Austria completes 5G auction in 3.4 - 3.8 GHz band

Austria concluded an auction of 5G spectrum in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band. Licenses were acquired by the three leading operators (A1, Hutchinson, T-Mobile) as well as some smaller players. In total, 438 out of a total of 468 frequency packages (39 packages of 10 MHz each, in twelve regions) were auctioned for a total price of around EUR 188 million. The auction lasted over three weeks. T-Mobile Austria acquired 110 MHz of spectrum throughout the country...

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Huawei announces 50G PON prototype

Huawei announced a single-wavelength 50G passive optical network (PON) prototype. The new unit provides 50 Gbps downstream transmission rates and 25 Gbps/50 Gbps upstream transmission rates over a single wavelength. Huawei's design is based on mature 25G optical components. It achieves 50 Gbps transmission rates over a single wavelength through fiber dispersion compensation and transmitter/receiver bandwidth compensation technologies on the physical...

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Sicoya to build silicon photonics packaging factory in China

Sicoya GmbH, which specializes in monolithically integrated Silicon Photonics, announces the build of a new factory in Tianjin, China focusing on assembly and test of optical transceivers and engines. The factory installation includes anti-vibration foundations and clean room facilities that will allow the factory to perform CMOS wafer level post-processing steps and downstream packaging processes. Sicoya says the facility will serve the Chinese...

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Source Photonics expands data center and routing portfolio

Source Photonics has expanded its portfolio of single-mode products for datacenter and routing applications. The new products leverage the company’s multi-year investment in 28Gbaud and 53Gbaud PAM4 developments and support applications such as the 400G DR4, FR4 and LR8, 100G DR/FR, and 50G LR and ER. In addition, Source Photonics also announces the availability of its second-generation 100G QSFP28 CWDM4. “Source Photonics led the market deployment...

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Spirent showcases 400/200/100/50 GigETes Test System

At OFC, Spirent Communications showcased its 8-port 1U-rack-mountable 400/200/100/50 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) test system. The system claims to be the world’s highest density QSFP-DD test solution. It is designed to validate the forwarding performance and Quality of Service (QoS) of high-scale, next-generation-enabled, multi-terabit routers and switches, all contained in a single rack space. Spirent is also showing the world’s highest-density native...

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Semtech expands its EPON portfolio

Semtech introduced a combo chip and a multi-rate burst mode Transimpedance Amplifier (TIA) for 10G EPON Optical Line Terminals (OLTs). “The upsurge in the 10G EPON market is expected to continue and we believe these products will help drive this growth,” said Dr. Timothy Vang, Vice President of Marketing and Applications for Semtech’s Signal Integrity Products Group. “Our engineering team has produced another unique chipset that delivers higher...

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MaxLinear cites momentum with its PAM4 DSP for 400G modules

Delta, a global supplier of power and thermal management solutions, has selected MaxLinear’s Telluride PAM4 DSP to develop its next-generation 400G-DR4 optical module. Delta’s proprietary single mode TOSA/ROSA design and package technology can be extended to DR4 single lambda optical modules. MaxLinear’s MxL935xx Telluride family of SoCs are key components in the development of high-speed mega-scale data centers based on 100Gbps single lambda optical...

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MaxLinear demos QSFP-DD Optical Interoperability for 400G

At OFC 2019, MaxLinear privately showcased optical interoperability using 400Gbps QSFP-DD modules from early access customers. The demonstration highlighted the capabilities of MaxLinear’s Telluride PAM4 DSP, the MxL93542, by enabling an end-to-end 400Gbps FR4 link between QSFP-DD modules from multiple vendors. In addition, optical interop will be demonstrated between a 400Gbps DR4 optical module and a 100Gbps DR1 optical module in breakout mode. “We...

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Dell'Oro: Wireless Packet Core revenues up 7% in 4Q18

Wireless Packet Core (WPC) market revenues grew 7 percent Y/Y in 4Q 2018, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. For the full-year 2018, Huawei was the top-ranked vendor, achieving this annual designation for the first time ever. Other findings in the report for the top-three Core vendor rankings for the full-year revenues in 2018 were as follows: Wireless Packet Core (2G/3G/4G): Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia Traditional Packet Core (2G/3G):...

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IDT launches 80G linear drivers for next-gen coherent

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) introduced its new GX7847x 80G linear driver series, in die form, for next generation coherent optical integrated modules. IDT said its GX7847x series 80G linear drivers are 4-channel integrated single die solutions that cover all optical modulator technologies in the market. The GX78471, GX78472 and GX78474 are optimized to provide the best performance for Lithium Niobate, Indium Phosphide, and Silicon Photonics...

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Luna Innovations acquires General Photonics

Luna Innovations has acquired General Photonics Corporation, a Chino, California-based supplier of optical components, modules and test equipment. General Photonics is focused on the generation, measurement and control of polarized light critical in fiber optic-based applications. The purchase price was $20 million, which includes a potential $1 million earnout payment. Luna said General Photonics’ component and module product lines are an ideal...

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CREDO highlights electrical and optical 100G PAM4

At this week's OFC 2019, CREDO conducted multiple live demonstrations of its low power, high-performance 112Gbps (G) PAM4 Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) technologies. “New high demand workloads such as artificial intelligence are moving to the cloud and are driving the need to deliver dramatic increases in throughput overall for data center, enterprise and high-performance computing environments,” said Rajan Pai, vice president of system applications...

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