Photowave™ is the first optical communications hardware designed for PCIe and Compute Express Link (CXL) connectivity.
Available in multiple form factors, Photowave leverages the significant latency and energy efficiency of photonic technology, empowering data center managers to scale resources within or across server racks.
Photowave enables CXL 2.0/PCIe Gen 5 connectivity over optics, with support for x16, x8, x4 and x2 bifurcation modes of operation, allowing for a wide variety of deployment scenarios. In addition to high speed electrical-to-optical conversion for the data signals, Photowave also supports sideband signals over optics, making it possible to implement more efficient and reliable disaggregation architectures.
