Transceivers

Written by Kaushik Mittra, Kai Ng, Jose Raygoza, and Pat Chou, Product Managers, Transceiver Module Group In Part 1 of this 3-part blog series, we talked about the breadth of Cisco’s transceiver and platform portfolio. Here in Part 2, we describe how Cisco is dedicated to and uniquely positioned to…

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…

At OFC 2019, Cisco Optics Product Manager Kai Ng explained to me how our pluggable optical transceivers help our customers deploy and manage their networks worry-free. Many of the details will surprise a lot of people! More videos at the Cisco Optics playlist on Cisco’s Youtube Channel.  …

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…

Written by Priya Maratukulam, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco In our previous post we described the phenomenon of total internal reflection and how it enables light to travel long distances down optical fibers.  In this post we will discuss different types of optical fiber.  The tw…

Written by Zhenbo Xu, Technical Marketing Engineer, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco     Non-Return to Zero (NRZ), an intuitive and simple modulation format, has been adopted for decades for both electrical and optical data transmission. However, as serial data rates increase to 25G and be…