Broadex Technologies on Monday announced that it is sampling high performance 400G QSFP-DD DR4 transceivers, in both 500m and 2km variants, based on a new state-of-the-art silicon photonics (SiPh) platform.
Broadex Technologies is a provider of optoelectronic components based in China. Last year the company acquired the UK operations of optical transceiver vendor Kaiam.
The new modules use SiPh chips that integrate a number of active and passive optoelectronic components, 3D packaging technology and industry-leading 7nm DSP chips. Packaged with proprietary low loss optical coupling techniques, the modules feature excellent signal quality and channel consistency with very low bit error rate (10-9 without FEC) and TDECQ (as low as 0.6dB). The new modules are uniquely suited to enable datacenter operators to address increasing bandwidth demand by upgrading 100G-centric network to 400G, said the Company.
Dr. Wei Zhu, CEo, Broadex Technologies
400G EML-based solutions have been challenged to meet the volume expectations, which has become a constraint on the evolution of datacenter networks toward higher bandwidth interconnects.
