impressive, "all the hardware in the future will be like software work" and "all hardware is software". We are in the light of the device industry is a typical hardware industry, so how to understand the software of optical device products.

Kevin kelly to accurately predict the Internet of things, the network community, the emergence of cloud computing, etc. About hardware products of software can predict the accurate? In the optical communication industry, transmission network SDN is actually a representative of hardware software. From the concept of SDN is put forward, the editor at thinking, specific to the component level, SDN what effect? In other words, how light device software? The editor this problem mentioned on micro letter, also got some friend's response.

Zhenjiang aurelio Chen has just won the award for the software of zhenjiang celebrity. Chen said it is not because do light device aurelio to do software products, but because aurelio products of more and more software components. He thought the intelligent network is the basis of the software, the ascension of the proportion of embedded software is the development direction of optical components and subsystems. The future of optical devices will be part of the link, can realize self awareness, self control.

Beijing Rio puguang shen total software for optical device of research shows a clear definition, was the light of flexible and custom components. Device features in the future will be defined by the software, according to the different functions of software instructions to complete.

Edit the appreciate this definition, but also can not help but ask, optical device technology can meet this requirement. It should be said that the more complex optical device, the greater the chance of close to this requirement. The application of multi-rate now light module, for example, such as reconfigurable ROADM, partially implemented software defined requirements. In optical component industry, one of the most famous flexible optical device when the JDSU company is put forward. Years ago they introduced a flexible component products for different application requirements. But even so, the real distance software definition also are very far apart. In edit view, many optical devices based on traditional optical technology is difficult to implement custom software, even if can realize part of integration.

Silicon photonics technology development for the software custom optical device is likely to open up a new direction. Silicon-based waveguide structure in the future probably can choose according to the software instructions, so as to realize the optical devices of different functions. From this Angle to see, silicon photonics is really important to the development of optical devices in the future.

This time come to China, Kevin kelly toastmasters the tickets were sold for 3000 yuan. The prediction of the Internet era master with his acute observation, of the industry of science and technology trends accurately grasp the world famous. Presumably he may not necessarily be familiar with optical communication technology, but it does not interfere with his forecast for the whole of science and technology industry, including optical communication. Software and hardware product is intelligent hardware products, is a more flexible hardware, hardware can be defined. Optical device industry when efforts for it.