In recent years, the construction of large-scale data centers has promoted and accelerated the application process of 25Gbit/s commercial-grade optical modules. In comparison, 5G fronthaul requires 2.
RealIZM has met Bogdan Sirbu, a researcher at Fraunhofer IZM, to speak about the need for and challenges of co-packaged optics, the technology's readiness, and future developments in datacentres and bey.