Interesting article in Venturebeat by Bert-Jan Woertman on how Europe and especially The Netherlands is leading the way in the advancement of photonic technology.

EFFECT Photonics, a leading developer of high performance DWDM optical components based on its optical System-on-Chip, today announce the launch of the new company logo.

EFFECT Photonics has grown and developed and as a result of this we have evolved the logo to reflect our journey so far.

Our new evolved logo reflects the following core elements:
• We have retained the warm red and will continue to do so
• The bolder font for the EFFECT logo reflects the evolution and growth of the company
• The horizontal lines of the graphic below the ‘EFFECT’ logo has been simplified
• The fonts have been updated to make it legible for both screen and printing purposes

Over the coming months, EFFECT Photonics will be updating all of its marketing materials, both online and offline, to reflect the new logo. For those who require our new logo and usage guidelines, kindly send an email to: marketing@effectphotonics.com with ‘new logo request’ in the subject header.

About EFFECT Photonics

EFFECT Photonics, a leading developer of high performance DWDM optical components based on its optical System-on-Chip technology. Headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the birthplace of Philips, with additional R&D and manufacturing in South West UK, with sales partners worldwide.

Photonic integration start-up, EFFECT Photonics is launching its first product family based on its optical ‘System-on-Chip’ technology platform which integrates all the active and passive components of a DWDM system within a single chip, without traditional gold box packaging.

EFFECT Photonics’ proposition addresses the soaring demand for affordable bandwidth between Data Centres and back from mobile cell towers by bringing Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing technology to the edges of the network. By using the high integration ‘System-on-Chip’ Technology, port density can be increased by over 6-times and operational expenses reduced by 40% when compared with existing approaches.

The product family includes transceivers for transmission of 100Gbps over 80km at lowest cost and power, together with high density solutions containing many wavelengths for emerging WDM Access markets in fronthaul, backhaul and NGPON2.   Industry standard sockets are supported including CFP and CFP2, meaning the products can be used in existing and future systems.

James Regan, CEO commented “We could see a bandwidth crunch coming at the edges of the network and knew that DWDM could be the answer, but it had to be done differently, so we developed a holistic solution from the ground up. We have completely re-thought how to tackle the issues of cost, power and density.  As well as integrating many optical functions into a single chip, we have reduced the cost and complexity of our packaging resulting in a commercially viable solution.  Regan added “We’re now at the sampling stage which is a very exciting time for us, after all the hard work we’ve put in in the past years”.

Andrew Schmitt, founder and analyst at Cignal Al, said “100 Gbps over 40km to 80km is a significant market opportunity that has no cost effective solution today. This is the next battleground for 100G solutions.”

EFFECT Photonics will be showcasing its new product family at the forthcoming industry event OFC, booth no 2833, taking place in Anaheim, CA, between 20-24 March 2016.

EFFECT Photonics announces the 2020 planned market launch of its new NarroWave – enabled SFP+ modules for plug-and-play remote commissioning and control of telecoms networks. Not only will the tunable transceivers allow customers to commission an entire telecoms network from the central office and monitor critical parameters in the field, but they will do so with no loss in data capacity of the 10G SFP+ Transceivers . Additionally, no hardware upgrades for customers are required.

Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) has proved itself indispensable when it comes to adding capacity to existing networks. Tunability increases that flexibility and simplicity of use even further and reduces operating costs. EFFECT Photonics’ SFP+ transceivers combine tunable DWDM capability in a photonics System-on-Chip integration, a unique combination that simplifies production and testing, and results in enhanced optical transmission and low-energy consumption.

As Director of Product Line Management Joost Verberk explains, “With all the optical components on a single die, you don’t lose any light as you would in with lasers, mirrors and prism connected through air (free space optics). This is a big advantage because generating the laser light requires energy. Our chips transmit light with high efficiency, or low-energy consumption. Basically, we get a lot of light out of the module for the electrons we put in.” That means tunable DWDM capability in a photonics System-on-Chip integration creates further reductions in operating costs and enhanced functionality, as well as performance relative to fixed-wavelength systems built in manual processes from individual components.

