Technologies and ProductsSemtech Corporation is now sampling its new Tri-Edge™ CDR, the GN2255, which enables emerging 50Gbps PAM4 5G front haul deployments. Based on the company’s Tri-Edge CDR platform for data centre applications, Semtech says the new solution delivers the cost effectiveness, small footprint, low power, ultra-low latency, and performance demanded by 5G front haul applications. Semtech […]
Technologies and ProductsInphi Corporation has launched its Polaris™ Gen2 PAM4 platform, which it claims is the industry’s first 50G, 28Gbaud PAM4 DSP solution based on low-power 7nm CMOS technology. Polaris Gen2 builds on the company’s Polaris Gen1 PAM4 platform, and provides higher levels of integration and lower power for high-performance hyperscale data centre, cloud computing and emerging […]
Technologies and ProductsLumentum is showing new products at the virtual ECOC 2020 event including its 100G PAM4 DMLs, latest HB-CDM variant, and new integrated coherent TROSA, which supports up to 69 Gbaud symbol. Additionally, the company has launched its high-performance datacom lasers chips which it says are now in significant production capacity. Lumentum Holdings Inc. said the company […]
Product FocusTektronix 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 ProductsSingapore-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 ProductsChip 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 ProductsMacom 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 ProductsHigh 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 ProductsTest 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 ProductsTeledyne 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 […]
MagazineGlobal 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 BusinessThe 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 ResearchGermany’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 ResearchOptical 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 ProductsA 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 BusinessQSFP-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, […]