TRANSMISSION

Optical transmission equipment includes transceivers, transponders, and similar modules. XFP, SFP, SFP+, SFF, and QSFP are some of the more popular form factors, with CXP and CFP emerging for 100-Gbps applications. You’ll find product and tutorial information about such modules on this page.

Transmission NEWS & PRODUCTS

Infonetics pegs optical transceiver sales at $3.3 billion in 2016

Growth in 100-Gbps, tunable, and SFP+ optical modules points toward an overall expansion of ...

OE Solutions, AimValley offer Smart SFP with OC-3/STM-1 over Packet

OE Solutions and AimValley have announced their collaboration’s second product, the Smart SF...

EMCORE sells VCSEL-based product lines to Sumitomo

EMCORE Corp. (NASDAQ: EMKR) and Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations USA, Inc. (SEDU) have a...

Line-side 100-Gbps optical modules: An OFC/NFOEC 2012 Reporter's Notebook

Line side, client side, it didn’t matter – it seemed every optical module vendor at OFC/NFOE...

EMCORE launches 120-Gbps active optical cable

EMCORE Corp. (NASDAQ:EMKR) says it is sampling a 120-Gbps CXP active optical cable to custom...

Opnext selects Cortina's 40G/100G OTN processors

Communications semiconductor developer Cortina Systems, Inc. says that Opnext, Inc. (NASDAQ:...

LightCounting: Sales of optical modules up 7% in 2011

Sales of optical components and modules increased 7% in 2011, after spiking by 36% in 2010, ...

CEA-Leti, III-V Lab show silicon photonics transmitter

CEA-Leti and III-V Lab, a joint venture between Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, Thales Rese...

OneChip names VP signs manufacturing agreement with Fabrinet

OneChip Photonics Inc. has named Dan Meerovich its vice president of global manufacturing op...

Finisar unveils coherent, 4x28G approaches to 100-Gbps modules

Finisar Corp. (NASDAQ: FNSR) has announced that it too will play in the line-side 100-Gbps m...

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

Oclaro 2Q12 earnings call tidbits

Oclaro Chairman and CEO Alain Couder and CFO Jerry Turin discussed the company's results of the company's fiscal second quarter 2012 with analysts ...

Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Swimming in 100GbE’s alphabet soup

Recently, there has been a lot of confusion around the area of next-generation 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) development and who is doing what. Giv...

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