MSA

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…

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…

Cisco CPAK Helps Win Best 100G Optical Product

Although we introduced the Cisco CPAK 100G pluggable transceiver back in March at OFC/NFOEC, many people hadn’t yet seen our CMOS photonics technology from our acquisition of Lightwire back in 2012. As a result we had a lot of interest at the WDM Monaco event this week to learn more about the soluti…