Optical equipment design requires the combination of a variety of technologies, from lasers to semiconductors, transceivers to line cards.

Transmission

Optical transmission equipment includes transceivers, transponders, and similar modules. XFP, SFP, SFP+, SFF, and QSFP are some of the more popular form factors, with CXP and CFP emerging for 100-Gbps applications. You’ll find product and tutorial information about such modules on this page.

Transmission News & Products
The Lightwave Channel
Anritsu and ExceLight Communications partnered at OFC/NFOEC '09 for a demonstration of emerging test and transceiver technology for 100G. Besides the demonstration, company spokesmen also address future advances.
The Lightwave Blog
Oclaro Chairman and CEO Alain Couder and CFO Jerry Turin discussed the company's results of the company's fiscal second quarter 2012 with analysts January 26...
Jim Theodoras, ADVA Optical Networking
Recently, there has been a lot of confusion around the area of next-generation 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) development and who is doing what. Given the...