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| Apogee Photonics Introduces Standardized Platform for Optical Transceiver Development for Vast Range of 10 Gb/s Applications Apogee Photonics has announced a single platform approach for creating 10Gb/s transceivers based on its 1310nm and 1550nm laser sources. Customers can now manufacture new transceiver products for a wide range of optical network applications with one platform, reducing development and qualification design cycles and offering faster time to market. The combined 1310nm and 1550nm platform architecture allows Apogee Photonics' customers, module and OEM manufacturers, to adopt a standardized platform in order to serve multiple 10Gb/s transceiver interfaces (such as LR, SR1, IR1, ER, IR2 and LR2) with a single XFP board and case. Transceiver level design choices related to receptacles, flex guides, output pinning and driving only need to be done once with Apogee Photonics' platform. The platform greatly reduces the risks associated with new transceiver introductions and provides significant development cost savings, decreasing the separate qualification cycles of each new product. The 1310nm and 1550nm 10Gb/s laser sources on the platform are both EML based and mechanically and pinning compatible. For example, Apogee Photonics' new 10T3005 1310nm TOSA offers a receptacle and flex guide that is compatible with the Apogee TLA10X 1550nm XMD TOSA. To support this single platform approach, Apogee Photonics has a T10-0120-021 evaluation board using the Vitesse VSC7982 driver that supports both the 1310nm and the 1550nm TOSA. Similarly, an evaluation board (T10-0120-022) is available using the OKI 4195 driver. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |