News & Technical Notes

Digital diagnostics monitoring is built into nearly every modern transceiver, yet it is rarely checked before a shipment is accepted. Five numbers tell you most of what you need to know: temperature, voltage, bias current, Tx power and Rx power.

Both 800G form factors carry the same 8x100G PAM4 electrical lane structure, so the decision is rarely about speed. Thermal headroom, port density and the switch platform you already run usually settle it.

Industrial-temperature options covering -40 to +85 °C are now available across our 1G SFP, 10G SFP+ and 25G SFP28 lines, for 5G fronthaul, rail, power utility and outdoor cabinet deployments.

Our team is back from CIOE 2026 in Shenzhen, where the 1G-800G transceiver line ran in continuous interoperability demos on mainstream switch platforms and most of our time went into answering selection and compatibility questions.

Our 800G DR8, SR8 and FR8 modules based on 8x100G PAM4 architecture are now in volume production, targeting AI training clusters and high-performance computing interconnect where port density and power efficiency matter most.

Thickened gold plating on the edge connector is one of the most underrated reliability factors in optical transceivers. We explain how extra-thick gold reduces contact resistance and wear across thousands of insertion cycles.

Three 100G QSFP28 variants cover most metro and data center interconnects, and they are not interchangeable. Here is how to pick between LR4, CWDM4 and PSM4 based on fiber type, distance and what you already have in the ground.

Many 5G fronthaul sites were built with a single fiber strand to the tower. BIDI optics let you move from 10G to 25G without pulling new cable — provided the wavelength pairing and the temperature grade are right.