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  • IPtronics, the leading supplier of silicon for 4x10G and 12x10G, offers a new chipset focused on use in pluggable transceivers Menlo Park, CA January 2011: IPtronics is pleased to announce availability of the quad IPTA12G4C TIA and quad IPVD12G4C VCSEL Driver for pluggable module applications. The chipset is offered as ...
    Posted 27 Jan 2011 03:40 by David Coleman
  • JDSU Introduces Next-Generation 40G Cable Certifier for Enterprise Networks Milpitas, Calif., January 17, 2011 – In conjunction with the BICSI Winter Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, JDSU today introduced its next-generation cable certifier, the JDSU Certifier40G. The innovative handheld ...
    Posted 18 Jan 2011 01:42 by David Coleman
  • Siemon Announces 40Gb/s Hybrid QSFP+ to SFP+ Fanout Cable Assembly for High-Speed Data Center Interconnects January 5, 2011 : Watertown, Connecticut — Siemon, a leading global manufacturer of IT network cabling and infrastructure systems, announces the release of a new QSFP+ (Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus ...
    Posted 14 Jan 2011 05:21 by David Coleman
  • AlpenIO Introduces New Line of LightFinity Active Optical Products for Infiniband QDR/FDR, 40GbE and PCI Express Gen3 SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - November 15, 2010) - AlpenIO, developing the next generation optical interconnect technology, announced today, at SC10, new optical technology and four new optical products. AlpenIO's new cable ...
    Posted 14 Jan 2011 05:23 by David Coleman
  • Fulcrum Announces 1 Billion Packet Per Second 10G/40G Ethernet Switch Chips for Efficient Scaling of Virtualized Data Center Networks CALABASAS, CA. – Nov. 1, 2010 – Fulcrum Microsystems today announced the FocalPoint® FM6000 series of fully integrated wire-speed 10G and 40G Ethernet switch chips, which incorporate the company’s new ...
    Posted 14 Jan 2011 05:24 by David Coleman
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Standards News

  • Leading industry peers join forces to develop Low-cost 100G Multi-Source Agreement FREMONT, Calif., December 7, 2010 –Brocade© (NASDAQ: BRCD), Google Inc., JDSU ((NASDAQ: JDSU) and Santur Corporation have announced the formation of a Multi-Source Agreement (the “10X10 MSA”) to establish ...
    Posted 7 Jan 2011 09:24 by David Coleman
  • OIF Finalizes Implementation Agreements for 100G Modules and Control Plane Logging and Auditing Fremont, CA – July 14, 2010 – The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) members have finalized two implementation agreements (IAs) addressing the key electro-mechanical aspects of a 100G long-haul transmission module ...
    Posted 3 Jan 2011 14:26 by David Coleman
  • CFP MSA Releases Updated Hardware and Firmware Documents Defining 40Gbps and 100Gbps Optical Transceivers FREMONT, CA, June 28, 2010 (Business Wire) – Avago Technologies (NASDAQ: AVGO), Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR), Opnext, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPXT) and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. today announced that Revision 1.4 ...
    Posted 3 Jan 2011 14:02 by David Coleman
  • The OIF Approves 100G Transmitter Implementation Agreement Fremont, CA – March 22, 2010 – The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) membership has voted to approve an implementation agreement (IA) for the 100G Integrated Polarization Multiplexed (PM) Quadrature Modulated Transmitter. The ...
    Posted 23 Mar 2010 08:52 by David Coleman
  • [802.3_40GSMF] IEEE 40GE SMF PMD Study Group meeting material posted Presentations for the January Interim Meeting of the IEEE 40GE SMF PMD Study Group have been uploaded to the Study Group website.  For the general meeting material, please see http ...
    Posted 21 Jan 2010 09:10 by David Coleman
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Market info

  • VI Systems completes national project on 40 Gbit/s VCSEL components BERLIN, Germany, January 12, 2010 : VI Systems GmbH, a leader in ultra-high speed engines for data- and tele-communications reported the successful realization of the challenging goals of the ...
    Posted 14 Jan 2011 04:24 by David Coleman
  • Molex Purchases Luxtera's Silicon Photonics-based Active Optical Cable (AOC) Business; Partners on Future AOC Development Lisle, Ill. and Carlsbad, Calif. USA – January 11, 2011 – Molex Incorporated (NASDAQ:MOLX and MOLXA), a global leader in the high speed interconnect marketplace, today announced that it has completed ...
    Posted 14 Jan 2011 01:15 by David Coleman
  • Extreme Networks and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to Establish 40 GbE Links for Expansive Climate Research at SC/10 NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR) today announced that it is working with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) at the Super Computing 2010 (SC ...
    Posted 11 Jan 2011 09:10 by David Coleman
  • Force10 Networks Announces the Industry’s First End-to-End 40 Gigabit Ethernet Solution for Converged, High Performance and Automated Data Centers SAN JOSE, Calif., November 2, 2010 – Force10 Networks, Inc., a global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business, today ...
    Posted 11 Jan 2011 09:06 by David Coleman
  • Extreme Networks, SARA and CERN Complete World's First Long-Haul 40 GbE Link Across Europe With First to Market 40GbE Switch AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, Oct 14, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Revealing the future of high performance networking, Extreme Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXTR) today announced that the world's first ...
    Posted 10 Jan 2011 00:00 by David Coleman
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40G Ethernet Blog

  • 12th October 2009 : 40G Ethernet component and product update September 2009 was great month for the advancement of 40GEthernet as it saw several significant product releases, both at the Intel Developer forum and at ECOC, Europes premier show for ...
    Posted 7 Jan 2011 09:50 by David Coleman
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    Posted 12 Oct 2009 10:53 by David Coleman
  • 8th May 2009 : Overview of the XAUI, XLAUI and CAUI: Part1 Every speed step made in the Ethernet standard has required a new front end interface to help the digital MAC framers interface to Physical layer devices and to preserve the ...
    Posted 9 Jun 2009 13:44 by David Coleman
  • 27th April 2009 : Using the 40/100G CFP MSA for nx10G Ethernet When the 40/100G CFP MSA (http://www.cfp-msa.org) first came out in March I initially commented that it seemed optimized for 100G applications, though its size would ...
    Posted 8 May 2009 11:35 by David Coleman
  • 19th April 2009 : 40G Ethernet over DWDM : Part2 With the technical barriers of how to map a 40G Ethernet signal into an OTU3 pretty much resolved (see part 1), early adopters will face the problem that current 40G ...
    Posted 27 Apr 2009 09:26 by David Coleman
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