Telia Carrier launches SD-WAN leveraging its cloud-scale backbone

Telia Carrier has launched an advanced SD-WAN service that leverages its global and cloud-scale Internet backbone. The end-to-end networking solution, which is based on Cisco's Viptela SD-WAN technology, provides superior visibility, agility and control beyond the traditional WAN perimeter. In 2017, Telia Carrier, via its parent company Telia Company, was the first European service provider to launch SD-WAN. The company is now strengthening its...

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QSFP-DD800 MSA releases initial 800G transceiver spec

The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density 800 (QSFP-DD800) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group has released a new hardware specification for the QSFP-DD800 transceiver form factor. The new QSFP-DD800 1.0 specification is intended to be incremental to the existing QSFP-DD 5.0 specification. As signal integrity and thermal performance remain imperative, the transceiver pads have been optimized to improve signal integrity for 100 Gbps performance...

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Lumentum introduces 980nm high-power pump lasers

Lumentum introduced a series of advanced 980 nanometer (nm) single-mode pump lasers that offer significantly higher power and higher efficiency, enabling high-density erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) designs. Lumentum said its new pump lasers employ revolutionary chips that are based on Lumentum's field-proven, proprietary, high-reliability technology, but offer operating power levels from 250 mW to 1600 mW. Highlights The new 5200 Series...

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MACOM announces 96 GBaud TIA and driver for 600Gbps and 800Gbps

MACOM released a dual channel 96 GBaud transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and quad-channel modulator driver for coherent optical networking applications. The company said its new dual-channel TIA MATA-009806 and quad-channel driver MAOM-009408 offer customers the high bandwidth, low noise and low power consumption to enable Integrated Coherent Receivers (ICRs), High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulators (HB-CDMs) and Integrated Coherent Transmit-Receive...

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MACOM intros 25G photodiode Fabry-Perot laser

MACOM announced the availability of its 25G Avalanche Photodiode (APD) and 25G Fabry-Perot (FP) Laser optical components for 5G Wireless and Datacenter applications. The APD28A is a back-illuminated 25G APD covering both O- and C-Bands with a usable wavelength range of 1250nm to 1650nm. The Photodiode features greater than 20GHz (3dB) bandwidth, with very high sensitivity of -22dBm when coupled to a low noise amplifier for transmission applications....

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Lumentum delivers externally modulated lasers for 100G PAM4

Lumentum introduced three new high-speed datacom laser chips to enable the growth of future hyperscale data centers and 5G wireless applications. 100G PAM4 Uncooled EMLs for Next-Generation Data Centers - Lumentum PAM4-optimized 53 Gbaud EMLs enable full C-temp transceiver designs without using a TE cooler. As a long-standing leader with expertise in complex EML technology, Lumentum has developed an industry-first uncooled, self-hermetic EML. Available...

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OFC Keynote: Celebrating 50 years of Light-speed Connections

From OFC 2020 in San Diego, here is a recording of the special keynote: Celebrating 50 years of Light-speed Connections. This 50-minute video features a tribute to the many innovators over the past 5 decades, along with commentary from David Welch, founder & chief innovation officer, Infinera. https://events7.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/747ae78e651e4380989bcef3ed42146e1d ...

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IDC: Worldwide Ethernet switch sales dipped 2% in 4Q19

The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) recorded $7.6 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2019 (4Q19), a decline of 2.1% year over year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Ethernet Switch Tracker and Worldwide Quarterly Router Tracker. For the full year 2019, the market recorded $28.8 billion in revenue for a year-over-year growth rate of 2.3%. Meanwhile, the worldwide total enterprise and service...

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Department of Commerce extends export license to Huawei

The U.S. Department of Commerce has extended export licenses to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and its non-United States affiliates (Huawei) for U.S. suppliers through May 15, 2020. At the same time, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced it is seeking public comments on the continuing need for, and scope of, possible future extensions of the Temporary General License (TGL) for Huawei.  The Department notes that its initial TGL...

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Semtech releases PAM4 CDR Platform for 200G and 400G

Semtech announced production availability of its "Tri-Edge" CDR SR solutions to enable next-generation data center multi-mode interconnectivity. There are two new devices: GN2558 is a quad PAM4 CDR with an integrated VCSEL driver GN2559 is a quad PAM4 CDR with an integrated linear transimpedance amplifier (TIA). The GN2558 CDR includes proprietary VCSEL compensation to enable a wide range of VCSEL options with fully adaptive input equalization...

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