GigOptix Inc : GigOptix Now Sampling New 28G Modulator Driver for 40G & 100G Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif. (OTCQX: GGOX), a leading fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high speed information streaming, today announced that it has started sampling its 28Gb/s Mach Zehnder Modulator (MZM) driver designed for 40G and 100G metro and long-haul optical transmitters.

Key features of the GX6262 include:

• Data rate up to 28Gb/s for use in 40G DQPSK and 100G DP-QPSK;
• Low RMS jitter degradation;
• Differential output form 7Vpp;
• Adjustable eye cross point;
• Low power consumption: 2.7W@Vout=7Vpp.

"We developed the GX6262 in close collaboration with our Tier 1 customers to be fully compliant with their specific requirements to ensure that their DQPSK transponders would be successful products," commented Andrea Betti-Berutto, Chief Technology Officer of . "The competitor product burns more power than our GX6262, it requires more real estate on the print circuit board, and is not as cost effective as the GX6262 solution. Since each 40G DQPSK transponder requires two GX6262 drivers these advantages are compounded and therefore, the GX6262 enables customers to implement much more compact and efficient transponder solutions."

Samples of the GX6262 are available for evaluation with an evaluation board. Orders can be placed through [e-mail].

About GigOptix, Inc.

is a leading supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high speed information streaming and address emerging high growth opportunities in the communications, industrial, defense and avionics industries. The Company offers a broad portfolio of high performance MMIC solutions that enable next generation wireless microwave systems up to 90GHz and drivers, TIAs and optical modulators for 40G and 100G fiber-optic telecommunications and data-communications networks. also offers a wide range of digital and mixed-signal ASIC solutions and enables product lifetime extension through its .

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