Apogee Photonics intros standardized platform for optical transceiver development
DECEMBER 20, 2006 -- Apogee Photonics (search for Apogee Photonics) today announced a single platform approach for creating 10-Gbit/sec transceivers based on its 1310-nm and 1550-nm laser sources. Customers now can manufacture new transceiver products for a range of optical network applications with one platform, greatly reducing development and qualification design cycles and offering faster time to market, say company representatives.
The combined 1310-nm and 1550-nm platform architecture allows Apogee Photonics' customers-- module and OEM manufacturers--to adopt a standardized platform to serve multiple 10-Gbit/sec transceiver interfaces (such as LR, SR1, IR1, ER, IR2 and LR2) with a single XFP board and case. Transceiver-level design choices related to receptacles, flex guides, output pinning, and driving only need to be done once with Apogee Photonics' platform, says the company. The platform greatly reduces the risks associated with new transceiver introductions and provides development cost savings, decreasing the separate qualification cycles of each new product.
Apogee Photonics customer eGTran designs, develops, and markets 10- and 40-Gbit/sec data transponders, ICs, and components for fiber-optic markets and is using Apogee Photonics' combined 1310- and 1550-nm platform architecture for its XFP product.
"Our work with Apogee Photonics' platform allows us to rapidly address new applications as we aim to meet the growing customer demand for advanced optical link distances and applications," explains Dr. Frank S. Lee, CEO of eGTran. "Apogee Photonics is the ideal partner because they understand that industry success requires the fastest time to market and as few development cycles as possible."
The 1310- and 1550-nm 10-Gbit/sec laser sources on the platform are both EML based and mechanically and pinning compatible. For example, Apogee Photonics' new 10T3005 1310-nm TOSA offers a receptacle and flex guide that is compatible with the Apogee TLA10X 1550-nm XMD TOSA. To support this single platform approach, Apogee Photonics has a T10-0120-021 evaluation board using the Vitesse VSC7982 driver that supports both the 1310- and 1550-nm TOSA. Similarly, an evaluation board (T10-0120-022) is available using the OKI 4195 driver.
"The definition of new transceiver MSAs such as SFP+ requires many of our customers to make hard trade-offs in the number of transceiver products offered, given engineering resource constraints," notes Scott Keller, Apogee Photonics vice president of sales and marketing. "Apogee's unique technology approach offers a much needed solution that allows customers to easily broaden their product offering while reducing the cost, materials and resources involved in the design and qualification of separate platforms."
The Apogee Photonics platform is available immediately and shipping samples to customers worldwide.
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The 1310-/1550-nm platform enables manufacturers to adopt a standardized platform to serve multiple 10-Gbit/sec transceiver interfaces--LR, SR1, IR1, ER, IR2 and LR2--with a single XFP board and case.
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