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Altera’s FPGA family offers co- packaged optical interface options A ltera’s latest Stratix 10 FPGA family uses advanced semiconductor packaging techniques that paves the way for co-packaged optical interfaces. The chip company recognises that future are also looking at optical transceivers directly connected to the FPGA,” said Davies. Such links would simplify interfacing to OTN mappers, and benefit data centre designs that use optical links between racks and for the top-of-rack switch. (SoC) devices that include a quad-core 64-bit architecture Cortex-A53 ARM processor alongside the programmable logic. The Stratix 10 family is
Infinera reports improved Q2 2015 financial results Infinera Corporation has released financial results for the second quarter of 2015, which ended June 27, 2015. Revenue for the quarter was $207.3m compared to $186.9m in the first quarter of 2015 and $165.4m in the second quarter of 2014. Tom Fallon, Infinera’s Chief Executive Officer, commented, “Our outstanding second quarter results were driven by robust demand across multiple verticals, as customers continued to build next generation networks with Infinera. Differentiated products, exceptional customer experience and a vertical business model enable us to continue to grow our top line rapidly and our bottom line even faster.” ADVA unveils CloudConnect ADVA Optical Networking has unveiled its FSP 3000 CloudConnect, a data centre interconnect product designed to cater for the differing needs of the data centre players and to scale to 100 terabit. The FSP 3000 CloudConnect comes in several configurations, with all the platforms using the QuadFlex card that has an 800 gigabit throughput: up to 400 gigabit client-side interfaces and a 400 gigabit line rate. The QuadFlex card is only a half rack unit (RU) wide and up to seven can be fitted in ADVA’s 4 rack unit SH4R CloudConnect platform, for a total line-side transport capacity of 2.8 Tbit/s. Broadcom launch 10G EPON cable residential gateway Semiconductor manufacturer, Broadcom, has released a DOCSIS-compatible, 10G Eth- ernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) residential gateway reference design that allows cable multiple system operators (MSOs) to provide multi-gigabit speeds for high-speed video and Internet services through an FTTH network, without ex- pensive upgrades implications. The platform combines Broadcom’s BCM55030, a 10G/10G EPON optical network unit (ONU) system-on- a-chip (SoC), with the widely deployed BCM33843 DOCSIS 3.0 cable gateway device. NEWS IN BRIEF
implemented using Intel’s 14nm FinFET process and supports up to 5.5 million logic elements, nearly 5x larger than Altera’s 20nm Arria family of FPGAs which has 1.15 million logic elements. Intel announced in June its intention to acquire Altera for US $16.7 billion. Altera will have engineering samples of the Stratix 10 towards the end of 2015, before being shipped to customers.
S wiss high precision introduced the DiaLink solution. A product designed to provide efficient, comfortable and smart fibre installations, with no splicing, or complicated connector assembly required. Users simply pull in pre- assembled fibre optic cables with DiaLink connectors on both ends of the required link. The connections are made at the floor or wall box in the work area, with the other end of the fibre optic cable connected to the ODF (Optical Distribution Frame), via DiaLink connections. The excess length of cable can be stored in the DiaLink fibre storage box. solutions manufacturer, Diamond SA, have FPGAs will need to support a variety of line speeds and modulation schemes.“You can’t build one transceiver that fits all of these requirements and even if you could, it would not be an optimised design,” said Craig Davis, senior product marketing manager at Altera. Using this approach, a customer can add to their design the desired interface, including optical interfaces as well as electrical ones. “We
With the system-in-package integration, different FPGAs can be built without having to create a new expensive mask set each time. “You can build a modular lego-block FPGA and all that it has different is the packaged substrate,” said Davies. Altera has detailed two variants of the Stratix 10 family: 10 FPGAs and 10 system-on-chip
Fibre to the desk simplicity by DiaLink, from Diamond.
The compact DiaLink interface enables installation in crowded cable ducts and protects against contamination, and the small cable diameter allows for smaller and lighter installation cable spools. Tensile force of up to 300N can be achieved, thanks to the tractive cap. The active components in the network determine the network speed. The faster the better. Scientific studies have shown that a fast reaction time has a positive impact on working efficiency, thus, making the quality of the components in the core or edge area crucial. The Fibredesk stations however, can do even better
and it is not just data, or USB modules that can be integrated, with digital power component integration also possible, allowing the user to turn their office space into a fully functioning ‘smart working’ environment. Efficient, comfortable and smart installations, with no splicing or complicated assembly.
R&M launch integrated HD traffic access point module
S wiss connectivity systems provider, R&M, has introduced an HD traffic access point (TAP) module, for network and application performance supervision. The module enables ongoing performance
like 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 16G Fibre Channel.R&M have said that, by combining the functionality of an optical tap and physical layer monitoring in one easy-to-use structured cabling module, the HD TAP module is a market first.
monitoring using passive optical tapping that is fully integrated into the cabling infrastructure and uses an advanced optical splitter to reduce insertion loss and modal noise and enable high- performance applications,
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