Mellanox Technologies and Oclaro Teaming Up

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. teamed up with Oclaro, Inc., to connect that company’s 1310nm LR (Long Reach) SFP28 transceiver line with Mellanox’ 1550nm PSM4 transceivers.

The solution enables linking servers, storage, and network appliances to network switches, and demonstrates the transparent interoperability between transceivers of differing wavelengths.

Mellanox demonstrated the solution at the largest optical event in Europe, the European Convention on Optical Communications (ECOC), September 18-22, Dusseldorf, Germany. The live demonstration connected the company’s 100Gb/s PSM4 1550nm transceivers to four of Oclaro’s 1310nm LR SFP28 transceivers over 10m of single-mode fiber, connecting Mellanox 100Gb/s Ethernet switches to 25G/s ConnectX-4 Lx network adapters.

“Customers select PSM4 transceivers because they provide the most cost effective Ethernet links for reaches of 100m to 2km,” said Amir Prescher, SVP of business development, Mellanox. “We teamed up with industry leader Oclaro to demonstrate that PSM4 transceivers, with fiber breakout cables, can connect directly to four separate SFP28 LR transceivers. This enables next generation servers and storage appliances t be located anywhere in the data center or even across campus.“

“We are pleased to team with Mellanox Technologies to show our 1310nm LR transceivers working with Mellanox’s 1550nm transceivers,” said Yves LeMaitre, president, optical connectivity business, Oclaro. “This illustrates the strength of our transceiver design as being capable of interoperating at multiple wavelengths.“

At ECOC, Mellanox also featured live demonstrations
of the entire LinkX interconnect product portfolio
linking Mellanox 100Gb/s switches and high-speed servers, including: