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ECOC 2023: OIF to achieve milestone with largest ever multi-vendor interoperability demo

By Peter Dykes

OIF is planning to showcase its largest-ever multi-vendor interoperability demonstration at ECOC 2023, being held October 2-4 in Glasgow, Scotland. 39 companies will participate in live and static interoperability demos at OIF’s booth #304, highlighting advancements in four key technology areas: 400ZR+ optics, Co-Packaging solutions, Common Electrical I/O (CEI) CEI-112G & CEI-224G channels and Common […]

Technologies and Products

Arelion, trials multi-vendor Routed Optical Networking

By Peter Dykes

Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier), has trialled converged IP and optical networking layers over multiple, third-party, open line systems, using equipment from Acacia and Cisco. On a live fibre route with existing ROADM infrastructure between Hamburg and Copenhagen, Arelion successfully leveraged Acacia Bright 400ZR+ QSFP-DD coherent modules with greater than +1 dBm transmit power between Cisco […]

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Optical transport market worth US$18 billion by 2025 – report

By Peter Dykes

According to July 2021 update of Dell’Oro’s Optical Transport Market 5-Year Forecast report, the Optical Transport market, largely driven by WDM equipment, is forecasted to increase in size annually for the next five years, reaching nearly US$18 billion. This forecast update is unchanged from the company’s previous forecast. Dell’Oro has lowered its outlook for WDM […]

Technologies and Products

NeoPhotonics brings QSFP-DD, OSFP 400ZR modules to market

By Peter Dykes

NeoPhotonics has announced that its QSFP-DD and OSFP 400ZR pluggable modules are generally available and are shipping to customers. These pluggables feature NeoPhotonics’ Silicon Photonics Coherent Optical Subassembly (COSA), low power consumption and a ultra-narrow linewidth Nano-ITLA tuneable laser, combined with the latest generation of 7nm node DSP technology. They provide full 400ZR transmission in […]

Technologies and Products

ADVA’s new 400ZR DCI OLS

By Peter Dykes

ADVA has launched the FSP 3000 data centre interconnect (DCI) open line system (OLS) specifically designed for 400ZR technologies. ADVA says the device addresses the most urgent challenges for network operators by enabling commercial deployments of DCI infrastructure based on 400ZR. High-density, cost-effective, open solutions that are optimised for point-to-point applications up to 120km, will […]

Product Focus

NeoPhotonics Demo’s 400 Gbps over 800km

By Peter Dykes

NeoPhotonics Corporation has demonstrated that its 400ZR+ QSFP-DD coherent pluggable transceiver can effectively transmit at a 400 Gbps data rate over a distance of 800 km in a 75 GHz-spaced DWDM system with more than 3.5 dB of OSNR margin in the optical signal. The transceiver module is based on NeoPhotonics high-performance coherent optics and […]

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Windstream Wholesale, Acacia set new 400G ZR+ record

By Peter Dykes

Windstream Wholesale has completed a live network trial that successfully deployed 400 Gbps single-wavelength transmission over 1,027 kilometres across Windstream’s long-haul network between Phoenix and Los Angeles. The trial set a real-world benchmark of 400G using Acacia Communications’ digital coherent optics technology. Windstream also set another industry record by looping back the signal to achieve […]

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Compact modular grows faster than overall optical market in 3Q20 – report

By Peter Dykes

Global compact modular revenue grew 24% in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20) over the prior year, versus just 7% growth for the total optical market, according to the latest Transport Applications Report from market research firm Cignal AI. Cignal AI defines “compact modular” as small form factor optical hardware that is designed for use […]

Technologies and Products

Verizon Media taps Inphi for 400ZR trial

By Peter Dykes

Inphi Corporation and Verizon Media have successfully validated a seamless upgrade from 100GbE QSFP28 optics, using Inphi’s COLORZ®, to 400GbE QSFP-DD over the same production Open Line System, using Inphi’s COLORZ® II. The demonstration consisted of adding a 400ZR from an Arista 400G switch into a 100GHz DWDM channel without affecting any of the existing […]

