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JDSU targets 2012 for ‘Self Aware Networks’ product

October 22, 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.

OE Solutions CWDM bi-directional pluggable modules target CPRI and OBSAI

October 22, 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 Oclaro tout 40-Gbps coherent

October 22, 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.

MultiPhy offers 100G PHY IC for networks

October 22, 2011

Startup optical semiconductor vendor MultiPhy Ltd has announced the MP1100Q, a 100-Gbps DEMUX receiver chip in CMOS designed for 4x25-Gbps approaches to lower-cost 100-Gbps in the metro.

Opnext targets April 2012 for 100G DP-QPSK coherent transponder module production

October 22, 2011

Opnext, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPXT) looks like it remains in front in the race to provide the first 100-Gbps optical transponder module based on dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift-keying (DP-QPSK) with coherent detection. The company officially introduced the OTM-100 module today at ECOC and asserts the transponder will be in mass production by next April.The 5x7-inch module, which complies with the Optical Internetworking Forum’s (OIF’s) multisource agreement (MSA), is based on what the company call’s “second generation coherent technology.”

Capella offers CR-EX 1x20 WSS

October 21, 2011

Capella Intelligent Subsystems added its name to the list of 1x20 wavelength-selective switch (WSS) suppliers this week with the unveiling of the CR-EX. The 1x20 WSS offers an integrated monitoring capability, wide passbands, high extinction ratio, and low cross talk and insertion loss for all 21 ports, Capella asserts.

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