Open XR Forum touts new service provider members, whitepaper
Open XR Forum, which promotes the development and use of point-to-multipoint coherent optical transceivers, says that AT&T, Colt, Crown Castle, Telefónica, and Zayo have joined on as new members. The group also released the "Open XR Concept Introductory White Paper," available for download from the Open XR Forum site.
The new members join BT, Infinera, Liberty Global, Lumen Technologies, Verizon, and Windstream on the membership roster. Meanwhile, the whitepaper makes the case for point-to-multipoint optics and delves into technical design considerations, network management and control concepts, and application scenarios.
Infinera helped found the Open XR Forum last year after announcing its XR optics point-to-multipoint coherent optical transceiver technology in 2019 (see “Infinera unveils XR optics single-source coherent point-to-multipoint transmission technology” and “Infinera, service providers create Open XR Forum”). The group aims to drive the standardization of network interfaces and electro-mechanical hardware interfaces, demonstrate interoperability, establish multi-sourcing potential, and develop and publish new specifications as needed. Infinera is the only company that has announced an XR optics module (see "Infinera to offer ICE-XR optics coherent pluggable transceivers in 2022"), although Lumentum also has revealed plans to bring such transceivers to market; II-VI is at least supporting the development of XR optics modules (see "Infinera reveals II-VI, Lumentum as XR optics partners").
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