Sunday, March 6, 2022

OFCnet to showcase 34Tbps gateway

OFC, in collaboration with the operator of California's research and education network CENIC, is launching OFCnet, a live high-speed fiber path connecting CENIC's facility in San Diego to the San Diego Convention Center, where OFC is being held 06-10 March 2022.

The OFCnet gateway, with up to 34Tbps of bandwidth, will enable academia and industry to join forces to push the boundaries as they design, build and utilize this platform for cutting-edge networking technologies. The vision of OFCnet is being facilitated through the collaboration of CENIC, Ciena, EXFO, Lumen, Smart City Networks, the University of California San Diego's Qualcomm Institute and Supercomputer Center and Viavi. This team of visionaries aims to bring together bright minds from academia, industry and government to make this innovative networking infrastructure flourish in the future. The network will be available for the next five years.

"CENIC is thrilled to be able to help facilitate this dedicated high-capacity infrastructure to drive adoption and innovation in optical networking technology," said CENIC's Vice President of Engineering and Security Tony Nguyen. "It is through private and public collaborative projects like this that our research and education communities are empowered to accelerate discovery in solving our toughest challenges."

"OFCnet presents a game-changing opportunity for the research and education (R&E) community to participate in OFC," said OFC General Chairs Shinji Matsuo, David Plant and Jun Shan Wey. "This is just the beginning of an incredible collaboration with industry, government and academia to provide a platform for data sharing and discoveries that are driving innovation around the world."

"Pushing boundaries is what the OFC community does so well, and we're proud to provide the fiber backbone that will connect CENIC's facility and the San Diego Convention Center, making OFCnet at OFC a reality," said Ed Morche, president of Lumen's North American Enterprise and Public Sector. "CENIC's high speed network is built on the Lumen optical fiber and colocation infrastructure to quickly and securely connect academia, government and industry to drive innovation. These ultra-fast connections are designed to increase scientific collaboration among diverse organizations across the U.S."

https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/

Nokia to demo Coherent Routing at OFC

Nokia will showcase Coherent Routing at the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) conference being held this week in San Diego, California.

Coherent Routing integrates a range of pluggable Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) coherent router optics, application-optimized optical line systems, and cross-domain IP and optical management coordination and automation in a complete, flexible solution.

The live demo of the operationizable Coherent Routing solution will be on display at the Nokia booth (#4139) in the exhibits hall, showing Nokia 7750 SR-s routers connected by 400Gb/s pluggable coherent optics (400ZR/ZR+) over a Nokia 1830 PSI-L open optical line system and managed by Nokia’s Network Services Platform (NSP) for service automation.

Vach Kompella, Vice President, IP Networks Division at Nokia, said: “Nokia’s Coherent Routing is a best-in-class solution including routers, pluggable coherent optics, optical line systems and end-to-end management. Building on our proven leadership in IP routing, we’re proud to unveil an operational solution which supports 400GE IP networks today, while providing future-proof extension to 800GE.”

https://www.nokia.com/about-us/news/releases/2022/03/03/nokia-showcases-coherent-routing-solution-for-efficient-application-optimized-ip-optical-networks/


Nokia shows its next-gen packet optical transport network (P-OTN)

 Nokia announced a series of upgrades for its next-generation packet optical transport network (P-OTN) solutions needed by CSPs offering wholesale services.

Upgrades to Nokia’s 1830 PSS-x solutions include a doubling of switching capacity up to a market-leading 48 Tbps, new wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) uplinks based on Nokia’s fifth-generation Photonic Service Engines (PSE-V) and expanding the range of wholesale service options with new client interfaces supporting 400GE service transport, and a wide range of hard and soft isolation features for network slicing.

The upgrades enable the 1830 PSS-x portfolio tp interwork seamlessly with the 1830 ONE and 1830 PSD compact solutions to enable end-to-end high-capacity services from the metro/edge through national and global core networks. 

1830 PSS-x P-OTN upgrade highlights:

  • Doubling non-blocking switching capacity, up to 4Tb/s in the PSS-8x, 12Tb/s in the PSS-12x, and up to 48Tb/s in the PSS-24x
  • Support for new WDM uplinks based on Nokia’s fifth-generation Photonic Service Engines, including 90Gbaud super coherent optics (PSE-Vs) and 400G pluggable digital coherent optics (PSE-Vc)
  • Expanding the range of wholesale service options with new client interfaces supporting 400GE service transport, and a wide range of hard and soft isolation features for network slicing

James Watt, Head of Optical Networks Division, Nokia, said: “We are excited to offer advanced capacity scaling and extended service offerings to our 250+ 1830 PSS-x customers, while also enabling new service capabilities across the entire CSP wholesale market. Our new upgrades provide comprehensive options for flexible OTN switch fabric capacity scaling, support higher speed line interfaces, provide new wholesale services and enable hard traffic isolation, all critical features for a composable and future-proof network.”

https://www.nokia.com/about-us/news/releases/2022/03/03/nokia-launches-next-generation-otn-architecture-for-wholesale-services/

Ranovus and Xilinx to demo Co-Packaged Optics integration

 At this week's OFC event in San Diego, Ranovus will demonstrated its Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) 2.0 integration featuing  a Xilinx Versal ACAP its own Ranovus Odin 800Gbps optical engine. The integration eliminates the need for the retimer, resulting in 75% smaller footprint and 40% cost and power consumption savings in the Optical Interconnect.

