September 30, 2011
Optical component startup Kaiam Corp. is using the ESI-1010 10G shunt laser driver from Ensphere Solutions in Kaiam’s new 40-Gbps compact QSFP+ transmit optical subassembly (TOSA), Ensphere reports.
September 30, 2011
Multiplex Inc. announced at OFC/NFOEC earlier this month unveiled transmit optical subassemblies (TOSAs) for serial 40-Gbps data transmission based on the company’s electro-absorption modulated laser (EML) technology.
September 30, 2011
Opnext (NASDAQ: OPXT) sources say that, contrary to what Lightwave reported March 11, the company sold an implementation of its 100-Gbps ASIC intellectual property (IP) to Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), not the IP itself.
September 28, 2011
Tabula, MorethanIP, and NetLogic Microsystems (NASDAQ: NETL) have combined to offer what they assert is the first programmable 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) chipset that can be produced for less than $500.
September 28, 2011
FPGA vendor Xilinx Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) announced it has acquired Modelware, a provider of traffic management/packet processing silicon intellectual property (IP) cores. Simultaneously, Xilinx unveiled FPGA-based 100-Gbps traffic management reference designs based on its Virtex-6 HTX FPGA.
September 28, 2011
Vitesse Semiconductor Corp., a provider of IC solutions for carrier and enterprise networks, introduced a multi-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) optical transport network (OTN) mapper family, including the VSC8492 and VSC8494.