Picolight partners with Pemstar for manufacturing
“Pemstar’s high-quality, high-volume global production capabilities extend our ability to meet customer demand for transceivers in key, fast-growing segments of the fiber-optic market,” said John McMunn, vice president of transceiver R&D and operations for Picolight. “Pemstar has a proven track record in this market, and a number of our customers have completed rigorous audits of the combined Picolight and Pemstar supply chain and reported outstanding quality results.”
Picolight continues to manufacture key optical sub-components in Boulder. These optical elements are assembled by Pemstar and tested to Picolight’s standards. The company has already transferred manufacturing for a number of its transceiver products to Pemstar’s facilities in Bangkok, Thailand.
Picolight has also added 8 products to its family of 1310 nm SFF and SFP fiber-optic transceivers for access and metro networks, including the company s first products for the Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) market.
Significantly expanding the company s offering, these new products range in speed from 100 Mbit/s to 2.488 Gbit/s over distances of 2-15 km and support enhanced features such as digital diagnostics. Picolight s Extensus family of transceivers now supports the majority of high volume 1310 nm applications.
"Picolight s pluggable, high-volume optical interconnects helped revolutionize optics deployment in local- and storage-area networks," said Stan Swirhun, Picolight s CEO . "Picolight was founded on the premise that enterprise optics concepts would ultimately expand to dominate the transceiver market. The same high-volume, high-performance product approach we developed in the enterprise and storage network markets is now available for access and metropolitan transport applications."