Silicon Photonics
Optics in the Data Center: Powering Ever-Increasing Capacity Demands
As I mentioned in my previous blog, pluggable optics (aka optical transceivers) are widely deployed inside the data center, campus, enterprise, or service provider central office. The Cisco Global Cloud Index estimates that total data center traffic (all traffic within or exiting a data center) will…
Video: Cisco Silicon Photonics for Single-Wavelength 100G
At OFC 2019, Ray Nering asked me about the single-wavelength 100G PAM4 technology demo we were running, showing clean propagation over 10km of single-mode fiber. For more details, see Silicon Photonics Demonstration at OFC 2019. More videos at the Cisco Optics playlist on Cisco’…
Silicon Photonics Demonstration at OFC 2019
Thanks to all who stopped by the Cisco booth at OFC 2019 in San Diego! It was a bustling show and our booth was constantly packed. If you didn’t get to see it, Cisco Optics had a number of products and technologies on display. One of them was Cisco’s silicon photonics platform that our t…