Mellanox –a provider of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers –in conjunction with Ranovus, announces that the Open Compute Project (OCP) can be enhanced by making use of wavelength specifications developed by OpenOptics Multi-Source Agreement (MSA). OpenOptics MSA is an industry consortium which was initiated with the purpose of standardizing Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) for an interoperable 100G WDM standard for 2 kilometer reach and Ranovus is a provider of multi-terabit interconnect solutions for data center and communications networks. The OpenOptics initiative, which aims at creating a stable foundation for next generation data center optics for 100G and 400G, began by defining a 1550nm QSFP28 optical transceiver for 100G data center networks on single mode fiber (SMF) infrastructure. The new specification enables data to be streamed at terabits per second over a single fiber and it will leverage low-cost silicon photonics technologies to enable data centers to use up to 32 or more channels per fiber strand. Gilad Shainerr, Vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies, opines that the latest move will provide OCP with architecture standard that scales to a terabit and beyond on existing fiber and it will substantially reduces the cost of hyperscale data center networks. On the other hand, Ranovus’ Chief Marketing and sales Officer, Saeid Aramideh believes that this specifi8cation agreement will accelerate the adoption of silicon-photonics-based WDM solutions for the data center market. “We are pleased to see Mellanox bringing their Open Optics submission to the OCP networking project. Standards efforts like these help further the Open Compute vision for openness and a faster pace of innovation in network technologies,” says Frank Frankovksy, Chairman and President, Open Compute Project.