AppliedMicro samples 100Gbps CMOS multiplexer

AppliedMicro has announced the first CMOS merchant multiplexer chip for 100Gbps coherent optical transmission. The S28032 device supports dual polarisation, quadrature phase-shift keying (DP-QPSK) and has a power consumption of 4W, half that of current multiplexer chip designs implemented in BiCMOS.

The S28032 100 Gig multiplexer IC. Source: AppliedMicro

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OTN processors from the core to the network edge

The latest silicon design announcements from PMC and AppliedMicro reflect the ongoing network evolution of the Optical Transport Network (OTN) protocol.

"There is a clear march from carriers, led in particular by China, to adopt OTN in the metro"

Scott Wakelin, PMC

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