Optical

What's hot at #OFC23? How about pushing optical transmission to the next level? Fujitsu's Rich Colter gives us the update of Fujitsu's flagship 1FINITY Ultra Optical System. https://youtu.be/5vfGixZiJ9M

New 100ZR OSFP28 pluggables will change the access and aggregation infrastructure. Adtran’s Stephan Rettenberger explains. https://youtu.be/tpZq7uoPSo8

What's hot at #OFC23? Infinera's Tim Doiron gives us a rundown of the latest developments in coherent optical systems and pluggable solutions. https://youtu.be/KRviS1QsPu0

At #OFC23, MACOM introduced its 226Gbps per lane technology product family for enabling 1.6TB optical modules. The product family includes MACOM transimpedance amplifiers MATA-40734 and MATA-40736, Externally Modulated Laser (EML)...

Keysight, in collaboration with the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Riga Technical University (RTU), demonstrated the first 310 GBaud rates using on-off keying modulation...

At #OFC23, Broadcom announced sampling of its 5nm 100G/lane optical PAM-4 DSP PHY with integrated transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and laser driver. The new BCM85812, which is optimized for 800G DR8,...

The Open XR Forum demonstrated long-haul point-to-point transmission between QSFP56-DD coherent transceivers over 1,400 km at 400 Gb/s using 16QAM modulation, as well as error-free performance at 300 Gb/s using...

Adtran demonstrated its Coherent 100ZR QSFP28 coherent pluggable operating over a DWDM metro ring configured with equipment at the Adtran booth as well as the Coherent Corp. and OFCnet booths....

Infinera achieved a 400G single-wavelength transmission using a 400G QSFP-DD intelligent coherent pluggable across 2,400 km of Corning’s TXF optical fiber — double the previous record. The demonstration featured Infinera’s...

Infinera and Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier) announced a record-setting transmission of 400 Gb/s using a QSFP-DD pluggable coherent transceiver over 1,800 km of SMF-28 fiber in a live production network. ...

Windstream Wholesale completed a live network trial that transmitted a 1 Terabit wave over 541 km over its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) network between Dallas and Tulsa using digital...

The QSFP-DD Multi Source Agreement (MSA) plans to develop a new specification extending the bandwidth of the form factor to 1.6 Tbps. The new specification will leverage 200 Gbps serial...

Adtran completed a field trial of 800 Gbit/s single-carrier transport, achieving error-free transmission over a record distance of 2,220km in NYSERNet’s production network.  The test route passed through 14 route-and-select...