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Inphi, NeoPhotonics collaborate on 100G modules

Inphi Corp. (NYSE: IPHI ), a provider of high-speed semiconductors, has partnered with NeoPhotonics Corp. (NYSE: NPTN) to develop 100G next-generation optical modules for high-density data center...

Avago demos CEI-25G-LR compliant SerDes in 28-nm

Avago Technologies (Nasdaq: AVGO) says its 25-Gbps Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) core in 28-nm process technology has demonstrated compliance with the Common Electrical Interface (CEI) standard...

Microsemi unveils Synchronous Ethernet chip for OTN

Microsemi Corp. (NASDAQ: MSCC) has announced the availability of what it claims is the world's first single-chip, standards-compliant Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) timing device to enable the...

PMC-Sierra HyPHY chips support OIF’s OTN-over-packet-fabric agreement

PMC-Sierra Inc., (NASDAQ:PMCS) says that its HyPHY Optical Transport Network (OTN) processors already support the Optical Internetworking Forum’s (OIF’s) recently completed...

GigOptix sampling 28-Gbps modulator driver for 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps

GigOptix, Inc. (OTCQX: GGOX) says it is now sampling the GX6262, a 28-Gbps Mach Zehnder modulator (MZM) driver for optical transmitters aimed at 40-Gbps DQPSK and 100-Gbps DP-QPSK metro and...

Broadcom announces CMOS 40G PHY

Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) has announced availability of its next-generation physical layer transceiver (PHY) chipset, designed to address the need for higher bandwidth and lower power in...

GigOptix ships 14G VCSEL driver and receiver amplifier arrays

GigOptix, Inc. (OTCQX:GGOX) says it has started high-volume production of 14G VCSEL drivers and receiver amplifier arrays for short-reach parallel optical interconnects. The firm says the products...

A*STAR, Alcatel-Lucent prepare silicon photonics device library

The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), part of Singapore’s Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), has big plans to commercialize silicon photonics. To make the plan a...

RAMPLAS effort seeks 100-Gbps optical RAM

A new project, partially funded by the European Commission under its Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-ICT-2009-C), will seek to develop a silcon-based optical random access memory (RAM) device...

Cortina Systems 100-Gbps ASSP targets converged OTN and Ethernet

Building on its introduction of the CS604x devices for 40-Gbps applications, communications semiconductor vendor Cortina Systems, Inc. has moved to 100-Gbps support via the new CS605x family of...