Technologies and Products

Ciena platform enables network functions for service providers and enterprises 

Ciena, working with partners, has developed a product for service providers to offer network functions that enterprises can select and configure with the click of a button. Dubbed Agility Matrix, the product enables enterprises to choose their IT and connectivity services using software running on servers. It also promises to benefit service providers’ revenues, enabling […]

New harsh environment fibre optic connectors 

The new Q-ODC-12 remote radio interface family from Huber+Suhner sets a new benchmark for outdoor environments. Global connectivity solutions company Huber+Suhner has set a new benchmark for outdoor fibre optic connectivity with the launch of its new Q-ODC-12 interface for industrial and FTTA applications. Designed to be the smallest and most robust products […]

New Few Mode Fibre Erbium Doped Amplifier 

MODE-GAP, the European collaborative R&D project investigating Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) to address the potential future capacity crunch within the telecommunications networks, has announced the launch of its latest product a Few Mode Fibre Erbium Doped Amplifier (FM-EDFA). The product, developed for the transmission experiments for the project, is the first of its kind to […]

Mellanox InfiniBand for High-Performance Supercomputer

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions, has announced that the Center for Biological and Sequence Analysis (CBS) at the Risø Campus of The Technical University of Denmark  (DTU) has selected Mellanox’s end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solution for the center’s new supercomputer, making Denmark a global leader in bioinformatics. Mellanox’s InfiniBand interconnect […]

Alcatel-Lucent moves its IP edge router functions onto servers

Alcatel-Lucent has re-architected its edge IP router functions to run on Intel x86 instruction-set servers. Moving the edge router functions onto standard servers promises to reduce the time it takes operators to launch services. Operators can also trial services quickly and then scale them according to demand, the company claims.  “It is taking […]

STMicro makes PSM4 its first silicon photonics product 

STMicroelectronics has revealed that its first silicon photonics product will be the 100-Gbps PSM4 optical engine. The 500m-reach PSM4 multi-source agreement (MSA) is a singlemode design that uses four parallel fibres in each direction.  “We have prototypes and can show them running very well at 40 Gig [4x10Gbps],” said Flavio Benetti, group vice […]

Huawei touts 100G TWDM-PON prototype

Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies is trying to steal a march on its optical access infrastructure rivals. Shortly after the first commercial 40G time and wavelength division multiplexed PON (TWDM-PON) product was unveiled, Huawei Technologies said it had gone one better, by creating a prototype 100G-PON optical access system.  Like the 40G system, Huawei’s […]

Ranovus targets 2015 for its optical interconnect technology

Start-up Ranovus expects to deliver its optical interconnect products in the first half of 2015. The company, which is developing WDM-based interfaces for use in and between data centres, recently raised $24 million (€18.9 million) in a second-stage funding round. The capital raised will be used to prepare the company’s technology for manufacturing […]

Infinera targets metro networks with Cloud Xpress

Optical transport vendor Infinera has unveiled Cloud Xpress, a metro-focused optical platform based on its photonic integrated circuit. The Cloud Xpress is optimized for the metro cloud, the transport network that interconnects multiple data centres within a metropolitan area. This move will enable Infinera to go after the Internet content providers, who are […]

Oclaro demos CFP2 module operating at 200G

The advent of a compact, pluggable CFP2 form factor module capable of multi-rate long-distance coherent optical transmission moved a step closer with a demonstration by Oclaro at the ECOC 2014 Exhibition in Cannes, France. The company showed a CFP2 transmitting data at 200 Gbps. The demonstration was of an “analogue” coherent optics (ACO) module, where […]

Terasquare unveils low-power reverse gearbox chip

Fabless semiconductor start-up Terasquare has unveiled a chip that it claims could drastically increase port density on line cards and thus save equipment space inside data centres.  The so-called reverse gearbox IC is the industry’s first chip to meet the OIF Multi-Link Gearbox (MLG) 2.0 standard, according to Terasquare’s CEO Jinho Park. The chip’s job […]