SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- NeoPhotonics
Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading designer and manufacturer
of advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit based modules and
subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications
networks, today announced that it has sampled its new 400ZR
ClearLight™ OSFP transceiver to a
leading Cloud related customer. This product utilizes
NeoPhotonics Silicon Photonics Coherent Optical Subassembly (COSA)
and low power consumption, ultra-narrow linewidth Nano-ITLA tunable
laser, combined with the latest generation of 7 nm node DSP
(digital signal processing) technology, to provide full 400ZR
transmission in a standard data center OSFP form factor that can be
plugged directly into switches and routers. This greatly simplifies
and cost reduces data center interconnect (DCI) networks by
enabling the elimination of a layer of network equipment and a set
of short reach client-side transceivers.
As hyper-scale Cloud architectures have evolved from
concentrated data centers to multiple locations distributed around
a metropolitan area, the need for seamless interconnection between
data centers located at distances up to 120 km apart has grown
dramatically. NeoPhotonics ClearLight OSFP transceivers plug
directly into the front panel of a switch or router to provision
400G connections over metro distances in a manner virtually the
same as connections inside one data center. It is compliant
with the OIF 400ZR Implementation Agreement and is interoperable
with other manufacturers' 400ZR modules that utilize a standard
forward error correction (FEC) encoder and decoder.
NeoPhotonics ClearLight OSFP modules are built using
internally-produced integrated coherent optical solutions from
NeoPhotonics, including its new compact and low power consumption
Nano-ITLA and Silicon Photonics COSA. This new OSFP module is
capable of tuning to 75 GHz or 100GHz spaced wavelength channels,
as specified in the OIF agreement, and operates in 400ZR mode for
Cloud DCI applications. For longer metro reaches, the
module is designed to support 400ZR+ modes.
This ClearLight OSFP module can also be optionally
provisioned to tune over the entire "Super C-Band", or up to 6.4
Terahertz, increasing the capacity of an optical fiber by up to 50%
over standard implementations. NeoPhotonics provides arrayed
waveguide gratings for multiplexing and de-multiplexing with 75GHz
and 100GHz wavelength channel spacings, supporting 85 and 64
channels respectively, with filter responses optimized for high
baud rate coherent signals.
"This new OSFP module joins our
ClearLight™ DCO transceiver line and
takes full advantage of our highly integrated and low power
consumption Nano-Tunable Laser and Silicon Photonics COSA to enable
a full metro coherent transceiver in the form factor and electrical
interface designed for short reach interconnections inside the data
center," said Tim Jenks, Chairman and CEO
of NeoPhotonics. "We are now sampling these OSFP transceivers
so that customers can evaluate the simplicity, cost and operating
savings that can be realized by plugging coherent optics directly
into switches and routers, and we are applying this same technology
to additional form factors such as QSFP-DD", concluded Mr.
Jenks.
About NeoPhotonics
NeoPhotonics is a leading designer and manufacturer of
optoelectronic solutions for the highest speed communications
networks in Cloud, data center and telecom applications. The
Company's products enable cost-effective, high-speed data
transmission and efficient allocation of bandwidth over
communications networks. NeoPhotonics maintains headquarters in
San Jose, California and ISO
9001:2015 certified engineering and manufacturing facilities in
Silicon Valley (USA), Japan and China. For additional
information visit www.neophotonics.com.
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