The client, as one of top US HFT companies owning top-ranking sophisticated computing environments for R&D, is planning to convert its data centers to liquid cooling type to balance its irreconcilable conflict of ultrahigh computational capacity demands and limited space & power supply. Due to the particular features of HFT industry and service, the data centers are facing fast-expanding computing power pressure, which inevitably leads to ultrahigh density racks being deployed next to stock exchanges.

Correspondingly, the liquid cooling technology becomes the solution to the common question the whole industry is facing: how to put infinitely expanding computing capacities in finite space with limited power supply. With the liquid cooling reconstruction, large amount of space used to occupied by air conditioners and fans can be released to bear more racks and the rack density limits are broken as well.

However, the popularization of liquid cooling is not a easy job. The lack of verified optical interconnection hardware is holding its applications’ further expanding. FIBERSTAMP, as a long-term partner of the HFT giant, took out its new results — 25G immersible optical transceivers which have been practically tested and deployed in data center and 5G DU applications. At present the procured samples are received by the user and being tested in the real running environments to make sure of its long-term reliability.

The common liquid cooling technology applicable for optical transceivers and the first batch of 10/25/50/100G immersible transceivers are significant fruits of FIBERSTAMP in 2021, which are further boosting the widespread applications of liquid cooling technology in areas of data center, server, HFT and 5G networks. The first generation immersible transceivers are of superior leakproofness, supporting direct submersion cooling and can well work while submersed with more than 1m of liquid depth. At the same time, through liquid pressurization test, all material applied is of long-term compatibility for mainstream coolant and immersive working environment.

Visit Immersible Optical Transceivers to learn more details about FIBERSTAMP First Gen Liquid Cooling Optical Transceivers.

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The newly rolled-out product portfolio feature several cutting-edge performance advantages of higher flexibility, stronger performance and better stability:

• The 100G QSFP28 ER4/ZR4 support both 100G Ethernet and OTU4, can be well adapt to both Ethernet and OTN applications.
• The 100G QSFP28 ZR4 can realize 60km transmission without forward error correction (FEC) and a maximum transmission distance of 90km with host FEC, showing superior performance potential in the market. Besides, the 100G QSFP28 ER4 can realize up to 40km ultra-long distance transmission without FEC, through which the latency and power consumption are all significantly improved.
• According to practically measured results, the power consumption of the two transceivers is lower than 6W at the testing temperature of 70℃, and is as low as 4.4W at 25℃, which are of top level of the kind.

Undoubtedly, the 100G new products’ coming provides many network equipment vendors, network operators and data centers with more economical and flexible options, and shows again FIBERSTAMP’s of deep digging of traditional optical theory and profound comprehension of the practical applications.

It is worth mentioning that FIBERSTAMP has developed complete, reliable and economical 100G optics portfolio including optical transceivers, AOCs, DACs and coherent optical transceivers that reach a maximum transmission distance of 2000km, and cover multiple application scenarios such as data centers, 5G and metro network.

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This product uses the mainstream 4-lane WDM optical engine architecture, which integrates 4-lane cooled EML TOSA, APD ROSA and 50G PAM4 CDR based on DSP technology, empowering it with superior comprehensive performance. At the same time, it complies with the QSFP MSA standard, supports IEEE 802.3cn 200GBASE-ER4 Ethernet and OTN protocols, and supports a maximum transmission distance of 40km, well applicable for 200G long-distance metro DCI and 5G backhaul.

This 200G QSFP56 ER4 optical transceiver also has excellent performance in terms of power consumption. According to actual test results, its power consumption is as low as 6.4W at normal temperature, and can keep less than 7.5W at testing temperatures of 0℃, 25℃ and 75℃, which can help users greatly save the energy costs.

In addition, this product has excellent OMA sensitivity, the actual test result is lower than -17dBm, entrusting it with an absolute advantage in long-distance transmission.

It is worth mentioning that based on the long-term and deep cultivation in the field of 200G high-speed optical interconnection, FIBERSTAMP has developed a complete, professional and economical 200G optical interconnection product line, which can provide users with full coverage and highly targeted optical transmission network solution!

FIBERSTAMP Complete 200G Product Portfolio:

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The product is manufactured with an initiative 8-lane WDM optical engine (1:8 LAN-WDM Mux/Demux (patent pending), and integrates 8-lane refrigerated EML lasers and optical detectors. It supports both 400GE (8X53 Gbps) Ethernet and OTN protocols, and well fits for data centers and telecommunication networks.

Over a long period in the past, the manufacturability of the 8-lane WDM optical engine has always been a barrier in the industry of optical transmission. After two years of deep exploring the optical engine and optical transceiver, FIBERSTAMP has developed an initial 8-lane WDM optical engine and successfully applied it in on the 400G optical transceiver. The WDM optical engine platform has great manufacturability and is applicable to FIBERSTAMP’s 800G WDM products as well.

Manufactured with mature 8*50G PAM4 integrated optoelectronic design, FIBERSTAMP 400G QSFP-DD LR8 can offer superior signal integrity. Meanwhile, the application of the 50G PAM4 CDR based on DSP technology keeps sure of excellent signal stability and performance of the product, which makes it fully meet the application of single-mode dual-fiber G.652 transmission of 10km.

