Technologies and ProductsOpen networking systems developer Edgecore Networks has announced the introduction of Minipack, which it describes as the industry’s first open modular switch for 100G and 400G networking, conforming to the Minipack Fabric Switch design contributed today by Facebook to the Open Compute Project. Minipack is a disaggregated whitebox system providing a flexible mix of 100GbE […]
Technologies and ProductsEkinops, a supplier of optical transport equipment and router solutions for service providers and telecom operators, has announced the release of its latest optical white box networking solutions, the RM ROADM-H4-WB and RM ROADM-H10-WB at this year’s OFC Conference in San Diego. These open-source, standards-based ROADMs are tailored to the needs of Flexgrid networks, allowing […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation, which designs and manufactures advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based modules, has announced at OFC the limited availability of its Nano ultra-compact external cavity integrated tunable laser assembly (ITLA). The Nano-ITLA is based on the same high-performance external cavity architecture as NeoPhotonics’ Micro-ITLA product line. Further, the Nano-ITLA maintains comparable ultra-narrow linewidth, low frequency […]
Applications and ResearchGermany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute has announced its participation in the innovative EU-Horizon 2020 research project TERIPHIC. This project, which formally kicked off in Berlin in late January, is taking place against a background of efforts to develop optical interfaces with Terabit capacity for datacom applications. The Institute notes that a practical path to the […]
Technologies and ProductsApplied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI), a provider of fibre-optic access network products for the internet datacentre, cable broadband, telecom, and FTTH markets, has announced customer sample availability of 400G optical modules based on silicon-photonics technology. The modules are designed to demonstrate the feasibility of applying AOI’s silicon photonics platform to the requirements of on-board optics (OBO), […]
Applications and ResearchAcacia Communications has announced the first 400G single carrier DWDM transmission on the 6,600 km Marea submarine cable between Virginia Beach, USA, and Bilbao, Spain. The field demonstration was conducted by Acacia in collaboration with Microsoft and Facebook, and helped to demonstrate that improvements in capacity and spectral efficiency can enable increased utilisation of deployed […]
Applications and Research“Record-breaking” superchannel in a single-photodiode 110-GHz Kramers-Kronig receiver. Berlin’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI has developed a distributed superchannel aggregation scheme to demonstrate ultra-wideband single-photodiode reception based on inherently polarization-aligned Kramers-Kronig carrier generation at the receiver. For optimized conditions, a record net capacity of 400 Gb/s was achieved using a distributedly aggregated superchannel of 3×33 […]
News and BusinessScientists have first analyzed and compared the cost evolution and power consumption of different 400-gigabit-per-second (400G) optical transceivers, providing guidelines for device vendors and users regarding the best choice high-speed transceivers for next-generation data centers. The international team of researchers will present their techno-economic evaluation results at OFC 2018, 11-15 March, San Diego, California, USA. […]
News and BusinessA new multi-source agreement (MSA) group was announced at the ECOC show to speed up the market introduction of 400-gigabit client-side optical interfaces. The CWDM8 MSA is described by its members as a pragmatic approach to provide 400-gigabit modules to coincide with the emergence of next-generation switches in 2018. The CWDM8 MSA uses eight wavelengths […]
News and BusinessThe industry knows what the next-generation 400-gigabit client-side interfaces will look like but uncertainty remains regarding what form factors to use. So says Simon Stanley, analyst-at-large at Heavy Reading and principal consultant at Earlswood Marketing, and author of the report: From 25/100G to 400/600G: A Competitive analysis of Optical Modules and Components. Implementing the desired […]
News and BusinessVisitors to OFC 2017 have the opportunity to meet with Macom Technology Solutions and learn how the company’s portfolio of products is addressing the high-performance analog interfaces between electrical and optical domains. Macom is providing solutions to meet the demanding size, power and signal integrity requirements of high-speed networks that are expanding to meet the […]