AOI announces interoperability of 400G SR8 and 400G DR4 2km transceivers breakout to 100G FR with Innovium’s TERALYNX switch

Applied Optoelectronics Inc (AOI) of Sugar Land, TX, USA – a designer and manufacturer of optical components, modules and equipment for fiber access networks in the Internet data-center, cable TV broadband, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and telecom markets – and Innovium Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a provider of networking switch silicon for data centers) have announced interoperability of AOI’s 400G QSFP-DD SR8 and 400G QSFP-DD DR4 2km transceivers breakout to 100G FR QSFP28 with Innovium’s 12.8Tbps TERALYNX switch application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC). The interoperability is being demonstrated at Computex 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan (28-31 May).

As data-center operators continue to demand greater bandwidth, the migration from 100G to 400G will be the next vital step in data-center architecture, says AOI. 400G transceivers can interconnect between an existing 100G network and the next-generation 400G network. They can be routed to four 100G QSFP28 DR/FR transceivers, allowing data centers to operate with a mixture of 400G and 100G products in the aggregation and core layers within the data center.

“AOI is very pleased to work with Innovium to demonstrate the ability of our family of 400G solutions to work seamlessly in TERALYNX-based switches,” says David Chen, AOI’s senior director of product management. “Our customers are constantly looking ahead to best-in-breed switch and interconnect solutions and we are proud to support our switch-fabric ASIC partners in ensuring flawless interoperability with our transceivers,” he adds.

“As data-center customers add 400G connectivity to their 100G infrastructure, they are looking for validated and interoperable solutions to gain confidence and reduce deployment timelines,” notes Amit Sanyal, Innovium’s VP of product management & marketing.

TERALYNX offers what is claimed to be the world’s fastest 12.8 Terabits/sec throughput while delivering line-rate programmability, large on-chip buffers, breakthrough telemetry and low latency. It supports 10GbE to 400GbE Ethernet and delivers 128 ports of 100GbE, 64 ports of 200GbE or 32 ports of 400GbE in a single device. Innovium adds that its patented ground-up design in TERALYNX provides advantages in programmability, robust tunneling, low latency, power efficiency and advanced analytics/telemetry that are essential for scale data-centers.

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