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Scaling Optical Bandwidth: NPO, DWDM & CPO Innovations at OFC
Steve Klinger, VP, Product at Lightmatter shares a series of major product innovations and partnerships and broad industry announcements at OFC 2026, highlighting advances in system architecture, and momentum around industry collaboration.
Key announcements:
- Fiber efficiency: Reducing fiber count by 50% with Passage L20 near-packaged optics (NPO), enabling 32 x 200G ports in a compact package
- Industry alignment: Founding member of the XPO MSA, advancing NPO standardization
- Qualcomm partnership: Joint solution delivering 16 wavelengths and up to 1.6 Tbps per fiber using DWDM technology
- vClick innovation: Industry-first detachable fiber connector for 3D CPO, optimized for high-volume manufacturing with <1.5 dB insertion loss.
- OCP initiative: New collaboration with leading partners to define system- and rack-level CPO integration
From reducing fiber count and increasing bandwidth per fiber to enabling scalable co-packaged optics, these updates demonstrate how Lightmatter is pushing the boundaries of interconnect bandwidth, efficiency, and scalability for next-generation infrastructure.
