!HEPiX Techwatch Network Silicon Photonics

some news

Cisco buys Luxtera for its silicon photonics (660mio) link

• silicon photonics best wayto archieve 400G / 1T in data center
• smaller formfactor can lead to higher port density switches
• expected 35% of optical transciever market in 2025

Silicon Photonics market couldreach up to $1 bio in 2024 link

• reduction of power consupmtion for high bandwidch devices (NIC, router and switches)
• mostly in data centers and for 5G networks

Silicon Photonics Market Research Report - Global Forecast to 2023 link

• picture claims ~1 bio in 2023

other links / references

• Roadmap on silicon photonics (2016) link
  can download via CERN ?
• sort of encyclopedia, with buyers' guide ...
• some other details
• Melanox

some Manufacturers

• IBM
• Intel
• Global Foundries
• Macom
• Analog Photonics
• Luxtera

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia

other talks

Edoardo's post to ML

-- RolfSeuster - 2019-02-28