ADVA and II-VI’s coherent partnership
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 5:53AM - ADVA and II-VI have jointly developed a 100-gigabit coherent DSP
- Both companies plan to use the 2.0-2.5W, 7nm CMOS Steelerton DSP for a 100 ZR QSFP28 module
- II-VI’s ASIC design team engineered the DSP while ADVA developed the silicon photonics-based optics.
ADVA and II-VI have joined forces to define a tiny coherent digital signal processor (DSP) that fits inside a QSFP28 optical module.
Christoph Glingener
The Steelerton DSP can send a 100-gigabit dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) transmission over 80-120km, carrying wireless backhaul and access traffic.
“It is backhaul of broadband, it is backhaul of mobile, and it definitely moves outdoors,” says Christoph Glingener, CTO at ADVA.
The module also serves metro networks with its 300km reach using optical amplification.
II-VI and ADVA now join such established coherent players as Ciena, Huawei, Infinera, Nokia as well as Marvell, NEL, and Acacia, now part of Cisco.
Effect Photonics announced at OFC earlier this year its coherent market entry with its acquisition of the Viasat DSP team.
