Acacia Communications Announces General Availability of the Coherent CFP2-DCO Module
December 11 2017 - 5:00PM
Acacia Communications (NASDAQ:ACIA), a leading provider of
high-speed coherent optical interconnect products, today announced
the general availability of its pluggable coherent CFP2-DCO module
supporting 100 Gbps and 200 Gbps transmission. Acacia designed this
module to help cloud and telecommunications providers reduce
operational and capital expenses, increase reach and accelerate
time-to-market of high-capacity solutions.
Acacia Communications’ CFP2-DCO coherent pluggable modules are
suitable for a wide range of network applications, including data
center interconnect, metro access, metro core, long-haul, as well
as emerging applications including remote PHY and client optical
interfaces up to 80 km. These CFP2-DCO modules help to
simplify network management and reduce operations costs for
providers by enabling an Acacia-based eco-system through its
network equipment partners. Acacia believes that these
compact pluggable modules will allow its customers to offer some of
the lowest power solutions available in the optical transport
industry. The CFP2-DCO form factor offers many advantages
compared to alternative coherent architectures, including:
- Pay-as-you-grow deployment model – Defers the
deployment cost, including that of the digital signal processor
(DSP), of additional ports until additional bandwidth is
needed.
- Digital host interface – Streamlines
integration into existing network equipment and supports field
plugability without the need for complex calibration.
The use of pluggable optics means that a failure in a single module
will affect only the module's port, not the entire line card.
- Flexible modulation – 100 Gbps transmission
using QPSK modulation for metro-core and long haul applications and
200 Gbps for metro-access applications using either 16QAM for
backward compatibility or 8QAM for greater reach and fewer
regeneration stages.
“Acacia’s CFP2-DCO can address a wide range of networking
applications in a compact form factor,” said Benny Mikkelsen,
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Acacia Communications. “Our
team has done a great job to develop this low power solution, while
maintaining high performance. With the Optical Internetworking
Forum (OIF) developing a CFP2-DCO Implementation Agreement, the
form factor is positioned for wide adoption in the optical
networking industry and with support for up to 400 Gbps, the
CFP2-DCO form factor can offer network operators a long term return
on investment.”
“The Acacia 200 Gbps CFP2-DCO is the darling device of 2H17. It
is unrivaled in performance and power consumption,” said founder
and lead analyst Andrew Schmitt, Cignal AI.
Initially sampled in 2016, Acacia Communications’ award-winning
CFP2-DCO supports four times the faceplate density of the
CFP-DCO. Acacia’s CFP2-DCO incorporates its Meru DSP ASIC,
based on 16nm CMOS technology, and its silicon photonic integrated
circuit. Internal layer 1 encryption can be enabled for enhanced
security applications.
Learn more about expanding service provider applications for
pluggable coherent optics during Light Reading's webinar on
December 12, 2017, featuring Sterling Perrin, Principal Analyst –
Optical Networking & Transport, Heavy Reading and Tom Williams,
Sr. Director of Marketing, Acacia Communications. Register
here.
About Acacia Communications
Acacia Communications develops, manufactures and sells
high-speed coherent optical interconnect products that are designed
to transform communications networks through improvements in
performance, capacity and cost. By leveraging silicon technology to
build optical interconnects, a process Acacia Communications refers
to as the “siliconization of optical interconnect,” Acacia
Communications is able to offer products at higher speeds and
density with lower power consumption, that meet the needs of cloud
and service providers and can be easily integrated in a
cost-effective manner with existing network equipment. For updates
on Acacia, follow us on Twitter @AcaciaComms, LinkedIn, the Acacia
blog, or visit www.acacia-inc.com.
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Communications and its future expectations, plans and prospects
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company’s anticipated growth strategies, its expectations regarding
competition, the anticipated trends and challenges in its business
and the market in which Acacia Communications operates, including
those that may affect its customers and their demand for Acacia
Communications’ products, including its CFP2-DCO product, the size
and growth of the potential markets for its products and the
ability to serve those markets, its expectations regarding, and the
stability and quality control of, its supply chain and
manufacturing, the scope, progress, expansion and costs of
developing and commercializing its products, adverse litigation
judgments, settlements or other litigation-related costs, including
with respect to the pending purported securities class action
lawsuits, regulatory developments in the United States and foreign
countries, including under export control laws or regulations that
could impede its ability to sell its products to customers in
certain foreign jurisdictions, and other risks set forth under the
caption “Risk Factors” in the company’s public reports filed with
the SEC, including the company’s public reports filed with the SEC,
including the company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2017 filed with the SEC and in
other filings that the Company may make with the SEC in the future.
Acacia Communications assumes no obligation to update any
forward-looking statements contained in this press release as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.
For further information:
Public Relations Contact:Ed Harrison Office: (781)
966-4158Email: PR@acacia-inc.com
Investor Relations Contact:Monica GouldOffice: (212)
871-3927Email: IR@acacia-inc.com
Lindsay SavareseOffice: (212) 331-8417Email:
IR@acacia-inc.com
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