Technologies and ProductsCoherent is demonstrating an optical transceiver module operating at 200 Gbps per optical lane, a co-packaged optical (CPO) multimode optical engine operating at 50 Gbps NRZ, and its 200G PAM4 Mach-Zehnder Modulated Laser Technology at this year’s OFC. The company says the pluggable and co-packaged modules embody the next generation of 800 Gbps and 1.6 […]
Technologies and ProductsTE Connectivity, in collaboration with Intel, is demonstrating its 224 Gbps PAM4 long reach development efforts at OFC 2023. The first demo consists of Intel’s 224 Gbps test chip addressing TE’s over-the-board (OTB) architecture consisting of a 224 near-chip cable assembly. TE’s 224 Gbps AdrenaLINE Catapult product helps enable premium signal integrity channels for near-chip […]
Technologies and ProductsCorning has unveiled its newest connectivity solution, the EDGE™ Distribution System. Designed to meet the ever-growing demand for information processing in the cloud, Corning says the pre-engineered data centre solution shortens installation time for server cabling by up to 70%, helps address shortages in skilled labour, and provides up to a 55% reduction in carbon […]
Technologies and ProductsRibbon Communications has announced the launch of its Apollo OT9408 platform, a next generation compact modular transport platform. The cost-optimised solution offers 400G transport for the majority of metro applications. Based on a wide selection of industry standard QSFP-DD pluggables, including OpenROADM interoperability for additional flexibility. It is designed for easy deployment and operation, including […]
News and BusinessInfinera has claimed two new world records for the transmission of 400G over long distances using its ICE-X pluggables. The first is with Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier) involving the transmission of 400 Gbps wavelengths using an ICE-X QSFP-DD pluggable coherent transceiver over 1,800 kilometres of SMF-28 fibre in a live production network. The point-to-point optical […]
Technologies and ProductsRANOVUS is demonstrating interoperability of AMD Versal adaptive SoCs with the co-packaged Odin® 800G direct-drive optical engine, and third party 800G DR8+ retimed pluggable modules at OFC. RANOVUS’ Odin® (pictured) is a low latency, high density, protocol agnostic, and standards-based optical interconnect engine with significant cost and power efficiencies. Built on GlobalFoundries Fotonix™ monolithic RF/CMOS […]
Technologies and ProductsAlbis Optoelectronics and HiLight Semiconductor have come together to demonstrate their latest 10G APD (Avalanche Photo Diode) and CMOS TIA-receiver products which when combined, offer negligible optical sensitivity penalties in the presence of localised high power Wi-Fi signal sources, say the companies,. Measurement results show less than 1 dB penalty for 5~6 GHz Wi-Fi and […]
Technologies and ProductsChina-based transceiver manufacturer Hyper Photonix Ltd, makes its entrance into the US optical transceiver market at OFC 2023, with a 400G QSFP-DD DR4 module, built on Hyper Silicon™ technology, which has a range of up to 2km. The company will also be demonstrating its family of 400 DR4 and ZR pluggable optical modules spanning 100G […]
Technologies and ProductsInfinera has come out with all guns blazing at OFC 2023, with an upgrade ICE series of optical engines, an expanded range of GX optical line systems, new subsystems including TROSA’s (Transmit Receive Optical Sub-Assemblies) and programmable DSP’s, as well as ICE-X coherent pluggable optical engines. ICE7 1.2 Tbps The ICE7 1.2 Tbps uses Infinera’s […]
Technologies and ProductsChipmaker Broadcom, will be demonstrating a prototype of its Tomahawk® 5 based 51.2T “Bailly” CPO system at OFC 2023, along with a fully functional Tomahawk® 4 based 25.6T “Humboldt” CPO system debuted at CIOE in September 2022. Both units were developed as a result of a strategic partnership with Tencent Holdings and are aimed at […]
Technologies and ProductsAyar Labs, is to demonstrate its 4Tbps bidirectional WDM optical solution at OFC. The solution, powered by Ayar’s SuperNova light source, moves data from one TeraPHY™ optical I/O chiplet to another at 2.048 Tbps in each direction,. SuperNova powers 8 fibre links, using 64 wavelengths operating at 32 Gbps, for 8 wavelengths and 256 Gbps […]
Technologies and ProductsQuantifi Photonics is to debut its Laser 1300 Series, a compact and scalable CW-WDM MSA-compliant laser test source at OFC. It is designed to enable the CW-WDM ecosystem and accelerate the adoption of multi-wavelength technology across emerging applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC) and high-density optics. The Laser 1300 Series integrates Ayar […]
Technologies and ProductsThe latest addition to the POLATIS all-optical switch portfolio from HUBER+SUHNER has been designed to provide operators with 80% more capacity than any other solution on the market. The POLATIS 576 has a matrix of 576×576 non-blocking fibre ports enables operators to remotely connect a greater number of fibres together in a compact form factor […]