II-VI shrinks an optical line system into an OSFP module
Friday, June 5, 2020 at 10:31AM II-VI has developed an optical line system that fits inside a pluggable module.
The advent of coherent pluggable modules implementing the 400ZR standard allows switches and routers to be linked across separate data centres. Now, with a pluggable optical line system, a dedicated line-system platform is no longer needed to send the 400ZR signals over a fibre.
Sanjai ParthasarathiIn turn, the network operating system on the switch manages the optical line system directly such that a separate optical management software layer is no longer needed.
“We have shrunk an entire pizza-box line system into a small pluggable,” says Sanjai Parthasarathi, chief marketing officer at II-VI.
Indeed, one customer refers to the II-VI pluggable product - dubbed the OSFP-LS - as a ‘zero-rack-unit’ platform.
