GlobalFoundries announces 45nm Silicon Photonics platform

GlobalFoundries announced a  new Silicon Photonics 45nm platform for combining RF CMOS and optical components on the same chip.The monolithic platform includes an innovative new feature, the first micro ring resonator (MRR) optical component in 300 mm wafer technology.GF said the new platform has passed critical technology milestones and is on track for full technology qualification by Q1 2022. The company also confirms that it is engaged with...

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Arrcus resets with new CEO, vision, and strategic partners

Arrcus, a hyperscale networking software start-up based in San Jose, California, named Shekar Ayyar as its CEO and chairman of the board. The company also announced a strategic shift toward edge-native, large-scale distributed and disaggregated networking opportunities. In addition, Arrcus announced the infusion of new capital from its strategic partners - Liberty Global, SoftBank Corp and Samsung Next. The new investors join the existing investors,...

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Arrcus: Opportunities at the Edge for Network Operating Systems?

In this video, Shekar Ayyar shares his perspective on the need for disaggregated networking solutions at the 5G edge.Ayyarr recently joined Arrcus as CEO and Chairman of the Board. Previously, he was the executive vice president and general manager of VMware's Telco and Edge Cloud business. He also led VMware’s strategy and corporate development efforts in enterprise software and communications while overseeing over 60 M&A transactions and investments...

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Credo's Active Electrical Cables carry 400G over 7m

Credo announced its second generation HiWire LP SPAN AEC (Low Power SPAN Active Electrical Cable) family, promising a reduction in power of nearly 50% and while increasing reach 40% compared to first generation.The hot-swappable LP SPAN AEC is positioned as a reliable, plug and play replacement of Active Optical Cables (AOC) for high-speed interconnects up to 400Gbps at approximately half the power and lower cost. Credo says its LP SPAN AECs...

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Spirent and MultiLane collaborate on QSFP-DD 800G testing

Spirent Communications has partnered with MultiLane, a global leader in data center interconnects, to offer vendor-neutral testing solutions supporting the 800G ecosystem. Specifically, Spirent and MultiLane are working together to resolve QSFP-DD800 testing challenges. QSFP-DD800 is one of the first port standards that uses individual electrical 100G lanes. The design, optimization, and fabrication of these 100G lanes presents a significant...

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MACOM demos TIA interoperability with Broadcom 7nm PAM-4 DSP

 MACOM Technology Solutions has demonstrated interoperability of Broadcom’s PAM-4 DSP and its transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) for 53 Gbps per lane VCSEL based short reach and 100 Gbps per lane EML based long reach data center applications.The pairing for single-mode long reach solutions includes Broadcom’s 7nm Centenario DSP (BCM874xx) with MACOM’s four-channel 4x106 Gbps PAM-4 linear transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) optimized for use in 400G...

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Google's Grace Hopper subsea cable lands in Cornwall

The Grace Hopper subsea cable has landed in Bude, Cornwall, UK. This follows a successful Bilbao landing earlier in September.Google says Grace Hopper will use a new switching architecture to provide optimum levels of network flexibility and resilience to adjust to unforeseen failures or traffic patterns. https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/united-kingdom/our-grace-hopper-subsea-cable-has-landed-uk/?linkId=131609522Google's Grace...

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Leading vendors agree to tackle vulnerabilities in global routing

The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, backed by Arista, Cisco, Huawei, Juniper, and Nokia and supported by the Internet Society, today announced an Equipment Vendor Program aimed at reducing the most common threats to the Internet’s routing system.The MANRS Equipment Vendor Program provides best practices for all network equipment vendors. By joining MANRS, equipment vendors agree to the baseline of routing security defined...

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VIAVI and Capgemini collaborate on 5G and O-RAN validation

Viavi Solutions is working with Capgemini Engineering in Portugal to deliver a 5G and O-RAN lab test capability, powered by VIAVI's O-RAN Lab as a Service (LaaS).The companies are collaborating to ensure successful network integration in 5G open environments. The VIAVI portfolio of test tools enables measurements for the entire network lifecycle, providing functional, system integration and performance testing of gNBs, core networks, core network...

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GlobalFoundries and Qualcomm team on 5G RF front-end

GlobalFoundries (GF) and Qualcomm Global Trading PTE., are extending their RF collaboration on 5G multi-Gigabit speed RF front-end products for 5G-enabled products.“GlobalFoundries continues to lead in RF with feature-rich technology solutions for 5G,” said Dr. Bami Bastani, senior vice president and general manager, mobile and wireless infrastructure strategic business unit at GF. “Our strong collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies includes sub-6...

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SambaNova announces a key hire for its AI team

SambaNova Systems, a Silicon Valley start-up developing AI-driven Dataflow-as-a-Service, announced the appointment of Poonacha Kongetira as Vice President of Hardware.Kongetira hails from Google where he led a team of engineers developing custom silicon accelerators for machine learning, video transcode, and datacenter infrastructure. He also led NVIDIA’s Bangalore design center for mobile and GPU chips with a team of more than 800 engineers. Kongetira...

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