Re: COBO adds co-packaged optics to its agenda

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Re: COBO adds co-packaged optics to its agenda

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COBO adds co-packaged optics to its agenda

ohiotom123

posted on May 17, 2021 10:01AM

Good morning

ohiotom this is a very interesting and important development. All organizations are working together now, much better.

And it seems that co-packaged optics is the solution. (That’s what POET is promoting)

Also both Facebook & Microsoft have buildt "on-board optics platform"

COBO was backed by Microsoft and was promoted as an important intermediate step in the evolution from pluggable modules to co-packaged optics.

“The focus has moved more towards co-packaged optics,” admits Booth. “Although what is interesting is that Facebook did an on-board optics platform, and Microsoft did, and we got learnings from that.”
Facebook’s on-board optics is sourced from a company and is not COBO-complaint.  

By the way - POET is not a member of COBO, as far as I know.

Microsoft could also have chosen a proprietary solution but it wanted to avoid being dependent on a single-source solution, given its unit requirements would be much greater.