SiFotonics’ 8x100G-ER1-nWDM optical transceivers reach general availability
SiFotonics Technologies Co., Ltd. has announced its 8x100G-ER1 nWDM optical transceivers are now generally available. The QSFP28 optical modules are the first of their kind, the company asserts, and will support 4x100G on a single fiber or 8x100G on a fiber pair. SiFotonics expects the optical transceivers will find use in 5G and data center network applications.
SiFotonics introduced the optical transceivers last spring (see “SiFotonics offers 8x100G ER1 nWDM QSFP28 optical transceivers”).
“The 8x100G-ER1-nWDM QSFP28 product line leverage on SiFotonics industry-leading Ge/Si APD high sensitivity receiver technology. This product solution enables customers to deploy multiple 100G over extended reach with single fiber, without any active amplification or dispersion compensation, enjoying advantages of low latency, low power, and low cost in standard QSFP28 form factor, and support operations over extended temperature range required by outside plant applications,” said Dr. Rang-Chen Yu, senior vice president of SiFotonics.
“In recent years, SiFotonics has significantly broadened silicon photonics solutions to customers in broad 5G and data center applications. For example, we have shipped over 100,000 coherent photonic integrated circuits to Tier 1 module makers in 2021. In addition, we have started sampling customers with 100G/400G integrated coherent transmitter-receiver subassemblies (IC-TROSAs) and a 400G-DR4 Silicon Photonics OE engine,” added Dr. Dong Pan, founder and CEO of SiFotonics.
SiFotonics will display the optical transceivers, as well as other elements of its product portfolio, at OFC 2022 at San Diego Convention Center, Booth 3951.
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