OIF advances Common Management Interface Spec (CMIS)
The OIF has released a Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) Implementation Agreement (IA). CMIS provides a well-defined mechanism to initialize and ...
In Focus: OIF
🏛️ OIF Implementation Agreements for Optical Networking and High-Speed Interconnects | |
| OIF is an industry consortium that develops implementation agreements for interoperable optical networking, electrical signaling and high-speed interconnect technologies. Its work helps align suppliers and operators around practical specifications used in carrier networks, cloud data centers and emerging AI infrastructure. | |
| Why It Matters | OIF specifications and interoperability demonstrations help move advanced optical and electrical interface technologies from concept to deployable products. Converge Digest tracks OIF because its work directly shapes coherent optics, 800G/1.6T networking, co-packaged optics and next-generation AI data center connectivity. |
| Category | Industry Consortium |
| Mission | Develop interoperable implementation agreements for optical, electrical and control-plane technologies used in high-performance networks. |
| Focus Areas | Coherent optics • 800G and 1.6T interfaces • Common Electrical I/O • Co-packaged optics • Optical interconnects • Interoperability demonstrations |
| Key Members | Broadcom • Ciena • Cisco • Coherent • Intel • Marvell • Nokia • NVIDIA |
| Related Technologies | Coherent Optics • Co-Packaged Optics • Pluggable Optics • Silicon Photonics |
| Related Organizations | Ethernet Alliance • IEEE • Open Compute Project |
OIF’s Multi-vendor demonstration of Co-Packaged Optics (CPO)
Nathan Tracy, Vice President of Marketing for the OIF, gives a multivendor demonstration of OIF's 3.2T Module project and external ...
OIF Multivendor 400ZR Interoperability video
Karl Gass provides an overview of the OIF's 400ZR multivendor interoperability demonstration at OFC22 in San Diego, California.Two set-ups are ...
OIF advances 224G CEI
OIF launched four new CEI projects during its recent Q122 Technical and MA&E Committees meeting, which was held virtually in ...
OIF demos at at #OFC22: 400ZR interoperability; CPO; CEI-112, CMIS
OIF will host the following demonstrations at this year’s OFC 2022 in San Diego, March 8-10, 2022. Industry experts will ...
OIF publishes CEI-224G Framework Project white paper
OIF's CEI-224G framework project published a white paper summarizing the consensus findings and guidance for new OIF project starts for ...
OIF releases Co-Packaging Framework IA
OIF published a framework Implementation Agreement (IA) for co-packaging of communication and computing interfaces with one or more ASICs. The ...
OIF adopts Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS)
OIF has adopted the Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) work initiated by the Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density ...
OIF begins work on 112G-Extra Short Reach (XSR)+ project
OIF has initiated work on a new Common Electrical I/O (CEI) 112G Extra Short Reach (XSR)+ project that will allow ...
OIF’s IA for High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator — 800G and up
OIF announced an Implementation Agreement (IA) for High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator (HB-CDM) 2.0. This IA builds upon the HB-CDM ...
OIF’s 3.2T Co-packaged Optics Module Project
COBO/OIF Board Member Jeff Hutchins discusses the industry's Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) collaboration with regards to the OIF's recently launched 3.2T ...
OIF initiates 3 projects, including co-packaged optics external laser module
OIF initiated three new projects, including a Co-Packaged Optics external laser module, Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Enhanced Network Operations and ...
OIF begins 3.2T Co-Packaged Module Project for data center switching
OIF started a 3.2T Co-Packaged Module project for intra data center switching applications. The 3.2T Co-Packaged Optical Module Implementation Agreement ...
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