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Credo Technology Group introduced its new Sparrow 800G gearbox and Heron 1.6T retimer/gearbox devices. The new Sparrow and Heron devices are built around Credo’s core low-power, high-performance DSP technology to offer improved line card functionality. The devices deliver the increased bandwidth, improved power, and cost efficiency required to support the large, growing data infrastructure market. […]
FiberLight, which operates more than 17,000 miles of fiber networks in more than 30 U.S. metropolitan areas, has again selected the modular Fujitsu 1FINITY platform to enhance their high-bandwidth fiber network. Upgrades include deployment of 1FINITY T700 transport blades and L130/ L140 ROADM blades to empower improved performance, efficiency and speeds up to 400G. Fujitsu […]
Source Photonics announced commercial release of its full Passive Optical Network (PON) Product Portfolio for OLT and ONUs. The PON products use the company’s in-house vertically integrated optical chips and optics assembly. The XGSPON OLT E2 and Combo OLT Class D transceiver solutions incorporate the in-house developed EA-DFB Laser monolithically integrated with SOA supporting a […]
Lumentum and Ayar Labs announced a strategic collaboration agreement to deliver CW-WDM MSA compliant external laser sources in high volume. “Co-packaged optics to replace traditional copper interconnects is a massive new market opportunity broadly recognized by the industry and one that Lumentum is well-positioned to address with our proven laser technologies and manufacturing scale,” said […]
Orange Business Services and Fortinet are partnering to deliver a disruptive approach to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) by integrating Fortinet’s Security-driven Networking technologies into the Orange telco cloud infrastructure. This next chapter in the Orange-Fortinet partnership, which has also yielded Flexible SD-WAN based on Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, provides the foundation for cloud-native transformations at […]
On Wednesday, March 9 SpaceX launched 48 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the fourth launch and landing of this Falcon 9 first stage booster, which previously launched Arabsat-6A, STP-2, and COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2. It was the 10th […]
Windstream Wholesale completed 1000 km 400G field trials leveraging pluggable modules from II-VI with QSFP-DD-DCO optics that achieve a high transmit power of 0dBm. The trials demonstrated unprecedented performance with strong working margins over a production network route and traversing up to 24 ROADMs in a lab environment. During the field trial, Windstream Wholesale closed […]
It comes as no surprise that one of the hottest topics from the past 3 years is still a hot topic at #OFC22. 400ZR is ramping with new applications now coming on, says Tom Williams, Vice President, Acacia – now part of Cisco. https://youtu.be/yeLAD_T4Hzc
ADVA introduced a new pluggable MicroMux Edge BiDi device for 10GbE connectivity deployments in wireless and wireline access networks. The standards-compliant QSFP+ device offers four independent and bidirectional 10GbE optical interfaces. It supports single-fiber operations and provides up to 40km reach. The device ensures the same latency in both the transmit and receive directions, preventing […]
David Park, CEO of LIPAC, introduces a new methodology of assembling any type of photonic and electrical ICs in a single package form factor using Advanced Semiconductor Packaging technology such as FOWLP. This new methodology is called Optical System in Package, or O-SiP in short. https://youtu.be/f749YdjA9iY
Eoptolink Technology launched QSFP-DD 400G ZR and ZR+ transceivers for DCI and metro applications. Eoptolink 400G QSFP56-DD ZR transceiver module is capable of transmission distances up to 120km and compliant to the OIF 400G ZR standard, while 400G QSFP56-DD ZR+ transceiver module is capable of transmission distances up to 480km and compliant to the Open […]
Eoptolink Technology introduced QSFP28 100G single lambda PAM4 transceivers for industrial temperature range (-40⁰C to +85⁰C) and designed for use in 500m, 2km and 10km 100 Gigabit Ethernet links over single-mode fiber. They support the IEEE802.3 100GBase standard. Eoptolink says the extended temperature range performance becomes more critical as 100G PAM4 transceivers move closer to […]
Source Photonics confirmed that its 800G QSFP-DD800 and OSFP transceivers are ready for pre-production. Source Photonics 800G PAM4 OSFP/QSFP-DD800 optical transceivers incorporates the in-house vertically integrated 53G EML laser chips and the state-of-the-art 7nm 800G DSP chip for lowest power consumption. It provides various optical fiber connector choices, a smooth transition from single to dual […]