Technologies and Products

NeoPhotonics, Inphi complete 400ZR interop demo over 120km

By Peter Dykes

Inphi and NeoPhotonics have jointly completed the industry’s first interoperability demonstration of OIF 400ZR Implementation Agreement compliant coherent transceivers, operating successfully across the C-Band over 120km of optical fibre. Transceiver pairs consisting of Inphi’s COLORZ® II QSFP-DD with its Canopus™ 7nm Coherent DSP and NeoPhotonics 400ZR ClearLightTM OSFP were successfully linked. Both 400ZR coherent optics […]

Applications and Research

NeoPhotonics demo’s 90km 400ZR transmission at 25.6 Tbps per fibre capacity

By Peter Dykes

NeoPhotonics has completed experimental verification of the transmission of 400Gbps data over data centre interconnect (DCI) ZR distances in a 75 GHz spaced DWDM channel. The company says it achieved two milestones using its interoperable pluggable 400ZR coherent modules and its specially designed athermal arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexers (MUX) and de-multiplexers (DMUX). First, data […]

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OIF publishes 400ZR implementation agreement

By Peter Dykes

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has published an Implementation Agreement (IA) for a 400ZR coherent optical interface. This IA, is the first OIF project focuses on interoperability at a specific distance, and is available now for all to download. “As a member driven organisation, OIF’s work toward the 400ZR IA was the combination of significant […]

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II-VI debuts industry’s first Pluggable Optical Line Subsystem (POLS) for 400ZR

By Peter Dykes

II‐VI Incorporated has announced the introduction of the industry’s first pluggable optical line subsystem (POLS) platform to enable the emerging 400ZR coherent transceiver ecosystem for next-generation datacentre interconnects (DCIs). II-VI says the rapid growth of cloud computing is driving the upgrade cycle from 100G to 400G transmission in DCIs, and spurring the demand for innovative […]

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Acacia ramps up 400G Portfolio

By Peter Dykes

Acacia Communications has announced it is sampling multiple variants in its family of 400G pluggable optical transceiver modules including 400ZR, OpenZR+, and Open ROADM MSA. Acacia’s 400G pluggable module family features an expansive list of interoperability solutions in QSFP-DD, OSFP and CFP2-DCO pluggable form factors for cloud data centre interconnects (DCIs) and service provider networks. […]

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II-VI debuts IC-TROSA 64 Gbaud coherent subassembly for 400ZR QSFP-DD

By Peter Dykes

II‐VI has announced the introduction of its 64 Gbaud integrated coherent transmitter-receiver optical subassembly (IC-TROSA), which it claims is the industry’s first, for the 400ZR standard in datacentre interconnects. II-VI says the rapid growth in transmission capacity requirements in optical backbone networks and between datacentres is driving the demand for next-generation transmission platforms that can […]

Technologies and Products

NeoPhotonics samples 400ZR OSFP coherent transceivers for cloud DCI

By John Williamson

Hybrid photonic IC-based module and subsystem specialist NeoPhotonics Corp has sampled its new 400ZR ClearLight™ OSFP transceiver to a leading but unnamed cloud-related customer. The product utilises NeoPhotonics’ Silicon Photonics Coherent Optical Subassembly (COSA) and low power consumption, ultra-narrow linewidth Nano-ITLA tunable laser, along with 7 nm node DSP technology. This combination provides full 400ZR […]

Applications and Research

ECOC 2019: OIF showcases 400ZR, CEI-112G and IC-TROSA interoperability demos

By Peter Dykes

OIF member companies will showcase their industry leadership with a multi-vendor interoperability demonstration of 400ZR, Common Electrical I/O (CEI)-112G and IC-TROSA during ECOC 2019. OIF has also been selected to lead Market Focus presentation on deployment of the 400ZR ecosystem Demonstrating how critical interoperability work gets done, 12 OIF member companies including ADVA, Amphenol, Cadence […]