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10–11 Sept 2019
Assembly Buildings, Belfast
Europe/London timezone
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The complexity of hyper speed transceivers - lets make it!

10 Sept 2019, 11:40
30m
Assembly Hall (Assembly Buildings, Belfast)

Assembly Hall

Assembly Buildings, Belfast

2 - 10 Fisherwick Place Belfast BT1 6DW
Standard Presentation Main Session

Speaker

Thomas Weible (flexOptix GmbH)

Description

Thomas will describe in detail the structures inside optical transceivers. A Transmitter / Receiver Optical Sub Assembly (TOSA / ROSA) is no longer just a diode in a housing handling the light path to and fro to the fiber.
The performance increases from 10G to 100G onwards to 400G - are not only giant steps in bandwidth they are matching leaps in manufacturing.

How did the optical industry players around the globe make it possible to squeeze everything into the tiny form factors we see today? It is about all precision - a microscope with a calm and competent hand is no longer sufficient, now it is about; nano tolerances, testing, complex transceiver firmware and a shed load of money.

This is the high precision optical mechanical engineering revolution which fuels the hyper growth of data centers and optical networking worldwide…

As a small „one more thing" Thomas will dive into the basics of how FEC compensates for errors caused by PAM4 modulation.

presenter: Thomas Weible - Co-Founder and CTO of Flexoptix GmbH. He formerly lead the groundbreaking software development within the company. Thomas has moved more and more towards the field of transceiver technology and his so called „support with no levels and no bullshit“. Enthusiastic in everything he does, he gives realistic and practical answers to get transceivers working and operational. As speaker at several conferences around the globe he is able to target the needs of network engineers.

Primary author

Thomas Weible (flexOptix GmbH)

Presentation materials