Industry-leading 400G silicon photonics transceiver
Broadex Technologies (Shenzhen Stock Exchange 300548), a leading provider of optoelectronic components to the telecom and datacom markets, today 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. The 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 Broadex modules are uniquely suited to enable datacenter operators to address increasing bandwidth demand by upgrading 100G-centric network to 400G.
“Broadex has been working with industry leading partners for the past year to develop a 400G SiPh transceiver that offers superb product performance and improved yield to enable high volume production. I am glad that results obtained so far, including live interoperability tests, indicate that we are on the right path to provide datacenter customers with a very cost-effective product to support their growing bandwidth demand.” said Dr. Wei Zhu, CEO of 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. With the development of SiPh technology and its inherent potential in volume manufacturing, we expect our SiPh modules will become the preferred solution.”
Availability
Broadex’s 400G SiPh transceivers are available for sampling now and are expected to begin volume production in the second half of this year.