Source Photonics expands high-speed data-center and routing range

Source Photonics Inc of West Hills, CA, USA (which provides optical connectivity products for data centers, metro and access networks) has added a wide range of new products to its portfolio of single-mode products for data-center and routing applications. The new products leverage the firm’s multi-year investment in 28Gbaud and 53Gbaud PAM4 developments and support applications such as the 400G DR4, FR4 and LR8, 100G DR/FR, and 50G LR and ER. The firm is accepting orders now for production shipments in second-quarter 2019.

Source Photonics has also announced the availability of its second-generation 100G QSFP28 CWDM4, which leverages its manufacturing process developed to scale 400G volumes. Coupled with 100G LAN-WDM expansion from LR4 to OTU4, 4WDM-40, and I-temp products, Source Photonics is able to offer a full portfolio of products to cloud, telecom and enterprise operators and OEMs.

The development of novel manufacturing technologies and substantial investments support the firm’s >1million units’ annual capacity for the 50-400G product lines, meeting the increasing demand of large-scale customers.

“Source Photonics led the market deployment of small form-factor 10km products for several generations,” claims Ed Ulrichs, director of PLM at Source Photonics. “The performance of our advanced 50G, 100G and 400G PAM4-based products proves our technical and production capabilities to lead scale of the entire 500m to 40km portfolio.”

Source Photonics’ portfolio of data-center and routing products includes:

400G LR8 supporting 400GE links up to 10km; the platform is expandable to support 400G-ER8 for 400G links up to 40km by 2020;
400G DR4 supporting 400GE links for 500m as well as enhanced reach of up to 2km; the platform supports breakout into 100G-DR/FR as well as high-density 100GE links;
400G FR4 supporting 400GE links up to 2km over duplex single-mode fiber;
400G SR8 supporting 400GE links up to 100m (OM4) over multi-mode fiber;
100G DR/FR supporting single-channel 100G connectivity and supporting breakout from 400G DR4;
100G LR4 supporting 100GE links up to 10km with support for Ethernet only and OTU4 as well as enhanced performance for E-temp and I-temp applications;
100G 4WDM-40 supporting 100GE links up to 40km with Ethernet only and OTU4 support;
100G CWDM4 supporting 100GE links up to 2km over duplex single-mode fiber; and
100G SR4 supporting 100GE links up to 100m (OM4) over multi-mode fiber.

At the Optical Fiber Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2019) conference in San Diego (5-7 March), Source Photonics gave a live traffic demonstration of its latest 400G-ER8, 400G-LR8 and 400G-DR4 QSFP-DD solutions, as well as its 100G-FR and 50G-ER QSFP28.

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