Ciena, HyperLight, and McGill University have achieved the industry’s first 3.2Tbps O-band IMDD transmission using eight 448Gbps lanes over a 2km distance—setting a new benchmark for intra-data center connectivity. The...
Marvell is advancing short-reach interconnects for AI infrastructure with the launch of its 1.6T and 800G Alaska® A PAM4 DSPs for Active Electrical Cables (AECs), showcased at OFC 2025 in...
Semtech introduced 200G per channel PMD (Physical Medium Dependent) ICs for 1.6T modules and developing 400G per channel solutions for upcoming 3.2T connectivity. These advancements respond to the growing demand...
At OFC 2025, members of the Open ROADM Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) demonstrated the first multi-vendor 800G pluggable ROADM link and a fully interoperable optical transport network reaching data rates up...
Eoptolink Technology is showcasing its 1.6T Linear Receive Optics (LRO) transceiver at OFC 2025, marking a step forward in power-efficient optical module design. The transceiver operates at 212Gbps per lambda...
San Francisco, March 31, 2025 — In a keynote at the Optica Executive Forum, Amin Vahdat, VP and Fellow at Google, delivered an urgent message for this week’s OFC 2025...
At the 2025 Optica Executive Forum in San Francisco, industry leaders from MACOM, Marvell, Broadcom, and Astera Labs gathered to tackle one of the defining challenges of next-generation data centers:...
Marvell Technology has unveiled a 1.6T silicon photonics light engine designed for low-power, rack-scale optical interconnects in AI networks. Demonstrated at OFC 2025 in a 1.6T OSFP linear pluggable optics...
The Linear Pluggable Optics Multi-Source Agreement (LPO MSA) Group has released its completed specification for 100Gbps-per-lane single-mode optical data transmission, targeting 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G Ethernet connectivity. The finalized...
Casela Technologies is showcasing its new ELSA-16 platform at OFC 2025 in San Francisco this week. The pluggable 16-channel External Laser Source (ELS) system is designed to meet the growing...
Adtran has introduced the AccessWave50, a full C-band tunable 50 Gbps SFP56 PAM4 DWDM pluggable transceiver, marking the industry’s first of its kind. Designed to meet the rising demands of...
Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR) announced the general availability of its 100G ZR QSFP28-DCO coherent transceiver, the first in the industry to deliver 0dBm optical output power in the compact QSFP28...
Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR) announced general availability of its 800G ZR/ZR+ transceiver in the QSFP-DD form factor. The module is designed for metro, regional, and data center interconnect applications, supporting...
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