PRODUCT UPDATE
FiberPlanIT Engineer focuses on construction
At the FTTH Conference 2017 in Marseille, Comsof launched FiberPlanIT Engineer, an extension to its FiberPlanIT Designer software that focuses on the design and planning stage of FTTx networks. With the addition of FiberPlanIT Engineer, Comsof says it can serve its customers during the construction phase as well. ‘Creating splicing diagrams, labelling the equipment and generating the required construction plans is time consuming, repetitive and error prone work. Anyone who is responsible for the roll-out of a fibre network knows this. This will no longer be the case with the FiberPlanIT Engineer,’ said Raf Meersman, CEO Comsof. FiberPlanIT Designer generates optimised high-level designs to reduce the deployment cost. The FiberPlanIT Engineer then transforms these high-level plans into low-level designs ready for construction, automatically creates fibre connections and applies the correct equipment coding. The use of templates in the software makes it easier to generate consistent construction plans. The software also allows for last-minute adjustments to the network design to make it ‘field proof’. This reduces network design time and avoids costly mistakes in the field.
http://fiberplanit.com/
NeoPhotonics samples PAM4-based 400G CFP8 optical transceiver
Components and subsystems developer NeoPhotonics has begun sampling its 400G CFP8 transceiver modules, designed for data centre interconnection and client side telecom applications. CFP8 is likely to be the first form factor on the market capable of supporting 400 Gigabit Ethernet applications.
NeoPhotonics’ 400G CFP8 transceiver is compliant with IEEE 802.3bs 400 Gigabit Ethernet specifications 400GBase-LR8 for 10km links and 400GBase-FR8 for 2km links, based on four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) signals and eight DWDM channels on duplex singlemode fibre. The new CFP8 module exploits NeoPhotonics’ portfolio of high-speed component technologies, including its 28GBd high- performance and low-power electroabsorption modulated lasers (EMLs) as well as high-speed PIN photodiodes. The firm has improved its EML design by lowering power consumption, while keeping superior high-speed performance. As part of this, it has announced an EML with the driver integrated into it at the chip-on-carrier level.
www.neophotonics.com
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Source Photonics launches XGS-PON N2 OLT transceiver
Source Photonics has launched an XGS-PON N2 optical line terminal (OLT) optical module, which it claims is the first in the market to offer a universal upgrade path from existing GPON networks to next-generation XGS-PON networks. The new transceiver meets the N2 class maximum optical link budget of 31dB in the XGS-PON standard G.9807.1, thus providing operators with a single
VPIphotonics and PhoeniX enable rapid circuit design for TriPleX tech
VPIphotonics and PhoeniX Software, in co-operation with LioniX International, have teamed up to develop a photonics process design kit (PDK) that supports circuit simulation and layout design of application-specific photonic integrated circuits (ASPICs) to be processed on LioniX International’s TriPleX technology platform. TriPleX is a proprietary integrated optical waveguide technology based on alternating layers of silicon nitride and silicon dioxide. Waveguides fabricated in this system offer very low channel attenuation across a broad
module that supports the upgrade of both B+ and C+ class GPON networks to XGS-PON. Source Photonics will offer the XGS-PON N2
OLT module in the XFP form factor. The module provides symmetric data rates of 9.953Gb/s downstream and upstream, and supports a 1:64 split ratio on 20km links. The XGS-PON N2 OLT will begin sampling in March 2017 with production expected in the third quarter of the year.
www.sourcephotonics.com
wavelength range from 400nm to 2.35μm. VPItoolkit PDK LioniX is a new pluggable library extension to VPIcomponentMaker Photonic Circuits, to provide circuit-level simulation of the building blocks for TriPleX waveguide technology. Each building block is characterised by only a few user-defined parameters and is represented with a simulation model. These tools allow designers to create prototype ASPICs without going deep into the details of device layout and fabrication process. Once the design is completed, its layout can be exported to PhoeniX Software’s OptoDesigner to add packaging and electrical wire routing.
www.vpiphotonics.com
Yenista offers LAN WDM lasers for its OSICS test platform
Test and measurement company Yenista Optics has added a new module to its transmission lasers. The OSICS DFB LAN WDM module is available in four wavelengths: 1295.56, 1300.05, 1304.58 and 1309.14nm. The LAN WDM channels are being adopted for long- and extended-reach optical interconnects with PAM4 modulation for 100, 200 and 400 GbE
transmission. The new laser modules assist manufacturers with testing of transceiver components such as modulators, multiplexers and receivers in both R&D and manufacturing. Repeatable measurements are possible, thanks to excellent wavelength and power stability of 5pm and 0.01dB, respectively. ‘The OSICS is a reliable platform for 24/7 operation and offers a wide variety of modules for configuring test benches in development and production environments,’ said Eric Schlafflang, product line manager of Yenista’s OSICS platform. ‘The four DFB LAN WDM lasers are a cost- effective alternative to tunable lasers when only a limited tuning range is required.’
www.yenista.com
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