October 21, 2011
It looks like Opnext will have a race on its hands to be the first to offer a 100-Gbps DP-QPSK transponder after all. Fujitsu Optical Components Ltd. has announced that they too will have such a module available by April 2012, the same month Opnext has promised to deliver theirs.
October 21, 2011
Finisar Corp. (NASDAQ: FNSR) is using ECOC as a springboard to launch several new products, including what the company asserts is the first CFP-FR module that offers error-free operation at 40 Gbps. Other new products making their debut at ECOC include an 80-km SFP+ optical transceiver module and a GPON version of its “PON on a stick” product, an outgrowth of its acquisition of Broadway Networks in September of last year.
October 21, 2011
Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA) has unveiled the Xcellon-Lava, the latest version of its high-speed Ethernet (HSE) test family. Xcellon-Lava offers two 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) interfaces in a single-slot configuration, with enhanced capabilities for routing, switching, and application-layer testing.
October 21, 2011
Inphi Corp. (NYSE: IPHI) has announced the availability of a pair of 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) CMOS PHYs. Based on Inphi's iPHY architecture announced in March, the IN112510 100GbE CMOS Gearbox and IN012525 100GbE CMOS Clock Data Recovery (CDR) chipsets integrate multiple channels along with transmit and receive functions.
October 20, 2011
Polatis has added a programmable shutter to the software features of its DIrectLight optical matrix switches. The feature is designed to enable users to introduce repeatable, precisely timed disconnections on multiple fiber paths through the optical switch with individually programmable shutter intervals between 10 ms to 10,000 ms.
October 20, 2011
In a post-deadline paper delivered at last month’s ECOC conference in Geneva, researchers at EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO, TSX: EXF) and Chalmers University in Goteborg, Sweden described the use of the company’s PSO-200 Optical Modulation Analyzer to measure a 528-Gbps transmission using polarization-multiplexed 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM). The success of the demonstration highlights the capabilities of the company’s use of optical sampling for the PSO-200, EXFO asserts.