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Picolight partners with Pemstar for manufacturing

VCSEL pioneer Picolight has extended its product range and begun a manufacturing partnership with Pemstar to better meet the expected demand for its products.
Picolight of Boulder, CO, has entered into a manufacturing partnership with Pemstar, provider of global engineering, manufacturing and fulfillment services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The partnership with Pemstar enables Picolight to seamlessly expand the company’s manufacturing capacity for its Accelar and Extensus fiber-optic transceivers for enterprise and metro/access markets.

“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."

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