Marvell to
showcase connectivity optimized for diverse architectures and use
cases to meet exploding demand for bandwidth
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., March 26,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor
solutions, will outline its broad-ranging strategy to optimize
optical technology to meet the rising performance and power
requirements of AI and cloud data centers at OFC 2024, taking place
this week in San Diego,
California.
Marvell CEO and Chairman, Matt
Murphy, and EVP and GM of Cloud Optics, Dr. Loi Nguyen, among others, will discuss the
driving forces behind the growth of optical as well as Marvell's ideas for enhancing optical PAM4
DSPs, coherent DSPs, silicon photonics, and other optical
technologies for data centers to serve an expanding range of
architectures, applications, use cases, performance
characteristics, and customer profiles.
Products and use cases being unveiled at OFC include:
- Nova 2: The industry's first 1.6T optical DSP featuring
200G per lane electrical and optical I/O, Marvell® Nova 2 will enable
module integrators to produce industry-standard optical
transceivers delivering the bandwidth density required by switches,
AI accelerators and other devices. 200 Gbps per lane I/O is a
defining feature of next-generation data center architectures.
Nova 2 is sampling to customers now. Nova, a 1.6T optical DSP
featuring 100G per lane electrical I/O and 200G per lane optical
interfaces, is now generally available.
- Marvell 3D Silicon
Photonics Engine: The Marvell
3D SiPho Engine combines hundreds of components needed for optical
communications into a single device. Featuring 200G I/O, 3D SiPho
Engine delivers 2x the bandwidth, 2x the input/output (I/O)
bandwidth density, and 30% lower power per bit versus comparable
devices with 100 Gbps electrical and optical
interfaces1. Potential applications include modules for
AI clusters.
- Spica™ Gen2-T: A new category of optical
DSPs, Spica Gen2-T is designed for transmit retimed optical (TRO)
modules, an emerging class of modules for AI and cloud use cases.
Transmit-only DSPs enable TROs to reduce power consumption by more
than 40% compared to conventional transceivers2. Spica
Gen2-T is the fourth 800 Gbps optical DSP from Marvell and part of its effort to optimize
optical DSPs, along with other cloud and AI silicon, for specific
use cases and applications.
- COLORZ® 800: First Demo of Probabilistic
Constellation Shaping at 800 Gbps and Industry Momentum.
Probabilistic Constellation Shaping (PCS) effectively doubles the
reach of coherent DSP modules employed for long-distance
communications. Marvell will
showcase COLORZ 800 modules linked to a Teralynx® 10
switch running in PCS mode capable of providing full capacity for
up to 1000 km.
Marvell COLORZ 800 technology will also be on display in booths
from Arista Networks (#4901) and the Optical Internetworking Forum
(OIF) multi-vendor interoperability demonstration (#1323).
- O-band Optics: Xi Wang,
Ph.D., vice president of marketing for Optical Connectivity at
Marvell, examines the growing use
cases for coherent DSPs leveraging the O-band optics in data
centers. At higher bandwidths, O-band optics can potentially cover
greater lengths than PAM4 DSPs while consuming less power than
today's coherent DSPs. The Market Watch panel takes place on
Tuesday, March 26 at 12:30-2:00 p.m. in Theater 1.
- Juniper Networks, Coherent Corp., and Marvell Collaborate on
ZR/ZR+ Transport Solution: The three companies will demonstrate
a combined solution featuring Marvell Orion, the industry's first
800 Gbps coherent DSP for long-distance data center interconnects
and telecommunications networks, Coherent's module technology and
Juniper's routing platform.
- Customer Momentum for Orion with InnoLight and
HGGenuine: Module manufacturing leaders will highlight new 800G
ZR/ZR+ modules powered by Orion for data center interconnects, IP
over DWDM, and other use cases.
- More on Marvell presenters and
exhibits at its booth (#2225) can be found here.
"Over the last two decades, optical data rates have increased
1000x while energy per bit has declined 100x3, and in
the process transformed data infrastructure and enabled the rise of
services like streaming media, cloud computing, smartphones and
AI," said Dr. Radha Nagarajan,
senior vice president and chief technology officer, Optical
Platforms at Marvell and the 2024
recipient of the David Richardson Medal for significant
contributions to optical engineering. "The industry is now entering
a new chapter and Marvell is
looking forward to collaborating with its partners in extending the
horizons of this far-reaching technology."
About Marvell
To
deliver the data infrastructure technology that connects the world,
we're building solutions on the most powerful foundation: our
partnerships with our customers. Trusted by the world's leading
technology companies for over 25 years, we move, store, process and
secure the world's data with semiconductor solutions designed for
our customers' current needs and future ambitions. Through a
process of deep collaboration and transparency, we're ultimately
changing the way tomorrow's enterprise, cloud, automotive, and
carrier architectures transform—for the better.
- Marvell
estimates.
- Marvell estimates based on
internal testing.
- Marvell, IEEE Journal of
Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, May/June 2023.
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