Inphi Samples Industry’s First Coherent DSP Enabling 400G Pluggables Setting an Industry Benchmark in Power and Performanc...
November 25 2019 - 8:00AM
Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI), a leader in high-speed data
movement interconnects, today announced that the company is
sampling its new Canopus™ coherent Digital Signal Processor (DSP),
the industry’s first merchant 7nm coherent DSP. Canopus paves the
way for an industry-wide paradigm shift in deployment models by
providing low power and high density QSFP-DD, OSFP and CFP2-DCO
coherent pluggable modules for cloud and telecom customers. Canopus
makes high density IP over DWDM on switch and router platforms a
reality, and it is designed to deliver the performance required for
metro and long haul networks. For the first time, switches and
routers can offer the same port density of coherent interfaces as
client ports with capacities of up to 14.4 Tb/s per rack unit (RU),
representing a 3x increase over current coherent port densities.
Coherent interfaces directly on switch and router platforms
eliminate the need for dedicated cloud transport boxes for DCI
networks, and consequently, reduce cost and power dissipation by
more than 50%.
Canopus’ power efficient and high-performance DSP architecture
implements probabilistic shaping, a technique that maximizes data
rate at longer fiber distances and delivers lower deployment cost
per bit. For the first time, coherent pluggables are powered with
probabilistic shaping technology. Canopus’ innovative low power
implementation in 7nm silicon geometry delivers over 75% reduction
in DSP power dissipation and size as compared to the current
generation of coherent DSPs. A low power DSP is necessary to meet
the small form factor pluggable modules power requirements.
Additionally, Canopus’ design allows operators the flexibility to
select either ZR or high-performance modes, enabling them to cover
a wide range of network applications.
Canopus builds upon the extensive deployed base of Inphi’s M200
coherent DSP. This continuity enables OEMs and Operators
interoperability across generations of coherent solutions for 100G
and 200G deployments to drive a seamless transition to 400G.
Canopus supports 400G ZR, which is broadly supported by cloud
operators, service providers and OEMs and is being standardized in
OIF facilitating multi-vendor interoperability up to 120km span.
Inphi contributed an innovative FEC technology called CFEC, adopted
by multiple standards bodies including OIF, IEEE and ITU for the
400G ZR standard. Canopus extends performance beyond ZR to ZR+
extending 400G reach and spans lower data rates to thousands of
kilometers on metro and long haul networks.
“The Canopus coherent DSP is ushering a new industry wide
ecosystem, pluggability, and era of interoperability. Canopus
increases density while slashing both power dissipation and the
cost per bit to unprecedented levels,” said Nariman Yousefi, SVP,
Coherent DSP, Inphi. “The sampling of the Canopus DSP transforms
coherent pluggable optics to high-performance 100/200/300/400G, a
true revolutionary step and the inflection point in the
industry.”
“The market for coherent pluggable optics will exceed $500M by
2023,” said Andrew Schmitt, Directing Analyst at Cignal AI.
“Canopus is the first product to bring standards-based
interoperability to coherent networking and enable disaggregation
of high-performance optical modules in both cloud DCI and
traditional service providers.”
“400G ZR and ZR+ DCO modules will deliver an unmatched value
proposition for cloud and service provider customers,” said
Christophe Metivier, Vice President of Manufacturing and Platform
Engineering, at Arista Networks. “At Arista, we look forward to
supporting these modules on our standard switches and routers with
pluggable ZR and ZR+ modules for DCI, metro, and even long haul
DWDM networks.”
“Juniper is committed to accelerating 400GbE with 400G ZR, ZR+
across multiple platforms to help service providers, cloud and
enterprise customers to achieve better economics with no
density/throughput trade-off for packet-optical integration as they
transition to 400G to lower cost per bit while increasing
bandwidth,” said Domenico Di Mola, Vice President of Engineering,
Packet Optical Platform at Juniper Networks. “Low power 400G
Coherent DSP is crucial technology for the industry deliver 400G ZR
and ZR+.”
Strong Multi-Sourced Ecosystem Inphi is
facilitating an ecosystem of partners offering QSFP-DD, OSFP and
CFP2-DCO modules, fueled with coherent advancements enabled by
Canopus power and performance scalability. This will make Canopus
truly interoperable ecosystem for data center interconnect, metro
and long haul applications across multiple established module
vendors in the industry, will drive supply diversity and accelerate
time to deployment for OEMs and operators. Canopus ecosystem
partners are equipped to deploy interoperable solutions across wide
array of optical network links with ZR and ZR+.
“Canopus offers critical power and size
innovation to enable 400G ZR and ZR+ interfaces on high density
switch and router cards for data center connectivity,” said Adit
Narasimha, Vice President and General Manager, Molex
Optoelectronics. “Our partnership with Inphi propels our vision to
be a market leader in the coherent pluggable space.”
“Canopus drives an industry first in key coherent market
segments,” said Marc Stiller, NeoPhotonics Vice President of
Coherent Modules. “Time to market is critical in every coherent
segment. Our partnership with Inphi, combined with our industry
leading coherent optics platforms, allows NeoPhotonics to rapidly
deliver Canopus based modules and sets us on a leadership
path.”
Availability Inphi is now sampling its
multi-rate 100/200/300/400G 7nm Coherent DSP to qualified
customers. This effort is part of an overarching strategy to drive
a comprehensive ecosystem of QSFP-DD, OSFP and CFP2-DCO modules
from multiple sources to ensure interoperability and multi-vendor
supply variability for the industry.
About Inphi Inphi Corporation is a leader in
high-speed data movement interconnects. We move big data – fast,
throughout the globe, between data centers, and inside data
centers. Inphi’s expertise in signal integrity results
in reliable data delivery, at high speeds, over a variety of
distances. As data volumes ramp exponentially due to video
streaming, social media, cloud-based services, and wireless
infrastructure, the need for speed has never been greater. That’s
where we come in. Customers rely on Inphi’s solutions to develop
and build out the Service Provider and Cloud infrastructures, and
data centers of tomorrow. To learn more about Inphi,
visit www.inphi.com.
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Corporate Contact: Kim Markle Inphi Corporation
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