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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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