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Marvell Launches Industry's First 800G ZR/ZR+ Modules for Data Center Interconnects
COLORZ® 800 is the industry's first family of 800 Gbps ZR/ZR+ coherent pluggable optical modules for connecting data centers up to 1,200km apart. Doubling
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[{"type":"text","content":"COLORZ® 800 is the industry's first family of 800 Gbps ZR/ZR+ coherent pluggable optical modules for connecting data centers up to 1,200km apart. Doubling connectivity speed from 400 Gbps to 800 Gbps, COLORZ 800 expands ZR/ZR+ use cases while lowering capex and opex.COLORZ 800 incorporates Marvell's new 5nm Orion™ 800G coherent DSP and innovative, field-proven silicon photonics platform.SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today introduced COLORZ 800, the industry's first family of 800 Gbps ZR/ZR+ pluggable modules for scaling data center interconnects (DCIs) rapidly, economically, and efficiently in the AI era.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nCOLORZ 800 incorporates Marvell's new Orion 800 Gbps coherent DSP and innovative, field-proven silicon photonics platform, which integrates multiple discrete components into a single die, providing up to 800 Gbps of bandwidth for DCI links up to 500km. COLORZ 800 can also be enabled for connections up to 1,200km operating at 400/600 Gbps to replace traditional transport equipment across a greater range of cloud infrastructure.\nCOLORZ 800 lowers the capital cost of DCI by up to 75% compared to traditional rack-based DCI boxes with embedded DSPs1 while cutting operating expenses such as power, rack space and real estate. Additionally, COLORZ 800 doubles the speed while lowering cost per bit and power per bit by up to 30% compared to existing solutions2. \nMarvell will demonstrate COLORZ 800 and Orion at the European Conference on Optical Communications taking place October 2-4, 2023, in Glasgow, Scotland.\nExpanding Opportunities for ZR/ZR+ DeploymentZR/ZR+ pluggable modules are high-performance, high-capacity optical interfaces for connecting data centers and other infrastructures over optical networks and have been instrumental in providing the bandwidth and performance to enable organizations to shift more of their workloads to the cloud. With AI, the role of DCI will grow in importance to accommodate the expected surge in traffic that will occur between centralized data centers dedicated to AI training and regional data centers focused on AI inference to support new services and users.\nBased on open standards managed by the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and OpenZR+, ZR/ZR+ mo...