Thursday, December 3, 2009

Enablence building photodiodes for Light Peak: Optical interconnect for PCs

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA: Enablence Technologies Inc., a leading supplier of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment for triple-play residential and business services and optical components and subsystems for access, metro and long-haul markets, will be working with Intel and other industry leaders to develop the latest in optical connection technology for PCs.

During the recent Intel Developer Forum, Intel unveiled Light Peak, a 10 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) optical interconnect for PCs, that will use photodiodes, including Enablence's large area dual wavelength 10Gb/s photodiodes, for its build.

"Intel is pleased to be working with Enablence to make Light Peak optical components ready to ship in 2010", said Jason Ziller, Director, Optical I/O Program Office, Intel Corp.

"Light Peak has high bandwidth and the ability to run multiple I/O protocols over a single fiber cable, enabling the technology to connect to many devices such as displays, disk drives, peripherals, and docking stations on a single fiber cable." Intel's Light Peak platform is designed to deliver high bandwidth of up to 10 Gb/s, with the potential to grow to 100 Gb/s in the foreseeable future.

"We are excited to work with Intel to help create a new generation of optical interconnects for consumer applications using Enablence's technology strengths in this new area of application" said Arvind Chhatbar, CEO of Enablence.

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