POET and Lessengers partner on 800G DR8 transceivers
POET Technologies has announced a partnership with South Korea-based Lessengers to co-develop a next-generation 800G DR8 optical transceiver targeted at...
Lessengers Launches 1.6T Multimode OSFP Transceiver
Lessengers unveiled a 1.6T OSFP 2×SR4 multimode optical transceiver at OFC 2025, designed to meet the escalating bandwidth and energy...
Optica Executive Forum: Tech Giants Debate Future of Photonics in AI Clusters
by James E. Carroll San Francisco, March 31, 2025 — At the Optica Executive Forum during OFC 2025, an all-star panel...
OFC 2025 Panel: Million-GPU Clusters Push Networks to the Breaking Point
San Francisco – April 1, 2025- As AI clusters balloon toward the million-GPU mark, the optical and electrical interconnect industry...
Ciena, HyperLight, McGill Demo 3.2Tbps IMDD using 448G/Lane
Ciena, HyperLight, and McGill University have achieved the industry’s first 3.2Tbps O-band IMDD transmission using eight 448Gbps lanes over a...
Lumentum Launches 400G and 200G InP Optical Chips
Lumentum introduced new indium phosphide (InP) photonic chip technologies, including 400 Gbps-per-lane and 200 Gbps-per-lane optical links, along with ultra-high-power...
Marvell Launches 1.6T and 800G AEC DSPs
Marvell is advancing short-reach interconnects for AI infrastructure with the launch of its 1.6T and 800G Alaska® A PAM4 DSPs...
Semtech Pushes Toward 3.2T With 400G-Per-Channel PMD Work
Semtech introduced 200G per channel PMD (Physical Medium Dependent) ICs for 1.6T modules and developing 400G per channel solutions for...
Cerebras + Ranovus = Wafer-Sale Compute + Co-Packaged Optics
Cerebras Systems has secured a new contract from DARPA to develop a next-generation real-time compute platform combining its wafer-scale engine...
Open ROADM MSA Demos Multi-Vendor 800G Pluggables
At OFC 2025, members of the Open ROADM Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) demonstrated the first multi-vendor 800G pluggable ROADM link and...
Eoptolink Demos 1.6T LRO Optical Transceivers
Eoptolink Technology is showcasing its 1.6T Linear Receive Optics (LRO) transceiver at OFC 2025, marking a step forward in power-efficient...
Google’s Amin Vahdat: Networking Is the Bottleneck
San Francisco, March 31, 2025 — In a keynote at the Optica Executive Forum, Amin Vahdat, VP and Fellow at...
Optica Executive Forum: Photonic-enabled Modules Heading to 1.6T and 3.2T
At the 2025 Optica Executive Forum in San Francisco, top industry voices from Ciena, Acacia, Coherent, Eoptolink, and TeraHop explored...
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