The single PCB design largely simplifies the production process and improves its manufacturability. The product complies with IEEE 802.3bs 400GBASE-LR8 standard and is compatible with CMIS 4.0, making sure of its good compatibility and broad applicability.

As for the power consumption, after having chips and design scheme improved, can keep lower than 12W under multiple testing temperatures of -40~85℃, standing the top level in the industry.

The performance testing results at a glance:

The successful development of 400G QSFP-DD LR8 indicates that FIBERSTAMP has basically completed the first-generation layout of 400G data center optical interconnect product line, and made great preparation for the deployment of 800G products. FIBERSTAMP’s 400G first-generation data center optical interconnect product line now is combined by 400G QSFP-DD PCC, 400G QSFP-DD AOC, 400G QSFP-DD SR8, 400G QSFP-DD PSM8, and 400G QSFP-DD LR8, can provide data centers with complete, economic and professional one-stop optical interconnection solutions.

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Features:

• High Integration: All electrical and optical functions are integrated in one rack unit
• Large Capacity: 400G per 1RU coherent transmission capacity, supporting 100G/200G CFP2 coherent transceivers
• Multi-service: Support 100GE Ethernet and OTU4
• Intelligent Panel: No need for PC, users can use it offline and check the key monitoring information of the 200G Muxponder
• Intelligent Rack: 1U, 2U, 4U optional
• Intelligent Network Management: Support WEB/SNMP/CLI network management
• Ultra-long transmission: single span up to 150km, multi-level sites up to 2000km

The system features large capacity, small size, low power consumption and simple operation & maintenance, will provide global small and medium data centers with more choices. Since breaking through in the field of coherent optical communication in 2018, FIBERSTAMP has successively launched 100G CFP DCO and 100G CFP2 DCO optical transceivers, which are produced in bulk shortly after. At present, 200G&400G CFP2 DCO optical transceivers based on the new 7nm DSP are under development.

• FIBERSTAMP 1U Coherent Optical Muxponder (line side supports 2X CFP2)
• Intelligent Panel: No need for PC, users can use it offline and check the key monitoring information of the 200G Muxponder, which is convenient for users to debug on site.
• The L1 interface supports 100G/200G CFP2 DCO coherent transceivers
• the C1 & C2 interfaces support QSFP28 optical modules

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At the same time, the uniqueness of B2B industry transactions, inconsistent buyer behavior, seller factors, and peer competition work together, leading to an opaque optical module market combined with mixed information and high transaction communication costs, which makes it hard for customers to make timely and comprehensive price comparisons. And then, even if the buyer make a decision after costing much time comparing products and prices, due to the long delivery period, the one still bears a even higher risk of price drop after placing an order.

“Facing the explosive increase of data and constant increasing demand for the optical transmission rate, how can I control the overall cost properly?”

“I placed the order finally, but there is still a long time before the delivery date, what if the product price drops during the period?”

“In front of opaque prices and high technically knowledge barriers of products, how can I assess if the product is worth its price?”

Such doubts and problems confuse many industry partners all the time.

Due to the large size of the hyper-scale data center, there is a necessary demand for overall cost control; while the small and medium-sized equipment vendors are often limited by scale and have limited ability to resist cost risks, which causes the truth that generally they are more sensitive to costs and prices. In order to effectively help downstream industry partners to solve problems and share cost pressures, FIBERSTAMP chewed over the industry situation and pressure at the critical stage, and once again strategically focused on cost control. After countless assumptions, unit selections and tests, it was completed in the 100G optical module product line to cut off redundant cost without any quality or performance discount and optimize the overall cost control system once again.

Of course, FIBERSTAMP didn’t intend to convert the cut costs into pure corporate profits, but rather took this opportunity to share the achievement with industry partners, so that more users can experience our products, quality and cost control ability, and witness our long-term technical determination to timely reflect real user demands on products.

With Quality as the Basic, Cost Improvement is a Long-term Issue

FIBERSTAMP has been digging in the two core fields of technology & design optimization and supply chain optimization. Through long-term unremitting research and trial and error, and relied on its excellent quality control ability, FIBERSTAMP achieved a significant design upgrade and another stable breakthrough of cost control.

Innovative Optical Design

FIBERSTAMP adopts an innovative optical design scheme in the 100G optical transceivers. On the basis of meeting the product life cycle and ensuring performance, it has greatly simplified the packaging and procedures, and effectively controlled the overall cost. For example, FIBERSTAMP’s 100G QSFP28 LR4 uses the self-developed 100G RX AWG+COB innovative packaging solution to replace the traditional ROSA BOX solution, and 100G QSFP28 CWDM4 upgrades the MINI-TOSA+AWG to an optimized BOX solution, and all upgraded versions have passed strict reliability text, through which FIBERSTAMP has achieved a comprehensive upgrade of performance, quality and cost performance!

