Members of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) have given their approval to the Micro Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly (ulTLA) implementation agreement (IA).
The IA focuses on form factor for 100G applications with a reduction in consumption of power by 25%, 60% decrease in area and a decrease of 30% in height. Earlier the forum also gave their approval for two more documents that are part of the 100G framework.
Apart from the ulTLA the OIF has also given its approval to other IAs which were follow up maintenance updates for the 100G technology. The members of the OIF have identified issues in the IAs and rectified these issues in order to maintain uniformity among components. Examples of other IAs are the Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) of the 100G Long Haul DWDM Transmission Module, which is a successor of the 300-pin transponder in 40G and 10G applications, the Integrated Intradyne Coherent Receiver IA which focuses on providing high integration among photonic components and minimises the size and cost of 100G transreceivers and the CFP MSA where a common interface is established to manage commands and module communications.
OIF has also conducted interactive workshops as part of the “OIF Day at Tellabs” where speakers from OIF and Tellabs spoke on a wide range of topics such as electrical interfaces, OIF directions and projects and transparent optical networking and beyond. These workshops are conducted to identify the issues faced by equipment vendors and provide them with practical strategies.
Source: http://www.oiforum.com