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The company earmarks 2023 for its first co-packaged optics product
Intel is sampling an 800-gigabit DR8 in an OSFP pluggable optical module, as announced at the recent OFC virtual conference and show.
Robert Blum“It is the first time we have done a pluggable module with 100-gigabit electrical serdes [serialisers/ deserialisers],” says Robert Blum, Intel’s senior director, marketing and new business. “The transition for the industry to 100-gigabit serdes is a big step.”
The 800-gigabit DR8 module has eight electrical 100-gigabit interfaces and eight single-mode 100-gigabit optical channels in each transmission direction.
The attraction of the single-module DR8 design, says Blum, is that it effectively comprises two 400-gigabit DR4 modules. “The optical interface allows you the flexibility that you can break it out into 400-gigabit DR4,” says Blum. “You can also do single 100-gigabit breakouts or you can do 800-gigabit-to-800-gigabit traffic.”
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