Rockley Photonics says it has launched demonstrations of a 25.6-Tbps OptoASIC Switch system enable via cooperation with several partners. The OptoASIC Switch leverages the company’s LightDriver Optical Engine and copper-cable-attached 400G modules alongside technology from Accton, Molex, TE Connectivity, and what Rockley described as “other leading industry partners.”
The company says its LightDriver technology is scalable from 0.8 to 3.2 Tbps using 100G PAM4 signaling. Thus the OptoASIC Switch system platform is scalable from the current 25.6 Tbps to 51.2 Tbps and higher. In addition to the silicon photonics enabled LightDriver, the platform features:
- A customizable ratio of LightDriver engine and copper cable attached modules
- An external laser light source in front panel pluggable QSFP-DD modules
- Copper “solutions” from Molex BiPass and Samtec Si-FLY
- Conventional and fine-pitch CP sockets from TE Connectivity.
Accton, meanwhile, is contributing its design and production expertise. The company integrated the MAC ASIC, optical engine, and copper connectors within a Kyocera substrate, which is connected by an XLA socket from TE Connectivity. The demonstration switch platform also leverages Vicor’s vertical power GCM device.
“We are very pleased to have partnered with such a strong team in the hyper scale data center connectivity space to bring about this solution,” said Andrew Rickman, chief executive, Rockley Photonics. “For co-packaged optics to become a reality it will take a strong and collaborative ecosystem. The partnership demonstrated by Rockley, Accton, Molex and TE we believe is a significant steppingstone towards delivering high performance and cost-effective optics for hyperscale data center connectivity.”
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