Optical Interconnect Solution for Cloud Data Center

Cloud data center is the infrastructure of cloud computing. Cloud computing business is continuing to penetrate, driving the construction of cloud computing super data center. The cloud IT infrastructure is mainly composed of switches, servers, and optical cables and optical modules (or AOC) that interconnect all these. The large-scale cloud data center will greatly increase the use of optical modules, and have more requirements for the transmission distance of optical modules, which will increase the proportion of single-mode optical modules.

The explosive growth of cloud data center traffic has driven the data rate of optical modules to upgrade and accelerate. It took 5 years for 10G rate ports to iterate to 40G rate ports, 4 years for 40G rate ports to upgrade to 100G rate ports, and may likely take only 3 years for 100G rate ports to 400G rate ports. In the future, all export data in the data center will need to undergo internal massive computing (especially the rise of applications such as AI, which makes the internal and export traffic more amazing). Nowadays, the flat architecture is widely used in data centers, so that the 100G optical module market will continue to grow at a high speed.