The Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) returned once again to provide a crucial platform for companies of the industry from around the globe. Taken place this past week, March 5th to 9th in San Diego, the annual exhibition and conference presented up-to-date techniques, materials, technologies, and applications in fiber optic technology. Below you will find…

Learn the basics about SmartNICs, their design, and why they’ll be a crucial element in future networks.

The P2124 from Picotest lets you inject modulation signals onto your board’s power rails for noise immunity testing.

Learn the basics of how to use RF over fiber. You have many options.

Optical fiber can carry analog RF signals from antenna to receiver with far less loss than coaxial cables.

In an audio interview, Semtech’s Raza Khan explains why 5G networks use the four-level modulation to transport baseband data, starting at the radio.

At OFC 2022, OIF demonstrated products from several companies communicating with each other based on a standard for interoperable coherent optics. Other demonstrations included a 112 Gb/sec electrical link, flexible Ethernet, co-packaging, and a 224 Gb/sec technology proposal.

ZNrun software from Rohde & Schwarz automates Ethernet cable testing in combination with a VNA and switch.

The M8050A BERT from Keysight technologies let’s you test electrical interfaces for digital data streams for emerging data rates of 800 Gb/sec and 1.6 Tb/sec.

The Lightpass-EOB 100G from I-Pex shortens PCB traces, thus improving BER.