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25G Transceiver FAQ
Written by Craig Pasek, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group I’ve posted a few blogs about 25G transceivers (here, here, and here). Here’s an FAQ to address questions that have arisen from the significant uptick in the use of 25G transceivers, which is driven by high bandwidth dema…
Cisco Optics Demos and Displays at OFC 2019
For decades, the OFC conference has been the place to see the latest research and innovation in all things related to optical communication. The exhibit hall is a great place to see for yourself what industry leaders are working on. Come visit Cisco Optics next week, at OFC 2019 in San Diego, Califo…
Peace of Mind with Cisco Optics (Part 1 of 3)
Written by Kaushik Mittra, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco Cisco sells the highest quantity of optical transceivers in the world. Through a combination of internal development and OEM and JDM engagements with suppliers, Cisco has developed an extensive portfolio of transceivers t…
25-Gigabit Pluggable Transceivers for Data Center Applications
Written by Craig Pasek, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco Upgrading Seamlessly From 10G to 25G With exponential growth in Internet users and applications, data center traffic continues to experience explosive growth. Driven by increases in social networking, data and video content d…
Transforming Enterprise Applications with 25G Ethernet SMF
Written by Craig Pasek, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco Bandwidth Drivers for 25G Bandwidth requirements in today’s Enterprise networks are now being driven by dramatic increases in video conferencing by such systems as Cisco’s Telepresence and other real-time applications such…
100G Lambda MSA Group Adds New Members and Releases Updated Specifications for Next Generation Networks
Written by Ray Nering, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco On Sept 20, 2018, the 100G Lambda MSA group announced that membership to the MSA has increased from the original 22 promoters, to include an additional 16 contributors. The MSA has been developing 100G and 400G optical specif…
Meeting enterprise demands with dual rate 10/25G Ethernet
Written by Craig Pasek, Product Manager Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco Enterprise networks are now being stressed by video conferencing and other demanding video applications that push beyond the speed limits of traditional 10G infrastructure. Whether it’s IEEE802.11ax WiFi Access Points,…
New MSA Formed to Tackle 400GE Over Multi-Mode Fiber
Written by Ray Nering, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco On July 9, 2018, the 400GE BiDi MSA Group announced its formation. The founding members consist of Alibaba, Broadcom, Cisco, Corning Incorporated, Foxconn Interconnect Technology, InnoLight Technology, Inphi Corporation…
100G Adoption In Data Centers With QSFP BiDi Transceiver
Data center traffic is expected to quadruple in the next five years as IoT and big data applications take off. At the same time, we’ll see growth in distributed databases and applications, increasing virtualization and virtual machine density. And all this comes with more complex and unpredictable t…
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