Source Photonics unveils 50G transceivers for 5G mid-haul

Source Photonics unveiled the following portfolio of 5G mid-haul transceivers: 50G QSFP28 LR supporting 50GE link up to 10 km on duplex single mode fiber 50G QSFP28 ER supporting 50GE link up to 40 km on duplex single mode fiber 50G BiDi QSFP28 LR supporting 50GE link up to 10 km on simplex single mode fiber 50G BiDi QSFP28 ER supporting 50GE link up to 40 km on simplex single mode fiber “We are pleased to announce a comprehensive portfolio of...

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Source Photonics showcases 400G at ECOC 2019

At ECOC 2019 this week in Dublin, Source Photonics is demonstrating its complete 400G portfolio with industry partners Source Photonics’ portfolio of Datacenter and Routing products includes: 400G-DR4 supporting 400GE links over 500m as well as an enhanced reach of up to 2 km (4x100G-FR) with support for breakout into 100G-DR/FR 400G-LR8 supporting 400GE links up to 10 km 400G-ER8 supporting 400GE links up to 40km as technology demonstration “Successful...

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OE Solutions announces 50G Bidirectional optical transceiver for 5G

OE Solutions announced a 50G bidirectional SFP28 ER ST optical transceiver. The new 50G BIDI ER ST transceiver, which is aimed especially at wireless mid-haul applications, operates in the O-band with a standard-temperature (ST) rating in a QSFP28 form factor. It supports a transmission distance of 40km. The new device joins OE Solutions’ extensive portfolio of 10G, 25G and now 50G optical transceivers for wireless access networks, including front-,...

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Scintil Photonics raises EUR 4 million for 800G transceiver prototype

Scintil Photonics, a start-up based in Grenoble, France, announced EUR 4 million in first-round funding for its work in silicon photonic fully integrated circuits. The company said the funding will be used to develop prototypes (800 Gbps transceiver photonic circuits) in commercial semiconductor foundries in order to sample strategic customers in the data center market. The team and development partnerships, including those with CEA-Leti in France...

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CIG announces 400G, 200G and 100G optical mModules

Cambridge Industries Group (CIG) announced a full line-up of 400G, 200G and 100G optical modules for datacenter applications at ECOC 2019, Dublin, Ireland. The line of products consists of the following: 400G QSFP56-DD FR4/LR4 and DR4 200G QSFP56-FR4, both digital (DSP) and analog (CDR) versions Next generation 100G QSFP28-DR1/FR1/LR1, CWDM4, LR4 “Adding a full line of 400G, 200G and 100G optical modules into our product offering reaffirms our...

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AWS activates NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs

Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of G4 instances, a new GPU-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance featuring the latest generation NVIDIA T4 GPUs, custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors, up to 100 Gbps of networking throughput, and up to 1.8 TB of local NVMe storage. AWS says these are the most cost-effective GPU instances for machine learning inference to date. The G4 instances...

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AT&T signs new renewable energy purchases

AT&T announced new Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs) with Invenergy and Duke Energy Renewables for new wind and solar projects. These purchases push AT&T to over 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy commitments. The new purchases will support wind and solar projects, developed by Invenergy, delivering 800 megawatts (MW) of sustainable energy, as well as 160 MWs of wind energy generated by the Frontier Windpower II project, developed...

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Telecom's $490 Billion Open Source Network Opportunity

“This huge $490B equipment spending opportunity over the next 5 years in communications service provider networks is large but is also complex; and the impact of next-generation SDN is making broadband and 5G deployment easier,” said Chris DePuy, founding analyst for 650 Group. “Operators are now moving to open source on a project and a technology basis gradually. Operators expect to achieve considerable Opex savings while also improving service...

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