RANOVUS’ Odin is a low latency, high density, and protocol agnostic optical engine that delivers massive optical interconnect bandwidth, scaling from 800Gbps to 3.2Tbps in the same footprint. It leverages Ranovus’ 100Gbps per lambda monolithic Electro-Photonic Integrated Circuit (EPIC) IP, laser platform, and advanced packaging technologies. 

“We announced our Odin Analog Drive CPO 2.0 platform at OFC 2021 for Ethernet switch and module applications and are thrilled to showcase our platform with a Versal ACAP for ML/AI workloads” said Hamid Arabzadeh, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RANOVUS. “We have been at the forefront of the CPO movement since 2018 and are delighted to share our multi disciplinary IP cores with our customers who want to accelerate the adoption of Analog Drive CPO in data centers.”   

CPO is an innovative approach that provides Nx100Gbps PAM4 Optical I/O channels for Ethernet switch and ML/AI silicon in a single packaged assembly,  which significantly reduces the cost and power consumption of the complete system.

“We’re proud of our collaboration with Ranovus that helped achieve record performance levels while at the same time reducing power and overall footprint of the complete solution,” said Dan Mansur, vice president, Adaptable and Embedded Computing Group, AMD (formerly Xilinx). “This CPO demonstration highlights the versatility of the Versal GTM SERDES to operate over anything from long-reach copper to directly driving the Ranovus Analog-Drive CPO 2.0 optical engine.   Co-packaging Ranovus Odin™ with Xilinx Versal is a significant advancement which enables data center customers to build highly efficient and cost-effective systems for next-generation workloads.”

Ranovus leverages Co-packaged Optics in switch design

Ranovus introduced its Odin Analog-Drive CPO 2.0 architecture, which leverages co-packaged Optics (CPO) to provide nx100Gbps PAM4 Optical I/O for Ethernet switch and ML/AI silicon in a single packaged assembly.In March 2020, Ranovus announced its first generation of co-packaged optics (CPO 1.0), which enabled an attractive multi-sourced solution for 51.2T Ethernet switch applications.CPO 2.0 improves on CPO 1.0 while maintaining optical interoperability...


Credo adds integrated 50Gbps PAM4 VCSEL and EML drivers

Credo Technology Group announced the availability of its second generation Seagull optical digital signal processors (DSPs). These products are based on Credo's first-generation Seagull platform, with the addition of integrated VCSEL and EML drivers. The new products include the single channel Seagull 51, dual channel Seagull 111, and quad channel Seagull 201 PAM4 DSPs.

Seagull 51 is a single channel DSP that supports bitmux (2 x 25Gbps NRZ to 1x 50Gbps PAM4) and retimer (1 x 50Gbps to 1x 50Gbps PAM4) modes. 

It operates over the full industrial temperature range and is designed for next-generation 5G wireless fronthaul and mid-haul, or datacenter, applications. The Seagull 111 and Seagull 201, respectively, are dual and quad channel retimers which are ideal for high-density, datacenter Active Optical Cables (AOCs) or optical transceivers. Seagull 111 and Seagull 201 include dedicated phase-locked loops (PLLs) per channel and can be seamlessly used in breakout applications.

“Credo’s first-generation Seagull products gained success across different markets thanks to excellent performance and power dissipation,” said Scott Feller, VP of Marketing in Credo. “The second-generation Seagull products extend those capabilities with integrated EML and VCSEL drivers while enabling customers to utilize designs and software based on the first-generation hardware and software for a fast, smooth migration to these new Seagull devices.”


Credo’s Seagull platform is designed in standard 12nm CMOS technology, with optimized product cost structure and lead times to enable price-competitive 5G and datacenter market. Customers will also have the added benefit of security of supply.

All Seagull products include a high-performance DSP and a full suite of performance optimization and testability features. Integrated drivers enable direct connection to VCSELs and EMLs, eliminating the need for external drivers and simplifying the optics interface. The products are designed for optimal component placement, use of standard assembly techniques and high-yield, reliable PCB design.



MaxLinear and Sumitomo to demo 400G-DR4 QSFP-DD

At this week's OFC, MaxLinear and Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations (SEDI) will showcase the first public demonstration of the FOTON 400G-DR4 QSFP-DD reference platform.

This platform incorporates the MaxLinear Keystone 5nm 400G DSP and SEDI’s latest 100G/lane EMLs (Electro-Absorption Modulated Lasers) and photodetectors (PD). FOTON provides best-in-class performance and power consumption and a proven path to production for optical transceiver manufacturers to follow.

"Market projections show the demand for 400G modules will exceed two million units this year, double in 2023 and continue to increase through 2026," said Drew Guckenberger, Vice President of Optical Interconnect at MaxLinear. "The FOTON 400G reference design provides a proven baseline that allows module partners to quickly ramp 400G products and access this major, growing data center market quickly and effectively."

The MaxLinear Keystone family of 5nm PAM4 DSPs includes 400G and 800G variants with and without integrated drivers. The FOTON reference module uses the 400G DSP with integrated drivers to directly drive SEDI’s 100G EMLs, providing outstanding module level transmitter performance by using the large drive swing and transmit equalization capabilities of the Keystone DSP.

The FOTON reference design is immediately available for module designers, along with MaxLinear DSPs and SEDI EMLs and PDs.

http://www.maxlinear.com/infrastructure/hsi