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Tektronix Introduces the 8 Series Sampling Oscilloscope Platform with Support for 56GBd and 28GBd Applications

By Optical Connections News Team

Tektronix has recently announced the new 8 Series sampling platform, a disaggregated modular instrument series boasting parallel acquisition, with up to 4 channels per mainframe and the highest measurement accuracy for PAM4 optical signals on multiple inputs simultaneously. The 8 Series consists of the TSO820 Sampling Oscilloscope Mainframe, optical sampling modules, and TSOVu, a new […]

Technologies and Products

CompoundTek 106Gbps PAM4 MZI Si modulator reduces time-to-market

By Peter Dykes

Singapore-based CompoundTek, a global foundry services provider in emerging silicon photonics (SiPh) solutions, has announced the addition of a high-speed 106Gbps PAM4 MZI Si modulator to its portfolio. The company says the modulator offers customers capabilities in 400G/600G/800G applications and ‘extraordinary’ levels of productivity. Further minimising manufacturing risk with fewer respins, customers can expect improved […]

Technologies and Products

Semtech’s PAM4 CDR platform goes in to production

By Peter Dykes

Chip vendor Semtech Corporation has announced production availability of GN2558 and GN2559, its Tri-Edge™ CDR SR solutions to enable next-generation data centre multi-mode interconnectivity. The GN2558 is a quad PAM4 CDR with an integrated VCSEL driver, and the GN2559 is a quad PAM4 CDR with an integrated linear transimpedance amplifier (TIA). “Semtech has successfully demonstrated […]

Technologies and Products

MACOM launches TIAs covering 100G to 800G and components enabling 5G and data centres

By Peter Dykes

Macom has expanded its portfolio of transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) and launched a 25G APD photodiode and 25G Fabry-Perot laser photodiode, aimed at 5G applications and data centres. The MATA-009806 is a dual-channel linear TIA for coherent receivers supporting baud rates up to 96Gbaud and complex modulation formats such as 64QAM. With built-in automatic gain control […]

Technologies and Products

Inphi boosts PAM4 portfolio, intros new 800G DSP and Gen3 Porrima platform

By John Williamson

High speed data movement interconnect specialist Inphi Corp has announced it is sampling its new Spica™ 800G 7 nm PAM4 DSP, along with its new Porrima™ Gen3 Single-Lambda PAM4 platform. The new DSP product is billed as the world’s first 800 Gbps or 8 x 100 Gbps PAM4 DSP to enable 800G optical transceiver modules […]

Technologies and Products

ECOC 2019: Anritsu to demonstrate 116-Gbps PAM4 error detector

By Peter Dykes

Test equipment manufacturer Anritsu, will demonstrate its new PAM4 Error Detector module for its Signal Quality Analyser-R MP1900A Series PAM4 BERT on booth #28, at the ECOC Exhibition 2019 in Dublin, Ireland, from September 23 to 25 September 2019. With what the company claims is the world’s highest operation bit rate and Rx sensitivity, this […]

Technologies and Products

Teledyne LeCroy launches protocol analyser for testing PAM4 network and cloud products

By Matthew Peach

Teledyne LeCroy, a developer of protocol test solutions and a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Inc, has launched the SierraNet M648 protocol analysis and traffic impairment system, which it says is the first-to-market protocol analyser for 4 level Pulse Amplitude Modulation 50G Ethernet and 64G Fibre Channel interconnections. The SierraNet M648 includes a traffic impairment […]

Magazine

Magazine Feature: Adapting to a PAM4 World

By Antony Savvas

Global growth in cloud computing is driving demand for higher-performance infrastructure. And to keep pace with demand, developers are transitioning to 400G technologies to enable compact, faster and lower cost-per-bit solutions, writes Antony Savvas. Continue reading the article in our magazine

News and Business

Open Eye MSA targets hi-speed optical connectivity apps

By John Williamson

The Open Eye Consortium has announced the establishment of its Multi-Source Agreement (MSA), outlining its mission to standardise advanced specifications for lower latency, more power efficient and lower cost optical modules. The MSA is targeting 50 Gbits/s, 100 Gbits/s, 200 Gbits/s, and up to 400 Gbits/s optical modules for datacentre interconnects over single-mode and multimode […]

Applications and Research

Fraunhofer HHI in TERIPHIC terabit optical module drive

By John Williamson

Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute has announced its participation in the innovative EU-Horizon 2020 research project TERIPHIC. This project, which formally kicked off in Berlin in late January, is taking place against a background of efforts to develop optical interfaces with Terabit capacity for datacom applications. The Institute notes that a practical path to the […]

Applications and Research

ECOC: Oclaro Demos 100G Single Lambda Interoperability

By Peter Dykes

Optical communications solutions vendor Oclaro, has demonstrated interoperability of its 100G PAM4 electro-absorption modulated laser (EML) technology integrated into the 100G QSFP28 form factor the ECOC Exhibition in Rome. The transceiver was be part of the plug fest organised by the 100G Single Lambda Multi-Source Agreement (MSA). Oclaro also announced that sampling will begin later […]

Technologies and Products

MultiPhy details a 100G single-lambda PAM-4 chip

By Roy Rubenstein

A chip for 100-gigabit single-wavelength client-side optical modules has been unveiled by MultiPhy at ECOC 2017. Dubbed the MPF3101, the 100-gigabit physical layer chip is aimed at the data centre to connect equipment and for 5G cloud radio access networks. “The chip has already been sent out to customers and we are heading towards market […]

News and Business

QSFP-DD MSA Group announces form factor specification

By Matthew Peach

QSFP-DD module enables up to 400 Gbps solutions, quadruples bandwidth in network applications. The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement group has released a specification for the new QSFP-DD form factor. In total, 52 companies came together in support of the QSFP-DD MSA to address the industry need for high-density, […]