Technologies and ProductsII‐VI has completed the development of its Steelerton™ digital signal processor (DSP) for 100 Gbps coherent transmission in optical access and aggregation networks. The company says the development of the DSP is in response to the growth of 5G wireless and high-speed broadband services that is driving the explosive demand for coherent transceiver technology optimised […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia has launched its WaveFabric Elements portfolio of photonic chips, devices and subsystems, including its fifth-generation coherent digital signal processor family, the Photonic Service Engine V (PSE-V). WaveFabric Elements portfolio combines digital signal processing (DSP) and optics technologies focused on emerging end-to-end 400G applications, allowing the company to optimise the entire electro-optic engine that powers […]
News and BusinessLightCounting has updated its forecast for sales of Coherent and PAM4 DSP chipsets, saying the market for optical interface IC chipsets is reaching an inflection point now and is projected to grow at 20% CAGR in 2020-2024, as illustrated in the figure below. Sales of PAM4 DSP chipsets for applications in Ethernet transceivers and AOCs […]
Technologies and ProductsData interconnect vendor Inphi Corporation has announced it is sampling its new Canopus™ coherent Digital Signal Processor (DSP), which it claims is the industry’s first merchant 7nm coherent DSP. Canopus provides low power and high density QSFP-DD, OSFP and CFP2-DCO coherent pluggable modules for cloud and telecom customers. Inphi says Canopus makes high density IP […]
Technologies and ProductsIn preparation for the roll-out of its state-of-the-art Bavarian WDM network, German operator M-net has become the first carrier to trial Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE 3) coherent digital signal processing technology. The PSE-3 is the first DSP to implement probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS), a complex signal processing technique pioneered by Bell Labs which […]