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  • December 11, 2024

    O-Band Optics: A New Market for Optimizing the Cloud

    By Michael Kanellos, Head of Influencer Relations, Marvell

    Data infrastructure needs more: more capacity, speed, efficiency, bandwidth and, ultimately, more data centers. The number of data centers owned by the top four cloud operators has grown by 73% since 20201, while total worldwide data center capacity is expected to double to 79 megawatts (MW) in the near future2.

    Aquila, the industry’s first O-band coherent DSP, marks a new chapter in optical technology. O-band optics lower the power consumption and complexity of optical modules for links ranging from two to 20 kilometers. O-band modules are longer in reach than PAM4-based optical modules used inside data centers and shorter than C-band and L-band coherent modules. They provide users with an optimized solution for the growing number of data center campuses emerging to manage the expected AI data traffic.

    Take a deep dive into our O-band technology with Xi Wang’s blog, O-Band Coherent, An Idea Whose Time is (Nearly) Here, originally published in March, below: 

    O-Band Coherent: An Idea Whose Time Is (Nearly) Here 
    By Xi Wang, Vice President of Product Marketing of Optical Connectivity, Marvell

    Over the last 20 years, data rates for optical technology have climbed 1000x while power per bit has declined by 100x, a stunning trajectory that in many ways paved the way for the cloud, mobile Internet and streaming media.

    AI represents the next inflection point in bandwidth demand. Servers powered by AI accelerators and GPUs have far greater bandwidth needs than typical cloud servers: seven high-end GPUs alone can max out a switch that ordinarily can handle 500 cloud two-processor servers.  Just as important, demand for AI services, and higher-value AI services such as medical imaging or predictive maintenance, will further drive the need for more bandwidth. The AI market alone is expected to reach $407 billion by 2027.

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  • June 21, 2021

    Marvell Shares 5G, Cloud and Data Infrastructure Insights at The Six Five Summit

    By Marvell, PR Team

    Last week, Moor Insights and Futurum Research kicked off The Six Five Summit, a virtual, on demand event focused on the latest developments and trends in digital transformation. Marvell was thrilled to join alongside the world’s leading technology companies to share insights on strategy, innovation and where the industry is heading.

    Marvell’s Raghib Hussain, President, Products and Technologies participated in the event’s Cloud and Infrastructure Day to discuss the evolution of the cloud data center including the shift from application-specific to data-centric compute. In his presentation, “Accelerating the Cloud Data Center Evolution,” Raghib focuses on how scalability, performance and efficiency are driving technology infrastructure requirements and why optimized and customized silicon solutions are the future of the cloud.

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