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Altera Unveils Dual-Mode 56-Gbps PAM-4 and 30-Gbps NRZ Transceivers for Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs

Altera, now the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) within Intel Corporation, today unveiled the transceiver technology that will enable Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoCs to support data rates up to 56 Gbps. Altera is demonstrating today the FPGA industry's first dual-mode 56-Gbps pulse-amplitude modulation with 4-levels (PAM-4) and 30-Gbps non-return-to-zero (NRZ) transceivers.

22 Mar 2016

IRT Nanoelec Integrates Laser, Silicon Mach Zehnder Modulator for 25-Gbps Optical Transmission

IRT Nanoelec, an R&D consortium focused on information and communication technologies (ICT) using micro- and nanoelectronics, today announced the first co-integration of a III-V/silicon laser and silicon Mach Zehnder modulator demonstrating 25 Gbps transmission on a single channel. This transmission rate usually is achieved using an external source, over a 10 km single-mode fiber.

22 Mar 2016

Lumentum’s Latest Technologies and Solutions on Display at OFC 2016

Lumentum Holdings Inc. (“Lumentum”) today announced it will have on hand a full complement of its telecom and datacom products at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) OFC 2016 in Anaheim, Calif., from March 20 - 24, 2016.

21 Mar 2016

Acacia Communications Announces Shipment of over 13,000 Coherent CFP Modules

Acacia Communications, a leading provider of high-speed coherent optical interconnect products, today announced that it has shipped over 13,000 coherent modules in its AC100-CFP product family.

21 Mar 2016

Ciena Extends Benefit of Advanced 6500 Packet-Optical Platform to Increase Network Scalability

Ciena® is extending the benefits of its market-leading 6500 Packet-Optical Platform to significantly increase network scalability and accelerate the move to open, virtualized, SDN-based architectures. Ciena’s 6500 T-Series is purpose-built for the Terabit world, offering significantly reduced power consumption and space requirements.

18 Mar 2016

Netunwired Selects Siklu to Backhaul New Wireless Broadband Network

Siklu Inc., the global market leader in millimeter-wave radios, announced it was selected by Netunwired LCC to backhaul a new wireless broadband network at the Aurora Sports Complex in Colorado. Siklu's wireless, Gigabit radios were selected for their out-of-the-box, easy to deploy characteristics, and inherent interference-free quality.

18 Mar 2016

Oclaro’s Non-Hermetic 25Gbit/s 1.3ìm DFB Laser Diodes Qualified for 100Gbit/s Transceivers

Oclaro, Inc., a leading provider and innovator of optical communications solutions, today announced the successful qualification of its non-hermetic 25Gbit/s 1.3 ìm distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes for 100Gbit/s transceivers.

18 Mar 2016

OFC 2016 to Feature Xilinx’s Multiple Industry-First Solutions for Ultra-High Bandwidth Optical Networks

Xilinx, Inc. will introduce multiple industry-first solutions for ultra-high bandwidth optical networks at OFC 2016. Targeting OTN and Datacenter Interconnect (DCI) applications, these never publicly demoed solutions enable systems OEMs to deliver fast-to-market, efficient and scalable transport of big data across data centers and optical transport networks.

18 Mar 2016

Lumentum Releases Scalable SDN Optical Whitebox Platform

Lumentum Holdings Inc. (“Lumentum”) unveiled a new optical whitebox platform supporting an ecosystem enabling SDN within data center & metro/edge DWDM transport. The initial products include a family of configurable rack-mountable optical whiteboxes: terminal amplifier, line amplifier, mux/demux, and ROADM.

18 Mar 2016

Lumentum’s New E-Temp T-SFP+ Complements Current Portfolio of Tunable SFP+ and XFP Optical Transceivers

Lumentum Holdings Inc. (“Lumentum”) has added a 10G tunable SFP+ optical transceiver for extended temperature ranges (-5°C to 85°C) to its Transmission Components and Modules product lineup. The e-temp T-SFP+ complements Lumentum’s current portfolio of tunable SFP+ and XFP optical transceivers, but offers additional features and low power dissipation capability necessary for high-density applications found at the network edge.

18 Mar 2016