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Oclaro Brings zero-chirp Tunable XFP To The Market

November 3, 2011

Oclaro Inc. has added a zero-chirp full-band tunable XFP to its tunable optical transceiver module portfolio. Now in production, the zero-chirp tunable XFP provides equivalent performance to 300-pin optical transceiver modules in a smaller pluggable, MSA footprint with low power consumption, according to Oclaro.

OIF approves the CEI 3.0 implementation agreement

November 3, 2011

Members of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) have approved the Common Electrical I/O (CEI) 3.0 implementation agreement (IA). The IA defines electrical layer interfaces with signaling rates up to 28 Gbaud/s. The new IA one ups the previous CEI IA that addressed signaling rates up to 11.2 Gbaud/s.

Finisar Offers Flexgrid gridless 1x20 wavelength selective switch

November 3, 2011

Finisar Corp. has unveiled a 1x20 wavelength-selective switch (WSS) which leverages the company’s Flexgrid technology to provide “gridless” flexibility. The company sees the new 1x20 WSS with Flexgrid as an enabler of high-port-count, colorless, directionless, and contentionless (CDC) ROADMs.

JDSU targets 2012 for Self Aware Networks Product Suite

November 2, 2011

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) has announced at ECOC its intension to offer a suite of five optical communications products in the second half of 2012 targeted at what it calls “Self Aware Networks.” The suite will include a wavelength-selective switch (WSS) two-pack, dual multicast switch, optical channel monitor, hybrid Raman/Erbium amplifier, and an EDFA array.

CWDM directional pluggable modules target CPRI and OBSAI

November 2, 2011

OE Solutions Co. Ltd. has announced the production of single-fiber bi-directional SFP optical transceivers for CPRI and OBSAI standards with CWDM wavelengths. For the OBSAI application, the rates are 6.144, 3.072, 1.536, and 0.768 Gbps. For the CPRI application, the rates are 6.144, 3.072, 2.4576, 1.2288, and 0.6144 Gbps.

ClariPhy and Oclaro tout 40-Gbps coherent

November 2, 2011

Chip vendor ClariPhy Communications and module and component supplier Oclaro Inc. (NASDAQ:OCLR) are talking up coherent approaches to 40-Gbps networking at ECOC. ClariPhy announced at the show that its LightSpeed CL4010 Coherent system on a chip (SoC) is now shipping in volume, thanks to its use by Oclaro in that company’s 40-Gbps MI 5000XM coherent modules. The two companies also announced a joint reference design that combines the LightSpeed CL4010 with Oclaro’s Oclaro narrow-linewidth ITLA, 40-Gbps coherent receiver, and 40-Gbps lithium niobate modulator.

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