Technologies and ProductsInfinera says it has expanded its portfolio of open optical networking solutions with a suite of coherent optical pluggables designed to address point-to-point and point-to-multipoint transport applications from the network edge to the core. Leveraging its XR Optics technology, Infinera says the new suite of vertically integrated ICE-XR pluggables will offer network operators the performance, […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia has launched its WaveFabric Elements portfolio of photonic chips, devices and subsystems, including its fifth-generation coherent digital signal processor family, the Photonic Service Engine V (PSE-V). WaveFabric Elements portfolio combines digital signal processing (DSP) and optics technologies focused on emerging end-to-end 400G applications, allowing the company to optimise the entire electro-optic engine that powers […]
Technologies and ProductsThe Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (SFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) Group has announced the release of its first Management Interface Specification (MIS). The SFP-DD MIS may be used by 2-lane pluggable modules with host to module management communication based on a Two-Wire-Interface (TWI). Developed to allow host and module software implementers to utilize […]
News and BusinessThe Optical Internetworking Forum has announced that member companies are to demonstrate multi-vendor interoperability of Pluggable Coherent Optics, 56G Electrical Interfaces and for the first time, FlexE (Flex Ethernet) in live, operating environments. The demo will take place at OFC in Los Angeles from March 21-23, 2017. “It’s important for the industry that companies continue […]