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Intel® Silicon Photonics

Moving Data with Light

A new class of high-speed optical connectivity products.

Intel has Exciting Career Opportunities in Silicon Photonics

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What Is Silicon Photonics?

Silicon Photonics is a combination of two of the most important inventions of the 20th century—the silicon integrated circuit and the semiconductor laser. It enables faster data transfer over longer distances compared to traditional electronics, while utilizing the efficiencies of Intel’s high-volume silicon manufacturing.

  • Delivering Innovation in the Data Center and Beyond
  • Ramping 100Gbps Connectivity
  • Photonics in the 5G Wireless Network

Delivering Innovation in the Data Center and Beyond

Delivering Innovation in the Data Center and Beyond

As a leader in silicon photonics Intel is enabling future data center bandwidth growth and next-generation 5G deployments using smaller form factors and higher speeds, from 100G today to 400G and beyond tomorrow, while providing new platforms for optical integration.

This new technology reduces total cost of ownership and improves the performance of data center architectures by removing networking bottlenecks that can result in stranded compute capacity. Silicon Photonics helps by:

  • Enabling high-bandwidth, software-configurable access to compute and storage
  • Permitting software-defined infrastructure (SDI) deployments to decouple hardware and software resources for disaggregated data centers

Ramping 100Gbps Connectivity

Ramping 100Gbps Connectivity

Intel® Silicon Photonics optical transceivers are shipping in volume now, enabling data centers to cost-effectively deploy 100 Gigabit per second solutions via:

  • The only fully integrated silicon photonics solution with Intel's hybrid laser technology, featuring greater than 90% coupling efficiency1 2
  • Industry-standard products adopted by cloud service providers
  • High-density optical interconnects delivered with unmatched manufacturing capabilities, scale, and cost-efficiency

Photonics in the 5G Wireless Network

Take advantage of the existing industry move to fiber optics for 4G and 5G RAN frontal.

Intel® Silicon Photonics Products

100G CWDM4 QSFP28 Optical Transceiver with Extended Temperature

Features dual rate 40G/100G CPRI and eCPRI, up to 10km reach on duplex single-mode fiber, operating temperature range of -20°C to 85°C with high speed and low-power consumption.

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100G CWDM4 QSFP28 Optical Transceiver

Features up to 10km reach on duplex single-mode fiber, with high speed and low-power consumption. Designed to be compliant with 100G CWDM4 and CLR4 MSA, QSFP28, and CAUI-4 specifications.2

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100G PSM4 QSFP28 Optical Transceiver

Features up to 2km reach on parallel single-mode fiber, and is designed to be compliant with 100G PSM4 MSA, QSFP28, and CAUI-4 specifications.

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Exploring 5G Fronthaul Network Architectures

Learn about common reference architecture intelligence splits and their associated bandwidth and implementation trade-offs.

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Unleashing the Data Center with Intel Connectivity Solutions

On this podcast, Alexis Bjorlin discusses how Intel is driving end-to-end data center networking connectivity through cutting edge solutions including Intel® Ethernet, Intel® Omni-Path, Intel® Silicon Photonics, and more.

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Silicon Photonics: High Speed Optical Connectivity for 5G Wireless

Silicon Photonics continues to ramp in the data center and now expands to new markets like 5G. Explore Intel’s data center connectivity strategy and find out the latest around Silicon Photonics.

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Intel® Silicon Photonics Exhibits at ECOC 2018

Intel’s Robert Blum talks about our latest technology and live demonstrations at ECOC Exhibition, including our Intel® Silicon Photonics 5G wireless optical transceiver with extended temperature range.

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ECOC Market Focus Interview with Intel’s Robert Blum

Intel director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development Robert Blum talks about our tremendous progress and the expansion of our product portfolio.

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Silicon Photonics: Data Center Connectivity

Intel's Robert Blum writes about how silicon photonics will be key for data center connectivity and meeting the demands for bandwidth.

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Silicon Photonics Passes the Tipping Point

John Williamson describes the journey of silicon photonics and how the technology has passed the tipping point towards massive growth.

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Intel Delivers Silicon Photonics for Hyperscale Data Centers

Intel Chip Chat strives to bring listeners closer to the innovations and inspirations of the men and women shaping the future of computing, and in process share a little bit about technology themselves.

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Intel has Exciting Career Opportunities in Silicon Photonics


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Product and Performance Information

1

Technology claims are based on comparisons of latency, density and write cycling metrics amongst memory technologies recorded on published specifications of in-market memory products against internal Intel specifications.

2

For use only by product developers, software developers, and system integrators. For evaluation only; not FCC approved for resale.

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