Thursday, September 20, 2018

Alibaba Cloud consolidates its no.1 position in China

Presented this week at the Alibaba Group Investor Day conference. ...

Telia Carrier to offer Cloud Connect service in TierPoint's data centers

Telia Carrier will offer its Cloud Connect service across 25 TierPoint data centers in the U.S. across 14 metro areas, including Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Connecticut, Dallas, Kansas City, Milwaukee,  Nashville, New York, Omaha, Philadelphia, Raleigh, St. Louis, and Seattle. Telia Carrier’s Cloud Connect provides multiple, geographically diverse connections to the world’s largest cloud providers, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google and IBM. Customers...

ECOC 2018: First COBO-compliant optical modules

The world’s first optical modules compliant with Consortium for On-Board Optics (COBO) will be shown at next week's ECOC Exhibition 2018 in Rome, Italy. Specifically, COBO will present a showcase of solutions from Molex, Ciena and SENKO, TE Connectivity, Credo, and AOI. A goal of COBO is to bring interoperable and interchangeable optical modules into the manufacturing of networking equipment to help address industry challenges, including continual...

ECOC 2018: Acacia presents 600 Gbps per Wavelength Coherent Transmission

At the upcoming the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) in Rome, Acacia Communications will demonstrate its AC1200 coherent module with dual-core design enabling 1.2 Tbps error-free transmission over fiber with 600 Gbps per wavelength. The Acacia AC1200 module supports transmission capacity of up to 1.2 Tbps in a footprint that is 40 percent less than the size of the 5” x 7” modules that support transmission speeds of 400 Gbps today. The...

ECOC 2018: Foxconn Interconnect Technology shows 400 Gbps interconnects

Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) will showcase its latest 400 Gbps interconnect solutions in featured product and technology demonstrations at ECOC 2018. Specifically, live traffic demonstrations will incorporate a selection of FIT's 400G QSFP-DD interconnect solutions that include various configurations of optics, cables, cages and connectors that combine to deliver 400 Gbps solutions. "FIT is committed to the development of 400G PAM4 based...

ECOC 2018: eSilicon to show 7nm 56G PAM4 long-reach SerDes

eSilicon plans to demonstrate the silicon performance of its 7nm 56G long-reach SerDes during ECOC 2018 (Anritsu booth #408). eSilicon will show a periodic pattern generator (PPG)-to-chip live demo with different backplane reaches. Specifically, the demonstration will show 56G PAM4 data transfer running at 56Gb/s over two different BERTSCOPE channels with two different reaches, both driven by the Anritsu MP1900A Signal Quality Analyzer-R using a...

ECOC 2018: Semtech exhibits CDR platform for 25G SFP28 SR modules and AOCs

At ECOC 2018, Semtech will highlight multiple products including its ClearEdge CDR platform for low-cost 25G SFP28 SR modules and Active Optical Cables. Semtech will also feature its laser drivers, limiting amplifiers, ROSAs, signal conditioners, transceivers, and transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs). Semtech supplies high-speed optical transceiver ICs and offers optical networking solutions that support multiple next-generation PAM4 and NRZ connectivity...

ECOC 2018: Go!Foton shows its latest fiber management hub

At ECOC 2018, Go!Foton will showcase the newest member of its line of "PEACOC" high-density fiber management solutions. The new PEACOC Fiber Distribution Hub (FDH) is designed to be utilized beyond central offices and data centers. “The PEACOC FDH reinvents the concept of OSP cable management, by providing open, front-side access to all of the operating assets including cabling, splices and optical components,” said Michael Zammit, VP and GM of...

ECOC 2018: InnoLight demos 400G QSFP-DD DR4

InnoLight Technology, which is based in Suzhou, China, will demonstrate a 400G QSFP-DD DR4 interoperating with 100G single lambda DR1 at ECOC 2018. In addition, InnoLight will introduce its family of 400G optical transceivers, including 400G OSFP, 400G QSFP-DD and 100G QSFP28 single lambda optical products. Innolight's current and upcoming products include: OSFP SR8, QSFP-DD SR8, QSFP28 DR1, OSFP 2XFR4, QSFP-DD DR4/DR4+, QSFP28 FR1, OSFP DR4/DR4+, ...

ECOC 2018: II-VI to show twin flexband 1xN WSS, OTDR

II-VI, a vertically integrated manufacturing company based in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania and offering optoelectronic products, plans to showcase its products for ROADM line cards and highly compact optical amplifier solutions tailored to enable high bit rate DWDM transceivers. These will include: The twin flexband 1xN WSS powered by the Gen-2 LightFlow(TM) switch engine with 12.5 GHz bandwidth granularity for next-generation coherent long haul and...