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Cisco’s Peter Jones new Ethernet Alliance chairman
The Ethernet Alliance also announced that it will host a Technology Exploration Forum (TEF) April 15, 2020 in Santa Clara, CA, under the title “TEF 2020: The Next Ethernet Rate.”
Jan 9th, 2020
The programmable Silicon One chip family is designed to support a variety of switching and routing applications and implementation strategies.
Cisco builds Internet for the Future approach on silicon, optics, and software
Dec 12th, 2019
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CompoundTek teams with Cadence, Lumerical on process design kit for silicon photonics applications
Dec 12th, 2019
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Inphi sampling Canopus DSP for pluggable coherent 400G applications
Nov 25th, 2019
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OIF resets board of directors, launches network operator survey on coherent optics
Nov 21st, 2019
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Driving Next Generation Network Solutions at OIF – A Network Operator’s Perspective
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Deadline for 2020 Lightwave Innovation Reviews extended to November 22
Nov 18th, 2019
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Broadcom reacquires optical transceiver assets from Foxconn
Nov 15th, 2019
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Broadcom sampling BCM68650 10G PON OLT MAC family
Nov 14th, 2019
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Nov 11th, 2019
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Nov 20th, 2019
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Initial entry deadline for 2020 Lightwave Innovation Reviews is October 25
Entries filed by the end of the day October 25 receive a $100 discount on the entry fee. The final deadline for submission to the 2020 Lightwave Innovation Reviews is November 15, 2019.
Oct 22nd, 2019
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Solving Bandwidth Challenges with FPGAs Optimized for Next-Generation Optical Networking
The availability of cost-optimized, low-power FPGAs at mid-range densities with intrinsic burst mode clock data recovery support is facilitating new ways to solve difficult OLT design challenges.
Oct 17th, 2019
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Nokia touts Quillion fixed access network chipset family
The chipset family will support GPON and 10G PON architectures on the fiber side and a variety of approaches, including Gfast, on the copper side.
Oct 10th, 2019
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OIF plans 400ZR, CEI-112G, IC-TROSA interops at ECOC 2019
Meanwhile, OIF Physical and Link Layer Working Group, Vice Chair Optical Karl Gass will deliver a presentation titled “Deployment of the 400ZR Ecosystem” on Tuesday, September 24, from 3:00 to 3:30 PM.
Sep 12th, 2019
Ethernet Alliance High-Speed Networking plugfest, December 2018.
Achieving Multi-Vendor Interoperability in Ethernet: Behold the Plugfest!
It is the Ethernet Alliance’s interoperability test event—the “plugfest”—where the technology’s global reputation for seamless, multi-vendor interoperability is definitively earned.
Sep 10th, 2019
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Semtech offers XGS-PON OLT chipset
The company is showing of the GN7153B combo chip and the GN7055B multi-rate burst mode transimpedance amplifier (TIA) for XGS-PON optical line terminals (OLTs) at CIOE 2019.
Sep 5th, 2019
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Open Eye Consortium releases PAM4 53-Gbps single-mode transceiver module specification
The MSA members expect the specification will lead to development of 50G SFP, 100G DSFP, 100G SFP-DD, 200G QSFP, and 400G QSFP-DD and OSFP single-mode modules that are less expensive and complex than digital approaches that require DSPs.
Sep 5th, 2019
The April High Speed Plugfest followed a similar event held last December (pictured above).
Latest Ethernet Alliance High-Speed Networking Plugfest has 97% pass rate
If the latest Ethernet Alliance High Speed Networking (HSN) Plugfest is any indication, industry is making significant progress toward developing multivendor interoperable high-speed devices.
Aug 15th, 2019
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OIF launches coherent driver modulator, FlexE/400ZR white paper projects
The first effort targets a higher baud rate coherent driver modulator and the second seeks to create a white paper that describes low-rate service multiplexing using FlexE and 400ZR.
Aug 15th, 2019
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Faraday intros 28-nm 28G programmable SerDes IP for networking ASICs
The company expects the SerDes capability to find use in 100 Gigabit Ethernet and PON equipment designs.
Aug 8th, 2019
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Cisco, Acacia Communications assure customers
Executives at Cisco Systems and Acacia Communications have sent a letter to customer assuring them that Cisco plans to continue to support the needs of Acacia’s customers after it acquires the company.
Jul 19th, 2019
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Court awards Viasat $49.3 million in damages in SDFEC IP suit against Acacia Communications
Viasat says it plans to pursue further financial awards at Acacia’s expense, including additional royalty damages for breach of contract as well as attorney’s fees.
Jul 17th, 2019
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HiLight Semiconductor sampling 25-Gbps CMOS transimpedance amplifiers for PIN and APD photodiode applications
The HLR25G0 targets PIN photodiode applications and the HLR25G1 is “most suited” to avalanche photodiode (APD) based designs, according to the company.
Jul 11th, 2019
NeoPhotonics' 53-Gbaud driver ICs can be applied to 400GbE module designs, such as the QSFP-DD.
NeoPhotonics shipping 53-Gbaud linear driver ICs for single-lambda 100G applications
The GaAs devices are intended to complement silicon photonics based Mach-Zehnder modulator chips in single-lambda 100G optical transceiver designs.
Jul 11th, 2019