Optical

Keysight, in collaboration with the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Riga Technical University (RTU), demonstrated the first 310 GBaud rates using on-off keying modulation...

At #OFC23, Broadcom announced sampling of its 5nm 100G/lane optical PAM-4 DSP PHY with integrated transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and laser driver. The new BCM85812, which is optimized for 800G DR8,...

The Open XR Forum demonstrated long-haul point-to-point transmission between QSFP56-DD coherent transceivers over 1,400 km at 400 Gb/s using 16QAM modulation, as well as error-free performance at 300 Gb/s using...

Adtran demonstrated its Coherent 100ZR QSFP28 coherent pluggable operating over a DWDM metro ring configured with equipment at the Adtran booth as well as the Coherent Corp. and OFCnet booths....

Infinera achieved a 400G single-wavelength transmission using a 400G QSFP-DD intelligent coherent pluggable across 2,400 km of Corning’s TXF optical fiber — double the previous record. The demonstration featured Infinera’s...

Infinera and Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier) announced a record-setting transmission of 400 Gb/s using a QSFP-DD pluggable coherent transceiver over 1,800 km of SMF-28 fiber in a live production network. ...

Windstream Wholesale completed a live network trial that transmitted a 1 Terabit wave over 541 km over its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) network between Dallas and Tulsa using digital...

The QSFP-DD Multi Source Agreement (MSA) plans to develop a new specification extending the bandwidth of the form factor to 1.6 Tbps. The new specification will leverage 200 Gbps serial...

Adtran completed a field trial of 800 Gbit/s single-carrier transport, achieving error-free transmission over a record distance of 2,220km in NYSERNet’s production network.  The test route passed through 14 route-and-select...

Ayar Labs will demonstrate the first 4 terabit-per-second (Tbps) bidirecti onal Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical solution at the upcoming Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) in San Diego on March...

Infinera unveiled a new portfolio of coherent optical subsystems and coherent pluggable optical engines, including a line of high-performance transmit-receive optical sub-assemblies (TROSAs), innovative programmable digital signal processors (DSPs), and...

Infinera previewed its next generation GX Series Compact Modular Platform, which will feature a new 1.2 Tb/s optical engine ICE7 and a multi-haul optical line system. The next gen GX...

ColorChip introduced chip-on-board technology for active electrical cables, enabling high density 1.6T OSFP-XD with significant improvements in both performance and cost.  This innovation addresses the challenges of density, reach, power...