AppliedMicro Samples CMOS Gearbox ICs for 100Gbps Optical Interconnects

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, or AppliedMicro (Nasdaq: AMCC) today announced it is sampling S28010 Gearbox integrated circuit devices for 100 Gigabit Ethernet and OTU4 optical interfaces. The S28010 enables the industry’s most cost-effective, power-efficient 100GBASE-xR4 and OTU4 optical modules with a single-chip CMOS device with superior performance to 28.1 Gbps. AppliedMicro will demonstrate the S28010 Gearbox at OFC/NFOEC 2012 from March 6-8 in Los Angeles.