Xanoptix announces Pre-emphasis feature for parallel optics product line

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, March 21, 2003

Xanoptix, a innovator of high performance components for next generation data communications and computing equipment, announces the availability of electrical preemphasis as part of the feature set for its XTM Series of parallel optics modules. Pre-emphasis is essential for high speed electrical links since it mitigates the effect of deterministic jitter by adding additional high frequency components to the transmitted signal. Thus, link budgets are considerably increased. Integrating this functionality directly into Xanoptix's products enables customers to design links without the need for additional electrical components to ensure signal integrity.

Xanoptix introduced the industry leading XTM Series of products in Spring 2002 as a scaleable product suite that comprises a number of full-duplex parallel optics modules. The XTM12, XTM-16, XTM-24, XTM-32, XTM-48 and XTM-72 terminate fiber counts ranging from 12 to 72. They offer line rates of up to 3.4 Gbps per fiber and aggregate bandwidths starting at just a few gigabits/second and moving up to 245 gigabits! second. Each module uses only one single MT-style optical connector and an industry standard electrical connector.