September 13, 2011
PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS) has unveiled its latest EPON OLT system-on-chip (SoC) family. The quad-port PAS5400 devices integrate four 1-Gbps EPON MACs and feature integrated traffic management and packet processing, power-save modes that allow remote power down of customer premises equipment, in-band optical fiber testing, and support for mobile backhaul as well as fiber to the home (FTTH).
September 13, 2011
Broadcom Corp. (Nasdaq:BRCM), a provider of semiconductor systems for wired and wireless communications, unveiled its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC) series designed to address the accelerating Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) market.
September 13, 2011
Cortina Systems, Inc. has unveiled CS803x Integrated Access Platform, the fourth generation of its EPON optical network unit (ONU) chip technology. The CS803x features an embedded 500-MHz CPU and multiple integrated memory options that saves the cost of a separate memory device. It also complies with SIEPON's power saving feature and supports the new IEEE Energy Efficient Ethernet standard.
September 12, 2011
NeoPhotonics Corp. (NYSE:NPTN) says it has begun sampling its first 40-Gbps transceiver module for 40 Gigabit Ethernet client side applications. Compatible with the IEEE 40GBase-LR4 specifications, the pluggable CFP optical transceiver module operates over 10-km of singlemode fiber.
September 12, 2011
Communications semiconductor developers ClariPhy Communications, Inc. and Cortina Systems, Inc. say that designers can now effectively pair ClariPhy’s CL4010, a 40-Gbps single-chip coherent transceiver, and Cortina’s CS604x and CS600x 40G/10G Optical Transport Network (OTN) Processor families in coherent-enabled 40-Gbps optical equipment designs.
September 12, 2011
Santur announced the general availability of its 100-Gbps CFP optical modules compliant with 10X10 Multi-Source Agreement (MSA). The 10X10 MSA, driven largely by Google, aims to create a lower-cost, more easily developed alternative to the IEEE’s 100GBase-LR4 optical module for singlemode high-end data center applications (see “Google joins tech vendors in 10x10G 100 Gbps optical transceiver multi-source agreement”).