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

OIF to explore Transport SDN, CFP2

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has decided to dip its toes into software-defined ne...

Acacia Communications adds funding, hints at new products

Coherent transmission technology developer Acacia Communications has closed a new $20 millio...

MOSIS collaboration with ePIXfab boosts access to silicon photonics prototyping

Semiconductor development foundry MOSIS had teamed up with ePIXfab, the European silicon pho...

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Things I learned at OFC/NFOEC 2013

Conferences such as OFC/NFOEC are, of course, great places to pick up news of technological ...

Menara Networks to provide 10GbE transponders to Ocean Observatories Initiative

Menara Networks, Inc. says its OTN “system-in-module” DWDM XFP transponder is providing 10 G...

100G optical transceiver sales to double up over next two years says Infonetics

The next two years will see sales of 100-Gbps optical transceivers boom, doubling this year ...

QEOS offers datacom-grade LED products based on Tilted Charge Dynamics

Optical component startup Quantum Electro Opto Systems Sdn. Bhd. (QEOS) has unveiled the fir...

OE Solutions offers cooled single-channel optical transceiver

Optical transceiver vendor OE Solutions Co., Ltd. has added a Cooled Single Channel (CSC) bi...

Leoni partners with Firecomms to develop LED transceivers for plastic optical fiber

Cabling provider Leoni Fiber Optics GmbH has joined forces with the Irish company Firecomms ...

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

HuaweI: We're not quitting U.S.

April 25, 2013
Huawei would like you to know that while it has decided that it's unlikely to achieve rampant success in the U.S. carrier network equipment market,...

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Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Ethernet runs out of steam

February 1, 2013
Big news on the higher-speed Ethernet front. No, not that work has begun on 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), thus setting the bar low, but rather the intention to go for 1.6 Terabit Ethernet (TbE) afterward. Yes, that’s right. After deca...

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