Marvell debuts two PAM4 Optical DSPs

 Marvell introduced two optical PAM4 digital signal processors (optical DSPs) for connecting data infrastructure:Perseus - a 400/800 Gbps 5nm device that monolithically integrates the primary electrical components of a short-reach pluggable optical module — an optical DSP, a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) driver. Perseus, which is also available with an integrated silicon photonics driver,...

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Video: Scaling Data Centers Optics to 800G, 1.6T, and Beyond

What does it take to scale up a data center to accommodate large AI clusters powered by 32,000 GPUs? Loi Nguyen, EVP and GM, Optical from Marvell explains:The importance of connectivity in scaling up data centers: Not only do you need the GPUs themselves, but you also need high-speed optics and low latency switches to connect these GPUs together. A 32k GPU cluster would require around 70,000 optics connected via approximately 2,000 switches.The power...

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Video: 3 Types of Data Center Pluggable Optics

Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) has generated a lot of interest. Achyut Shah, SVP and GM, Connectivity from Marvell addresses the topic:The significant growth of optical interconnects in data centers: As networks scale to accommodate accelerated compute-optimized clouds, the number of interconnects is set to increase dramatically. A majority of these will be optical interconnects, which are becoming more prevalent in modern data centers compared to...

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Video: The Data Movement Challenge

Ultimately, the challenge of how to move data as quickly and efficient as possible can be understood as an equation. Sandeep Bharathi, Chief Development Officer from Marvell, explains:The importance of transferring large amounts of data across a distance with the highest energy efficiency. This involves different signaling standards and techniques to apply the right error correction algorithms, shaping waveforms to get the lowest latency and the...

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Marvell intros two new OCTEON 10 DPUs

Marvell boosted its silicon portfolio with two new OCTEON 10 data processing units (DPUs) designed for data and control plane applications in routers, firewalls, 5G small cells, SD-WAN appliances, and control plane applications in top-of-rack switches and line card controllers. The new OCTEON 10 CN102 and CN103 DPUs contain up to eight Arm Neoverse N2 cores, delivering 3x the performance of Marvell current DPU solutions for devices while reducing...

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T-Mobile US hits 4.3 Gbps with 5G standalone millimeter wave

T-Mobile US achieved a peak downstream rate of 4.3 Gbps using 5G standalone millimeter wave (mmWave) on its production network. The test, which was carried out in partnership with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies, aggregated eight channels of mmWave spectrum to reach download speeds topping 4.3 Gbps without relying on low-band or mid-band spectrum to anchor the connection. T-Mobile also aggregated four channels of mmWave spectrum on the uplink,...

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Versa Networks selected for DISA's Thunderdome

Versa Networks has been selected to provide SD-WAN, Zero Trust access and Customer Edge Security Stack (CESS) functions for Thunderdome, the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) zero trust network access (ZTNA) and application security architecture.Thunderdome is DISA’s ZTNA architecture. DISA’s recently completed Thunderdome prototype successfully proved that commercial technologies, including Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Customer Edge...

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Intel integrates 224Gbps SerDes with NewPhotonics' Engine

Intel and NewPhotonics announced a milestone achievement: the integration of Intel new 224Gbps electrical SerDes design with NewPhotonics' Photonics Engine, resulting in an end-to-end direct modulation electrical-to-optical link utilizing PAM4 modulation.The electrical-to-optical link incorporates a wide bandwidth photodetector (PD) and Modulator, supporting the end-to-end 224Gbps data transfer."We are thrilled to have achieved the successful integration...

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Oracle opens Bogotá Hyperscale Region

In partnership with Claro, Oracle opened a hyperscale cloud region in Bogotá, Colombia.Claro is one of the host partners for the new Oracle Cloud Bogotá Region, and through its partnership with Oracle it becomes the first telecommunications operator to offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services to organizations across Colombia.The new region is Oracle's 47th public cloud region and offers Oracle Cloud's full capabilities across more than 100...

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CTI acquires 525 mobile towers across U.S.

CTI Towers, one of the largest private tower companies in the U.S., acquired rights for 525 towers located in Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina and California from Conterra Ultra Broadband Holdings. Financial terms were not disclosed.With this acquisition, CTI Towers now has over 1800 towers that it owns, manages and/or markets throughout the United States. "We are proud to announce this partnership with Conterra Networks, as...

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Vantage Data Centers to open 16MW facility in Taipei

Vantage Data Centers plans to open a 16MW, 215,000 square foot (20,000 square meters) data center in Taipei, Taiwan. The company will open TPE1 in mid 2024. It is the company's first data center campus in Taiwan and its eighth in development or operational in APEC.The new data center is sited on two acres (one hectare) just 35 minutes from the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. In alignment with the local government’s focus on sustainable energy...

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