RANOVUS, a provider of multi-terabit interconnect solutions for data center and communications networks announced the OpenOptics MSA publication of the industry’s first foundational Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) specification for an interoperable 100G WDM standard for 2 kilometer reach, addressing the challenges in data center connectivity requirements.
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Saeid Aramideh, chief marketing and sales officer for RANOVUS said that their OpenOptics MSA collaboration with industry leaders have resulted in the definition of a foundational WDM specification for data center network connectivity which has terabit scalability on a single mode fiber pair infrastructure. According to him, the availability of this specification is a major milestone that will not only accelerate the adoption of silicon-photonics based WDM solutions for the data center market, but also allow for a scalable terabit infrastructure for next generation datacenter architectures.
The WDM specification brings together 1550nm WDM laser and silicon photonics for QSFP and optical engine based solutions, enabling lowest-cost, highest density, and highest bandwidth with single mode fiber pair connectivity, which allows data centers to use up to 32 or more channels per fiber strand.
According to Gilad Shainer, Vice President of marketing at Mellanox Technologies, initially there were no standards for anything beyond 100Gb/s, however, now the industry will have an architecture standard that scales to a terabit and beyond on existing fiber that substantially reduces the cost of hyper-scale data center networks.
The OpenOptics MSA consortium presented its proposed specification at the OCP U.S. Summit 2015 and announced new additions to its membership. The OpenOptics MSA membership now includes RANOVUS, Mellanox, Oracle, Ciena, Vertilas and Ghiasi Quantum.
