OFC 2025 Panel: Million-GPU Clusters Push Networks to the Breaking Point
San Francisco – April 1, 2025- As AI clusters balloon toward the million-GPU mark, the optical and electrical interconnect industry ...
Ciena, HyperLight, McGill Demo 3.2Tbps IMDD using 448G/Lane
Ciena, HyperLight, and McGill University have achieved the industry’s first 3.2Tbps O-band IMDD transmission using eight 448Gbps lanes over a ...
Lumentum Launches 400G and 200G InP Optical Chips
Lumentum introduced new indium phosphide (InP) photonic chip technologies, including 400 Gbps-per-lane and 200 Gbps-per-lane optical links, along with ultra-high-power ...
Marvell Launches 1.6T and 800G AEC DSPs
Marvell is advancing short-reach interconnects for AI infrastructure with the launch of its 1.6T and 800G Alaska® A PAM4 DSPs ...
Semtech Pushes Toward 3.2T With 400G-Per-Channel PMD Work
Semtech introduced 200G per channel PMD (Physical Medium Dependent) ICs for 1.6T modules and developing 400G per channel solutions for ...
Cerebras + Ranovus = Wafer-Sale Compute + Co-Packaged Optics
Cerebras Systems has secured a new contract from DARPA to develop a next-generation real-time compute platform combining its wafer-scale engine ...
Open ROADM MSA Demos Multi-Vendor 800G Pluggables
At OFC 2025, members of the Open ROADM Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) demonstrated the first multi-vendor 800G pluggable ROADM link and ...
Eoptolink Demos 1.6T LRO Optical Transceivers
Eoptolink Technology is showcasing its 1.6T Linear Receive Optics (LRO) transceiver at OFC 2025, marking a step forward in power-efficient ...
Google’s Amin Vahdat: Networking Is the Bottleneck
San Francisco, March 31, 2025 — In a keynote at the Optica Executive Forum, Amin Vahdat, VP and Fellow at ...
Optica Executive Forum: Photonic-enabled Modules Heading to 1.6T and 3.2T
At the 2025 Optica Executive Forum in San Francisco, top industry voices from Ciena, Acacia, Coherent, Eoptolink, and TeraHop explored ...
Optica Executive Forum: Copper vs. Optical
At the 2025 Optica Executive Forum in San Francisco, industry leaders from MACOM, Marvell, Broadcom, and Astera Labs gathered to ...
Marvell Unveils 400G/lane PAM4 at 224Gbaud
Marvell Technology unveiled the industry’s first full 400G/lane electrical-to-optical link operating at 224 Gbaud, marking a milestone in PAM4-based connectivity. ...
Marvell Unveils 1.6T Silicon Photonics Pluggable
Marvell Technology has unveiled a 1.6T silicon photonics light engine designed for low-power, rack-scale optical interconnects in AI networks. Demonstrated ...
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