Low Power Circuit Design

In the circuit design, FIBERSTAMP also made a series of optimization actions: adhering to the low-power design orientation, FIBERSTAMP adopts a series new designs of low-power circuit, intelligent power supply and optimized low-voltage to achieve low-power performance; at the same time, in the circuit system operation management, FIBERSTAMP has eliminated redundant loops and waits in the program, greatly reduced the power consumption of the entire system, and achieved extremely simplified power consumption control throughout the entire process.

All-in-one Alternative Scheme

Relying on the intelligent supply chain quality management system accumulated for many years, FIBERSTAMP has carried out a year-long supply chain optimization strategy, made an integrated upgrade of the core parts and underlying components. FIBERSTAMP implemented numerous reliability tests upon dozens of alternative optical chips repeatedly, selected several models conforming to standard and applied them to testing models to provide users with highly competitive prices and more options; at the same time, FIBERSTAMP optimizes the supply chain of key components and the combination scheme of AAWG arrayed waveguide grating devices to achieve a comprehensive upgrade in cost control.

Quality can Never be Compromised

While pursuing effective cost reduction, it is FIBERSTAMP’s consistent basic principle to ensure robust and reliable quality. In terms of quality control, FIBERSTAMP has always been well-known in the industry. Relying on the mature CSD triangle quality management system, FIBERSTAMP has realized the closed-loop quality management that the whole process from R&D to customer feedback is tightly interconnected, ensuring that customer complaints can quickly act on the R&D phase and reflected in the end product timely.

At the same time, FIBERSTAMP has a complete reliability test system accumulated for many years, and has superior ability to analyze and improve reliability issues on levels of equipment, module and unit, and meets international GR468, GR1221 and other general standards to ensure optimum product reliability.

At the same time, FIBERSTAMP’s product line has a complete quality certification system, which greatly guarantees product quality in the three dimensions of electromagnetic compatibility, safety regulations and environmental protection.

Based on the above activities, FIBERSTAMP also promises to customize a 100G product price preserve policy for large customers. For customers or partners with long-term needs, once the order value reaches the threshold standard, FIBERSTAMP promises the most competitive price and an additional service of order price preserve. After signing the agreement, once the user obtains lower offer of competing products with the same quality points during the exchange, FIBERSTAMP will adjust the price of the undelivered products to the same level once to cover the price risk for the customer.

For enterprises, cost control is a big subject in need of long-term research and investment. Every link from the supply chain to R&D and production to customer maintenance, and every dimension from performance, quality to user experience, requires excellent cooperation, bold inferences, repeated consideration and rigorous testing. Starting from the actual needs of clients, working out effective and timely solutions, generating products with strong price competitiveness, innovative design concepts and humanistic care, should be a long-run subject that every supplier should think about as facing the fiercely competitive industry environment and the data-explosive network environment.

FIBERSTAMP will keep pressing on with the basic subject of cost control as carrying out product design and R&D, continuously optimize technology and management with the help of its long-term accumulated scale advantages and strong supply chain bargaining, and continue to provide users with economic, reliable and various products and solutions!

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400G QSFP-DD PSM8 uses a single PCB design, so mass production is good, the process is reliable, the thermal design is controllable, and the performance and power consumption are excellent. Based on the excellent parallel optical design, this product is at the leading level in the industry.

Features:

• 8-lane parallel light engine
• Support both 400GE and OTN data rates
• Reach up to 10km over SMF
• Uncooled 50G PAM4 lasers
• High-density design with good reliability
• Low power consumption
• Commercial operating case temperature range: 0℃ to 70℃

“On behalf of the Lightwave Innovation Reviews, I would like to congratulate FIBERSTAMP on their high-scoring honoree status,” said Lightwave Associate Publisher and Editorial Director, Stephen Hardy.“This competitive program allows Lightwave to celebrate and recognize the most innovative products impacting the optical communications community this year.”

2021 Lightwave Innovation Reviews Honorees

400G QSFP-DD PSM8 Award Evaluation

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FIBERSTAMP’s industry-leading 400G QSFP-DD PSM8 transceiver adopts uncooled 50G PAM4 EML lasers to achieve 2-10km intra-connection for 400G data center. It adopts parallel light engine and a single PCB to simplify production, and features reliable process, easy mass production, controllable thermal design, excellent performance and low power consumption.

The Lightwave Innovation Reviews recognizes excellence in a product or technology applicable to optical networks and has been held for 7 years. A panel of judges will evaluate submitted entries for originality, innovation, positive impact on the customer, how well it addresses a new or existing requirement, and cost-effectiveness.

About Lightwave

Through integrated media portfolio, Lightwave delivers content focused on fiber optics and optoelectronics, the technologies that enable the growth, integration and improved performance of voice, data and video communications networks and services. The company’s experienced editorial team provides trusted technology, application and market insights to corporate executives, department heads, project managers, network engineers and technical managers at equipment suppliers, service providers and major end-user organizations. The unique ability to inform Lightwave audience’s business-critical decisions is based in 35+ year relationship with the entire optical community—technology vendors, communications carriers and major enterprises—and the recognition of the interplay among its members.

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