Poet Technologies creates platform for 1.6T transceivers

POET Technologies announced its development of an optical interposer platform for 1.6T transceivers and beyond using 200G per lane technology for next generation data center and AI networks. Migrating from 100G per lane to 200G per lane doubles the bandwidth with the same face plate density as 100G per lane, lowers the overall system power consumption and reduces the solution cost. Cloud and other service providers can continue to reap the benefits of pluggable transceivers in their networks and deploy pluggable solutions at bandwidths of 1.6T with 200G per lane technology utilizing POET‘s enhanced interposer-powered optical engines. “Moving to 200Gbps per lane is a critical step for the industry to sustain the bandwidth demands of the cloud and AI networks,” said Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, Chairman & CEO of POET. “An integration platform like the POET Optical Interposer is an absolute requirement at such high speeds to connect optical and electrical components and at the same time meet performance and power requirements. We have augmented the Optical Interposer platform in several important ways to extract the native bandwidth of components without inducing the losses and interferences that are common in other integration schemes. We are working with several industry leaders and integrating their high bandwidth components on our platform to demonstrate 200G performance.