Inphi Surpasses Significant Milestone of 100,000 COLORZ® Units Shipped
January 09 2020 - 8:00AM
Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI), a leader in high-speed data
movement interconnects, today announced that it has shipped more
than 100,000 COLORZ® units, the industry’s first lowest power and
most cost effective 100G Silicon Photonics PAM4 platform solution
for 80km DWDM connectivity in a QSFP28 form factor.
The demand for bandwidth, driven by streaming video, social
networking, cloud computing and mobile e-commerce, is motivating
network operators to deploy cloud applications closer to the end
users. Low latency and scalability requirements combined with
geographical limitations favor the virtualization of connected
regional data centers. This trend is resulting in a 55% CAGR in
DWDM bandwidth for sub 80km links and early COLORZ adopters have
made an architectural shift to IP over DWDM for Data Center
Interconnects (DCIs).
By integrating Inphi’s PAM4 CMOS with its Silicon Photonics
technology, Inphi took a unique approach to create an innovative
platform solution that achieves a 60% in cost and a 75% in power
savings. Accomplishing the COLORZ ramp to 100k within a span of
only three years also validates the network inflection point in the
adoption of switch pluggable DWDM optics.
Initially developed for the requirements of Microsoft, the
COLORZ platform solution has now been deployed by more than 40
network operators, ranging from wireless carriers to military and
educational networks. The operational simplicity combined with the
economic value proposition continues to drive the adoption of
COLORZ in the market place.
“We are excited to announce this milestone as its
both an extraordinary achievement for the DCI market and for
Inphi,” said Dr. Ford Tamer, Chief Executive Officer at Inphi.
“This significant accomplishment underscores Inphi’s commitment to
delivering technological innovations that dramatically increase the
speed of data movement between data centers and help reduce total
cost of ownership for cloud network operators.”
Yousef Khalidi, Corporate Vice President, Azure
Networking, Microsoft Corp. said, “Inphi shares our vision for DCI
connectivity and we applaud their achievement of a significant
milestone. Inphi’s COLORZ platform has been an important
contributor to Microsoft’s high bandwidth metro design, to help
enable greater cloud performance in a highly scalable
solution.”
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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Public Relations Contacts: Kim
Markle Inphi kmarkle@inphi.com
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