FIT PIC

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have long been spoken of but the technology has yet to gain widespead industry support. One company that has adopted PICs, building an optical transport platform around its design, is Infinera. Its design use two devices, a 10x10 Gbps transmitter and 10x10 Gbps receiver, implemented using Indium Phosphide technology.

Infinera has just announced a milestone in that its PICs have passed ten million hours of operation in live customer networks without a single failure. PIC technology will only grow in importance over the next several years, given the steady re-emergence of the optical component industry.