NeoPhotonics and Inphi Complete the First Successful Interoperability Demonstration of 400ZR Over 120km

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI), a leader in high-speed data movement interconnects, and NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading developer of silicon photonics and advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based lasers, modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced that the companies completed the industry’s first interoperability demonstration of OIF 400ZR Implementation Agreement compliant coherent transceivers, operating successfully across the C-Band over 120km of optical fiber. Transceiver pairs consisting of Inphi’s COLORZ® II QSFP-DD with its Canopus™ 7nm Coherent DSP and NeoPhotonics 400ZR ClearLightTM OSFP were successfully linked. Both 400ZR coherent optics transceivers carried error-free traffic over a typical data center interconnect (DCI) link configuration (amplified over 120km of fiber) at several wavelengths across the C-Band using Arista 7060 data center switches.