While you are walking the OFC 2023 trade show floor in San Diego, you may notice VIAVI ONT-800 setups in various booths, helping manufacturers demonstrate the performance of their products to their own customers. One manufacturer using VIAVI gear is InnoLight Technology Ltd., a global manufacturer of high-speed optical transceivers in booth #4115. New InnoLight […]
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800G is becoming a talking point and it is one topic that can mean different things to different people. The main thrust today is development of 800G class pluggable modules. We are seeing the first 800G modules, both QSFP-DD800 and OSFP-800 appearing in the market. Although they carry an 800G tag they are really focused […]
We’re excited to announce that VIAVI Solutions is back and in-person for OFC 2022, March 8-10 in San Diego. Come join us in booth #3727 as our technology experts will be on hand to help you accelerate high-speed network test from design and production to field tests and troubleshooting. We have a full slate […]
One of the most significant areas we have seen driving new test and measurement requirements has been data center interconnect – DCI. This rapidly growing area leverages the emergence of pluggable coherent optics (DCO) to allow rapid scaling of data center interconnect bandwidth based on an open, multi-vendor ecosystem. For the DCI market to grow […]
Pluggable optical modules are a huge success factor in modern networking equipment. An end user can buy a network element, such as a router or switch, and provision ports in a pay-as-you-grow manner. They can plug optical modules into the ports and chose the reach (from a few meters with DAC copper through to 100’s […]
As module bitrates increased from 100Gbs so too did the complexity of the modules. Starting with DSP based signal conditioning and clock recovery and onwards to pluggable coherent optics, PAM-4 and CMIS. With this new level of complexity, we had to take a very different approach to module-to-pluggable optics development, debugging and validation. Specifically, the […]
Balancing test equipment availability with tight budgets and aggressive timelines can be challenging for any product development group. PCI Express® engineering teams are especially impacted, given the cost of equipment and pressure to get products to market quickly—even as testing environments become increasingly more complex. Product development teams have similar goals Faster debug for quicker […]
Analyzer Bifurcation enables simultaneous multiple tests by multiple remote users so your testing can be completed faster Traditionally, PCI Express® protocol analysis is performed with one user conducting a single test on a dedicated, single function Analyzer. Now, multiple users can log into one VIAVI Xgig® 5P16 or 5P8 Analyzer at the same time to […]
Over the past few months, teams have been very busy developing 400G class pluggable optical modules. Both as QSFP-DD, predominantly for -ZR 80km applications, and CFP2 for full multi-service DWDM. These coherent modules are a complex mix of photonics, high speed electronics, DSP and firmware as well as mechanical and thermal engineering and we at […]
Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) will showcase this week a range of products engineered to simplify and accelerate high-speed network test across all phases of the network lifecycle including development and system verification, manufacturing, turn up and installation, and troubleshooting and monitoring. The new products highlight the VIAVI presence at OFC 2021, taking place virtually from June […]