100G transition: Electrical & optical, challenges & opportunities

The demand for BW is increasing at an unbelievable pace, the Chip, System and Optics industries are trying to converge on the next generation signaling rate to cater to this surge in BW demand. IEEE 802.3 is already working on 100G signaling for 100GBASE-DR1 and 400GBASE-DR4 & OIF PLL group has started to work on CEI-112G-PAM4-VSR. MACOM has envisioned this transition early and has had the opportunity to “play” with this technology in the lab for over a year. In this presentation we'll touch on some of the experiments conducted so far.