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Intel® Silicon Photonics

Bring together the power of optics and the scalability of silicon to eliminate networking bottlenecks in large-scale cloud and enterprise data centers. Providing a high-bandwidth optical interface for Ethernet products.

Intel® Silicon Photonics

Intel® Silicon Photonics Pluggable Optical Transceivers

Intel® Silicon Photonics Pluggable Optical Transceivers Intel® Silicon Photonics Pluggable Optical Transceiver products are high speed, low power consumption products targeted for use in optical interconnects.

Intel® Silicon Photonics Products

Check out our new class of high-speed optical connectivity products and how they can help address the growing demand for data center bandwidth.

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Intel® Silicon Photonics 100G PSM4 Optical Transceiver

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Intel® Silicon Photonics 100G CWDM4 Optical Transceiver

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Intel® Silicon Photonics 100G CWDM4 QSFP28 Optical Transceiver with Extended Temperature

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Intel® Silicon Photonics 100G DR/FR/LR QSFP28 Optical Transceiver

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Intel® Silicon Photonics 100G LR4 QSFP28 Optical Transceiver

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Intel® Silicon Photonics 200G FR4 QSFP56 Optical Transceiver

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Intel® Silicon Photonics 400G DR4 QSFP-DD Optical Transceiver

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Intel® Silicon Photonics 400G FR4 QSFP-DD Optical Transceiver

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Intel® Silicon Photonics 400G LR4 QSFP-DD Optical Transceiver

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Intel® 100G SR4 QSFP28 Optical Transceiver

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Intel® 100G QSFP28 Active Optical Cable

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What Is Intel® Silicon Photonics?
Moving Data with Light

Intel® Silicon Photonics are a new class of high-speed optical connectivity products that combine silicon-integrated circuits and semiconductor lasers. Our silicon-based components transmit and receive optical signals at 100 Gigabits per second and higher over long distances.

How to Buy Intel® Silicon Photonics

Interested in eliminating networking bottlenecks and improving data transfer spees over longer distances? Our sales team can help you find Intel(R) Silicon Photonics products that fit your data center's demands and existing infrastructure.

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  • Photonics in the 5G Wireless Network
  • Ramping 100 Gbps Connectivity

Photonics in the 5G Wireless Network

Take advantage of the existing industry move to fiber optics for 4G and 5G RAN fronthaul. Intel® Silicon Photonics Optical Transceivers help meet the high bandwidth and distance requirements of 5G networks.

Ramping 100 Gbps Connectivity

Intel® Silicon Photonics Optical Transceivers enable data centers to deploy 100 Gbps solutions cost-effectively. These optical transceivers use Intel's hybrid laser technology, featuring greater than 90% coupling efficiency.1,2 High-density optical interconnects deliver unmatched manufacturing capabilities, scale, and cost-efficiency.

Intel® Silicon Photonics Pluggable Optical Transceivers

Intel® Silicon Photonics Pluggable Optical Transceivers Intel® Silicon Photonics optical transceivers providing connectivity for large-scale cloud and enterprise data centers.

See Our Latest Optical Transceiver in Action

Watch a demonstration of how the Intel® Silicon Photonics 800G DR8 OSFP Optical Transceiver works.

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VentureBeat Explores the Past, Present, and Future of Intel’s Silicon Photonics Vision

Intel sees bright future for silicon photonics, moving information at light speed in data centers and beyond.

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The Future of Silicon Photonics at Scale - CitC Episode 230

Intel’s Robert Blum joins host Jake Smith to talk about Intel’s broader connectivity group. How the company facilitates efficiently moving data between servers and across the data center with a wide range of products, including silicon photonics, Ethernet switches, accelerators and more.

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Optical Networking at Scale with Intel® Silicon Photonics

This presentation discusses the advancements Intel has made in Silicon Photonics since first launching 100Gb/s transceivers over 4 years ago. How manufacturing optics at scale has resulted in the deployment of more than 5 million transceivers for hyperscale data centers to date.

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Intel Photonics: Integration at the Wafer Level

Optical Connections sat down with Robert Blum and Darron Young for a deep dive into the company’s photonics strategy going forward.

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Lightwave’s Stephen Hardy Interviews Intel’s Robert Blum

Robert Blum gives an update on Intel Silicon Photonics and the progress it has made since its first product launch in 2016.

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Intel Demonstrates Industry-First Co-Packaged Optics Ethernet Switch

Intel Corporation announced in March 2020 that it successfully integrated its 1.6 Tbps silicon photonics engine with its 12.8 Tbps programmable Ethernet switch.

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Hands-on with the Intel Co-Packaged Optics and Silicon Photonics Switch

Patrick Kennedy from ServeTheHome got to check out Intel’s live demonstration of co-packaged optics switch passing 400Gbps Ethernet traffic.

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Intel® Silicon Photonics Exhibits at ECOC 2019

Intel’s Robert Blum highlights our products and live demonstrations at ECOC Exhibition held in Dublin, Germany.

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ECOC TV Interview with Intel’s Thomas Liljeberg

Intel GM of Photonic Integration Thomas Liljeberg talks about the need for integration of silicon photonics and switch ASICS.

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Better Network Connectivity

See how network connectivity products from Intel help transform data-driven businesses with intelligent, high-speed connectivity that creates better customer experiences.

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Exploring 5G Fronthaul Network Architectures

Learn about common reference architecture intelligence splits and their associated bandwidth and implementation trade-offs.

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Silicon Photonics: High Speed Optical Connectivity for 5G Wireless

Silicon Photonics continues to ramp in the data center and now expands to new markets like 5G. Explore Intel’s data center connectivity strategy and find out the latest around Silicon Photonics.

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Silicon Photonics: Data Center Connectivity

Intel's Robert Blum writes about how silicon photonics will be key for data center connectivity and meeting the demands for bandwidth.

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Silicon Photonics Passes the Tipping Point

John Williamson describes the journey of silicon photonics and how the technology has passed the tipping point towards massive growth.

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Intel Delivers Silicon Photonics for Hyperscale Data Centers

Intel Chip Chat strives to bring listeners closer to the innovations and inspirations of the men and women shaping the future of computing, and in process share a little bit about technology themselves.

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