News and BusinessOIF concluded its hybrid Q3 Technical and MA&E Committees meeting, August 8-10 in Vancouver, BC, Canada, with the launch of four new projects. OIF says its 224G PAM4 protocol agnostic link training for electrical interfaces project will define communication method, messaging format and contents, training patterns, states and sequences, diagnostics and fault handling, etc. for […]
News and BusinessOIF 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 […]
News and BusinessOIF has unveiled the External Laser Small Form-Factor Pluggable (ELSFP) Implementation Agreement (IA), defining a front panel pluggable form factor tailored to co-packaged optical systems and other multiple laser external laser source applications. The ELSFP IA introduces the first multi-sourced future-proof front panel pluggable external laser source form factor to address the evolving needs of […]
News and BusinessIn its first project under the umbrella of the Co-packaging Framework Document, the OIF has launched an industry-first, the OIF-Co-Packaging-3.2T-Module-01.0 – Implementation Agreement (IA) for a 3.2Tbps Co-Packaged (CPO) Module defines a 3.2T co-packaged module that targets Ethernet switching applications utilising 100G electrical lanes and provides backward compatibility with 50G lanes. The module definition can […]
News and BusinessGlobal industry forum OIF, has released a framework implementation agreement for co-packaging, identifying the critical co-packaged applications and their requirements, and charting a path for interoperability standards. The Co-Packaging track of OIF’s Physical & Link Layer (PLL) Working Group began by studying the application spaces contributed by the end-users. Then, it examined various related topics, […]
Technologies and ProductsThe 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 […]
Applications and ResearchOIF 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 […]
News and BusinessAt this year’s Optical Interworking Forum’s (OIF) 3Q19 Technical and MA&E committees meeting in Montreal, Canada, the organization announced the launch of two new projects; a higher baud rate coherent driver modulator and a white paper detailing low-rate service multiplexing using FlexE and 400ZR. The Higher Baud Rate Coherent Driver Modulator project will define a […]
Applications and ResearchConsortium Also Launches Requirements for Integrated Packet Optical SDN Project On November 30, experts from the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) will participate in the Lightwave Open Optical webcast series to discuss the results of OIF’s 2018 SDN T-API multi-vendor interoperability demonstration. The collaborative demo, “Assuring Open Optical Networking Interoperability” took place earlier this year. It showcased new […]
Applications and ResearchAiring Results At NGON & DCI 2018 Show Aims To Speed Commercialisation of Transport SDN In June the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) will stage public read-out events to present the results of the 2018 Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Transport Application Programming Interface (T-API) interoperability demonstration. This year’s demo, in collaboration with the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), […]
News and BusinessFocused on accelerating the commercialization of transport SDN, leading global network operators and vendors will test new, more dynamic use cases. Committed to accelerating the commercialization of transport SDN worldwide, the Optical Internetworking Forum has announced plans for its 2018 Software-Defined Networking Transport Application Programming Interface interoperability demonstration. In collaboration with MEF, this year’s demonstration […]
Technologies and ProductsThe Optical Internetworking Forum has started specification of a new analogue coherent optics specification that will fit within a CFP8 pluggable module. The CFP8 is the latest is a series of optical modules specified by the CFP Multi-Source Agreement and will support the emerging 400 Gigabit Ethernet standard. The analogue coherent optics (ACO) module is […]