Luxtera's interconnect strategy

Briefing: Silicon photonics

Part 1: Optical interconnect

Luxtera demonstrated a 100 Gigabit QSFP optical module at the OFC/NFOEC 2013 exhibition.

"We're in discussions with a lot of memory vendors, switch vendors and different ASIC providers"

Chris Bergey, Luxtera

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Kotura demonstrates a 100 Gigabit QSFP

Kotura has announced a 100 Gigabit QSFP with a reach of 2km.  

“QSFP will be the long-term winner at 100 Gig; the same way QSFP has been a high volume winner at 40 Gig”

Arlon Martin, Kotura

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P-OTS 2.0: 60s interview with Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin

Heavy Reading has surveyed over 100 operators worldwide about their packet optical transport plans. Sterling Perrin, senior analyst at Heavy Reading, talks about the findings.

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Infinera speeds up network restoration

• Claimed to be the only hardware implementation of the Shared Mesh Protection protocol
• Provides network-wide protection against multiple network failures
• The chip is already within the DTN-X system; protocol will be activated this year

Pravin Mahajan, Infinera

Infinera has developed a chip to speed up network restoration following faults.

The chip implements the Shared Mesh Protection (SMP) protocol being developed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Infinera believes it is the only vendor with hardware acceleration of the protocol.

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Aurrion mixes datacom and telecom lasers on a wafer

Silicon photonics player, Aurrion, has detailed the making of multiple laser designs for datacom and telecom on a single wafer. The multiple designs on one wafer benefit the economics of telecom lasers by manufacturing them alongside higher-volume datacom sources.

"There is an inevitability of the co-mingling of electronics and optics and we are just at the beginning"

Eric Hall, Aurrion

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ECI Telecom demos 100 Gigabit over 4,600km

• 4,600km optical transmission over submarine cable
• The Tera Santa Consortium, chaired by ECI, will show a 400 Gigabit/ 1 Terabit transceiver prototype in the summer
• 100 Gigabit direct-detection module on hold as the company eyes new technology developments

"When we started the project it was not clear whether the market would go for 400 Gig or 1 Terabit. Now it seems that the market will start with 400 Gig."

Jimmy Mizrahi, ECI Telecom

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Cisco Systems demonstrates 100 Gigabit technologies

* Cisco adds the CPAK transceiver to its mix of 100 Gigabit coherent and elastic core technologies
* Announces 100 Gigabit transmission over 4,800km

"CPAK helps accelerate the feasibility and cost points of deploying 100Gbps"

Stephen Liu, Cisco

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