Tuesday
Sep122017
New MSA to enable four-lambda 400-gigabit modules
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 4:57PM A new 100-gigabit single-wavelength multi-source agreement (MSA) has been created to provide the industry with 2km and 10km 100-gigabit and 400-gigabit four-wavelength interfaces.
Mark NowellThe MSA is backed by 22 founding companies including Microsoft, Alibaba and Cisco Systems.
The initiative started work two months ago and a draft specification is expected before the year end.
“Twenty-two companies is a very large MSA at this stage, which shows the strong interest in this technology,” says Mark Nowell, distinguished engineer, data centre switching at Cisco Systems and co-chair of the 100G Lambda MSA. “It is clear this is going to be the workhorse technology for the industry for quite a while.”
tagged 100G Lambda MSA, 100G-FR, 100G-LR, 400G-FR4, COBO, IEEE, Mark Nowell, OSFP, QSFP-DD in optical transceivers Print Article
100G Lambda MSA, 100G-FR, 100G-LR, 400G-FR4, COBO, IEEE, Mark Nowell, OSFP, QSFP-DD in optical transceivers Print Article 