Thursday, March 14, 2024

Broadcom shows 200-Gbps per lane optical interconnects

Ahead of this month's #OFC24 in San Diego, Broadcom is announcing an expanded portfolio of optical interconnect solutions, including:Production release of 200-Gbps per lane (200G/lane) electro-absorption modulated laser (EML) to pair with next generation GPUsDemonstration of the industry’s first 200G/lane vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) Demonstration of continuous wave (CW) laser with high efficiency and high linearity for silicon...

#OFC24 preview: Ushering in Terabit Transceivers

What's next for optical interconnects needed for next-gen AI clusters? Manish Mehta, VP Marketing from Broadcom's Optical Systems Division, provides an insightful look into the advancements in this field:- Manish discusses the progress in optical components, particularly the development of the terabit transceiver. He highlights Broadcom's ongoing production of 100G vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and 100G electro-absorption modulated...

Broadcom ships its 51.2 Gbps CPO switch

Broadcom confirmed commercial deliveries of Bailly, the industry’s first 51.2 Tbps co-packaged optics (CPO) Ethernet switch. The product integrates eight silicon photonics based 6.4-Tbps optical engines with Broadcom’s StrataXGS Tomahawk 5 switch chip. Compared to conventiOnal switches with pluggable transceivers, Bailly's CPO interconnect promises 70% lower power consumption and delivers an 8x improvement in silicon area efficiencY. Bailly...

Infinera intros InP-based terabit optics

At #OFC24, Infinera is introducing a new line of high-speed intra-data center optics based on monolithic indium phosphide (InP) photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology. The new ICE-D optics are designed to dramatically lower cost and power per bit while providing intra-data center connectivity at speeds of 1.6 terabits per second (Tb/s) and greater. Infinera’s flexible ICE-D intra-data center optics are designed to support integration into...

#OFC24 preview: Optical Innovation for the Terabit Age

How will optical transport keep up with the relentless pace of bandwidth growth in the AI era?  Robert Shore, SVP, Marketing from Infinera highlights innovations at #OFC24:- The enhancements made to Infinera's GX platform, designed to support all applications across the network, from Metro Edge to subsea. This platform can scale to meet growing bandwidth demands and easily integrate new technologies as they become available.- The introduction...

Australia’s NBN picks Infinera’s GX and ICE-X coherent pluggables

NBN Co (nbn), Australia’s wholesale open-access broadband provider, has selected Infinera’s GX Series platform and ICE-X intelligent coherent pluggables to help upgrade its nationwide optical network.The Infinera GX and ICE-X solution, which will be deployed across nbn’s 60,000-kilometer fiber optic transport network, will increase traffic aggregation efficiencies and overall network capacity, while enabling significant power and cost per bit savings.“The...

Arrcus runs SRv6 Mobile User Plane on NVIDIA's Bluefield DPUs

Arrcus is demonstrating a secure 5G network slice using SRv6 Mobile User Plane (MUP), led by SoftBank Corp, and implemented on the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU.The proof-of-concept will be shown at the NVIDIA GTC global AI developer conference, scheduled from March 18th to 21st in San Jose, California. The demonstrations leverage BlueField DPUs and Arrcus' ArcOS network operating system (NOS) solution, aiming to deliver end-to-end network slicing and offer...

CANARIE, ESnet, GÉANT, and Internet2 expand transatlantic bandwidth

Internet2, CANARIE, the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), and GÉANT, have added three 400 Gbps circuits to boost transoceanic capacity for data-intensive science.The Advanced North Atlantic (ANA) collaboration supports multinational, data-intensive science collaborations, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, and the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the ongoing effort to build the world's...

Meter rolls out new switches with digital twin capabilities

 Meter, a start-up offering Network as a Service (NaaS) delivered as a fullstack solution, is rolling out brand new switch hardware, firmware, and virtualization features, all built from the ground up to work seamlessly with the rest of the Meter Network Operating System (NOS).The new switches, which are available in 24-port and 48-port models, offer a digital twin capability for better planning, visibility, configurability, and reliability.https://www.meter.com/product-newsletter/meter-switch-platformMeter...

FCC increases broadband speed benchmark to 100/20 Mbps

 The FCC is increasing the minimum benchmark speed to classify as "high-speed fixed broadband" to download speeds of 100 Mbps and upload speeds of 20 Mbps – a four-fold increase from the 25/3 Mbps benchmark set by the Commission in 2015. A newly-issued FCC report also sets a 1 Gbps/500 Mbps long-term goal for broadband speeds.The increase in the Commission’s fixed speed benchmark for advanced telecommunications capability is based on the standards...