Newsletter – 18 March 2020

News and Business

Tektronix, Coherent Solutions partner for integrated optical comms platforms

By Peter Dykes

Tektronix and Coherent Solutions have announced an exclusive partnership agreement to provide fully-integrated optical communications platforms to new and existing customers in support of the growing global demand for communications across the telecom, datacom, defence/aerospace and semiconductor markets. “Tektronix and Coherent Solutions are strongly committed to providing industry-leading test and measurement solutions for high-bandwidth optical […]

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Infinera breaks industry record with 800G over 950km in live network trial

By Peter Dykes

Infinera has announced the successful completion of a live network trial of 800G single wavelength transmission at 96 Gbaud over 950 kilometres across a long-haul link in a major North American network operator’s production network. Powered by Infinera’s sixth generation dual-800G Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE6) technology, this achievement signals a major industry milestone in driving […]

Technologies and Products

Finisar Australia releases first Quad 4x1x9 wavelength selective switch

By Peter Dykes

Finisar Australia, the wholly-owned subsidioary of II-VI, has released what it claims is the world’s first quad 4x1x9 wavelength selective switch (WSS) for use in next-generation reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) communication networks. An extension of Finisar Australia’s twin low-profile liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) platform, the Flexgrid quad low-profile WSS integrates four independent WSS […]

Technologies and Products

Marvell Delivers Industry’s First Dual 400GbE PHY

By Peter Dykes

Marvell has introduced what it claims is the industry’s first dual 400GbE PHY transceiver with 100GbE serial electrical I/O capabilities, designed to drive next-generation, secured high-density optical infrastructure. The company says data growth continues to put unprecedented demand on data centres and cloud providers, spurring the need for innovative technologies that can provide higher throughputs […]

Technologies and Products

NeoPhotonics announces availability of 64GBaud High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator

By Peter Dykes

NeoPhotonics has announced general availability and volume production of its 64 GBaud High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator (HB-CDM). This CDM joins NeoPhotonics’ 64 GBaud Coherent Intradyne Receiver (ICR) and ultra-narrow linewidth tunable laser to enable single channel 600G data transmission over data centre interconnect (DCI) distances of approximately 80 km using 64 QAM. These components […]

News and Business

PCCW brings software-defined fibre offering to Australian market

By Antony Savvas

Console Connect, the software-defined connectivity platform from PCCW Global, has been launched into the Australian market. Console Connect competes against similar interconnetion technology from the likes of Megaport, Equinix and PackFabric. Customers can now use Console Connect in multiple data centres in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane. PCCW Global is the international operating division of HKT, […]

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Japanese mobile carrier picks Nokia optical gear for first 5G cloud-native network

By John Williamson

Japan’s newest mobile carrier, Rakuten Mobile, will deploy Nokia’s 1830 Photonic Service Switch to power its reconfigurable photonic mesh mobile backhaul network. The carrier is set to launch the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualised cloud-native 5G mobile network, and the deployment of Nokia’s coherent and optical component technologies is designed to enable the ready growth of network bandwidth […]

News and Business

CST Global extends its silicon photonics portfolio in collaboration with imec.

By Peter Dykes

Sivers IMA Holding AB, has announced that its photonics business unit, CST Global, in collaboration with its research and innovation partner, imec, is expanding its silicon photonics portfolio. The joint technology offering is expected to encourage the uptake of silicon photonics in cost-sensitive applications, including optical interconnects, optical sensing, cloud computing and beyond. Silicon photonics […]