Ranovus of Ottawa, the datacentre interconnect specialist, has brought out a photonics interconnect called Odin which is based on ICs which can each handle 3.2Tbs.

The image shows 16 of these ICs on a board capable of delivering 51.2Tbs.

The interconnect comprises Ranovus’ multi-wavelength Quantum Dot Laser (QDL), 100 Gbps silicon photonics based Micro Ring Resonator modulators and photodetectors, 100 Gbps Driver, 100Gbps TIA and control ICs.

“Odin 8 marks the beginning of the road to multi-terabit Co-Packaged Optics for Compute, Storage and Networking,” says Ranovus CEO Hamid ArabzadehL

Ranovus says that Odin 8:
Supports transmission distance of 10m to 2km in CWDM and DWDM applications
Offers 8 optical channels of 100Gbps/64Gbps/50Gbps PAM4 or 50Gbps/32Gbps/25Gbps NRZ
Supports DR & FR configurations
Supports QSFP-DD and OSFP module form factors
Supports 25.6Tbps and 51.2Tbps Ethernet Switch configurations