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Ciena has announced the latest generation of its WaveLogic deliver a 50% reduction in space and power per bit compared to its 800G technology. CIENA’S WAVELOGIC 1.6TBPS COHERENT OPTICS longest links, with a 15% improvement in spectral efficiency compared to the previous generation. WL6e will also
technology. Optimised for high- capacity transport required with next-generation routing data paths and associated wholesale services. Ciena says WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) integrates new coherent DSP innovations to provide the highest capacity over fibre. It supports 1.6Tbps single-carrier wavelengths for metro ROADM networks, 800Gb/s across the
COHERENT’S 800G 140 GBAUD OPTICAL SUBASSEMBLY
datacenter interconnects and metro networks. The device is designed to meet the demand for efficient bandwidth upgrades in datacenter interconnects and optical transport networks. The device is the industry’s first to enable 800 Gbps ZR/ OpenZR+ transmission in datacenter interconnects.
At ECOC 2023, Coherent launched a 140 GBaud integrated coherent transmitter-receiver optical subassembly (IC-TROSA), which the company says is the industry’s first to enable 800G QSFP-DD and OSFP digital coherent optics (DCO) pluggable transceivers for high-speed
AVICENA DEBUTS WORLD’S SMALLEST 1TBPS OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER
throughput, shoreline density and low power,
Avicena debuted what it claims is the world’s smallest 1Tbps optical transceiver as part its
unlocking the performance of processors, memory, and sensors.The LightBundleTM interconnect architecture is based on arrays of GaN microLEDs that leverage the microLED display ecosystem and can be integrated directly onto compact high- performance CMOS ICs.
LightBundleTM multi-Tbps chip-to-chip interconnect technology at the SuperComputing event, held in November. Avicena says its microLED-based LightBundle architecture supports unprecedented
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