SUPER 8: A scalable 200G Super-thermal, 8 channel CWDM architecture

到2020年，全球数据中心设备市场预计价值720亿美元，在云计算、移动互联网使用和新兴物联网等服务指数需求的推动下，市场将实现两位数增长。数据中心运营商不得不扰乱供应链，因为他们寻求更积极的技术路线图来支持一系列新服务。他们正在建设越来越大的数据中心，这需要更多的互联带宽。大容量光服务器互连的成本和可用性已成为数据中心持续增长的瓶颈。因此，该市场经历了一个前所未有的升级周期，2014年从10 Gbps过渡到40 Gbps，随后在2016年从40G过渡到100G。该行业目前预计从2018/2019年开始将达到400G-但它正在努力寻找一个令人满意的解决方案&GT；100G。我们的项目旨在提供一个颠覆性的、可扩展的架构，该架构将基于在40G和100G市场中得到验证的技术提供解决方案&GT；100G。组建的财团可以解决英国Transciever开发供应链的完整组件，以及苏格兰和威尔士现有设施的批量制造服务。

The global datacentre equipment market is projected to be worth US$72B by 2020 with double digit growth fueled by exponential demand for services such as cloud computing, mobile internet usage and emerging IoT. Datacentre operators have to disrupt the supply chain as they seek more aggressive technology roadmaps to support a host of new services. They are building larger and larger datacentres that require more interconnection bandwidth. The cost and availability of the high capacity optical server interconnects has become a bottleneck to continue datacentre growth. As a result, this market has seen an unprecedented upgrade cycle with a transition from 10 Gbps to 40Gbps occurring in 2014, followed by another to transition from 40G to 100G in 2016. The industry is currently expecting 400G to ramp starting in 2018/2019—but it is struggling to find a satisfactory solution >100G. Our project aims to deliver a disruptive, scalable architecture which will deliver solutions > 100G based based on a technology which is proven in the 40G and 100G market. The consortium assembled can address the full component to transciever development supply chain in the UK, and service volume manufacturing from existing facilities in Scotland and Wales.