Inphi Sampling New COLORZ® II – Industry’s First 400ZR QSFP-DD Transceiver for Cloud Data Center Interconnects
December 19 2019 - 8:00AM
Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI), a leader in high-speed data
movement interconnects, today announced engineering sampling of
COLORZ® II, the industry first 400ZR QSFP-DD pluggable coherent
transceiver for cloud data center interconnects (DCIs) to major
cloud operators and OEMs. COLORZ II enables large cloud operators
to connect metro data centers at a fraction of the cost of
traditional coherent transport systems and allows switch and router
companies to offer the same density for both coherent DWDM and
client optics in the same chassis. This eliminates a layer of
network connectivity that was previously required and supports high
capacity DWDM connectivity directly from data center
switches.
COLORZ II 400ZR QSFP-DD is a cumulation of several industry
firsts, including:
- 400G single-chip, coherent Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit
(PIC) that includes all transmit and receive functions
- Innovative, low cost, passive alignment of fiber to the PIC
that eliminates the complicated active alignment, using traditional
optics
- Low power, high performance, 7nm CMOS-based coherent DSP
enabling 400ZR as well as extended reach 100/200/300/400G ZR+
modes
- Integrated industry standard firmware management interface that
enables full performance monitoring previously only available in
DCI or transport systems directly from the optical module
COLORZ II represents a massive increase in switch rack capacity,
while reducing the power consumption by as much as 80%. COLORZ II
delivers up to 14.4T of capacity per rack unit (RU), compared to
2.4T or 3.6T per RU on competing solutions, representing a 4-6 x
increase in throughput per chassis. Even emerging competing
solutions with higher capacity per lambda are less than 50%
capacity per 1RU line card. This drastically improved density on
COLORZ II is achieved via new levels of Silicon Photonics
integration as well as dramatically decreased power consumption on
all elements of the coherent transceiver.
COLORZ II enables cloud end users to dramatically lower the cost
of scaling out their cloud data centers around the globe. As cloud
service providers continue to scale for rapidly increasing
bandwidth demands with lower latency for their customers, the trend
towards distributed regional data center architectures accelerates.
Compared to traditional massive data centers residing in single
campus facilities, a more distributed architecture within each
metro region provides several advantages including higher
resilience and availability for end users.
400ZR is an interoperable standard with broad industry support.
Motivated by the need to lower the cost and power consumption of
DCI, leading cloud operators, OEMs, module, and chip vendors have
joined the Optical Interworking Forum (OIF) in the development of
an industry standard for 400ZR. COLORZ II is the first publicly
announced product designed specifically for this application.
Customers that deploy COLORZ II will have the assurance that they
will be supported by a multi-vendor industry wide ecosystem and not
get locked into proprietary single vendor solutions.
For end users looking for performance beyond 400ZR, Inphi’s new
Canopus™ 7nm coherent DSP offers a multitude of reach and data rate
options for metro and long haul performance. As recently announced,
there is wide support with a large ecosystem of system and module
OEMs utilizing Inphi’s Canopus DSP that allows for interoperability
with COLORZ II even for these extended reach modes, including
higher gain FEC, probabilistic shaping and encryption.
“Inphi continues to innovate as we provide an expanding suite of
choices for cloud network operators and OEMs to gain the
flexibility of high bandwidth DWDM connectivity in between data
centers with the ability to rapidly scale their capacity,” said,
Dr. Loi Nguyen, Sr VP, Optical Interconnect, Inphi. “By meeting the
needs of cloud network companies that require extended link
reaches, the 400ZR opens up new possibilities for DCIs to reduce
total cost of ownership of cloud networks. As a fabless company we
have proven our capability to quickly increase manufacturing and
market share for our COLORZ 100G DWDM modules and are ready to meet
our customers demand for COLORZ II.”
“Inphi’s sampling of the 400ZR module is the first to bring
pluggable 400G coherent optics into the data center,” said Andrew
Schmitt, Directing Analyst at Cignal AI. “This groundbreaking
technology economically enables edge data center architectures for
large cloud vendors and gives network operators worldwide the first
look at standards-based pluggable coherent solutions.”
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
kmarkle@inphi.com
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