Additionally, EFFECT Photonics has created NarroWave technology that can be enabled on all EFFECT Photonics’ tunable SFP+ modules. Now customers will be able to remotely monitor and control their added capacity without diminishing it. According to Verberk, “NarroWave is a means for two of our SFP+ transceiver modules to talk to one another without interfering with our customers’ data channel by essentially creating an auxiliary channel between the two modules. You just plug it in. It can then be tuned manually from the central office or, with an ‘auto-tune’ feature, it can automatically find its way into the network and connect.”

Very few companies produce DWDM SFP+ modules, even fewer produce tunable ones, and EFFECT Photonics is the only one in Europe to do so. In that narrow field, EFFECT Photonics is already establishing itself as an important competitive option for telecoms providers. As the only company in the world that offers remote control and monitoring of System-on-Chip tunable SFP+ modules without loss of data capacity, EFFECT Photonics intends to lead the pack in the global 5G rollout and beyond, interconnecting humanity through fast, affordable, accessible, integrated communication technologies.

About EFFECT Photonics

EFFECT Photonics delivers highly integrated optical communications products based on its Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical System-on-Chip technology. The key enabling technology for DWDM systems is full monolithic integration of all photonic components within a single chip and being able to produce these in volume with high yield at low cost. With this capability, EFFECT Photonics is addressing the need for low cost DWDM solutions driven by the soaring demand for high bandwidth connections between datacenters and back from mobile cell towers. Headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, with additional R&D and manufacturing in South West UK, with sales partners worldwide. www.effectphotonics.com

For further information please contact: sales@effectphotonics.com

EFFECT Photonics’s CEO, James Regan, was delighted to speak to Optics and Photonics News Magazine on an article about: The Post-Brexit Landscape: Photonics Perspectives.

On 24 December 2020, almost literally at the last minute, and more than four years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the U.K. and the EU finally sealed a trade and cooperation agreement to govern their post-Brexit relationship. The agreement’s stakes were high; in 2019, some 43% of Britain’s exports of goods and services went to the EU.

For a while, the final months of negotiation on a new framework to govern that big chunk of trade seemed impossibly snagged on arcane details of fishing rights in U.K. waters and state aid to industries. In the end, though, the December accord—which guarantees tariff-free trade in most goods between the U.K. and the EU—led to deep breaths and a sense of relief on both sides of the Channel.

The immediate aftermath of the agreement, which came into force 1 January 2021, included some well-reported delays and snarl-ups for imports and exports of trade goods, as businesses attempted to grapple with a suddenly “hard” U.K.–EU border and new paperwork requirements. But now, three months in, much of that dust has settled. To get some insight on the accord’s impact for photonics—and, particularly, on the U.K.’s future participation in the new framework program for EU research funding, Horizon Europe—OPN recently talked with several members of the European photonics community.

Politics and reality
Notwithstanding the eleventh-hour post-Brexit agreement in December 2020, one could be forgiven for thinking that relations between the U.K. and the EU have reached something of a low point in the past several months. Tensions have especially flared over the availability of COVID-19 vaccines, and over the complex post-Brexit status of Northern Ireland. There was even an announcement, in February, that a Cold War-style “emergency hotline” would be set up between Brussels and London to handle post-Brexit tensions.

Yet in the wake of the December agreement, these political twists and turns might prove relatively unimportant to the real-world photonics business.

James Regan, EFFECT Photonics CEO explains: “I think it’s important to pick apart government posturing from teams of people actually working on the ground,” says James Regan, the CEO of the Eindhoven, Netherlands–based company EFFECT Photonics, which develops and manufactures on-chip modules for the communications market. “Our governments do what our governments do, but where there are long-standing relationships, those are largely not affected by that … Business is done between people, not between governments.”

A sense of relief
Regan is particularly well positioned to see both sides of the post-Brexit agreement. While headquartered in Eindhoven, EFFECT Photonics also operates a development lab and manufacturing facility in Brixham, Devon, U.K. (The company has a unit in Taiwan as well, and Regan expects that it will branch into other world regions in the future.) From that broad perspective, he says that one of the biggest benefits of the deal is simply putting an end to more than four years of uncertainty since the 2016 Brexit vote.

“It was very frustrating,” Regan observes. “Like all of business, what we wanted was to have clarity … Nobody likes the inability to plan.” Another frustration, he adds, was that “people will often tend to assume the worst-case scenarios,” an orientation that Regan believes can distract from important issues. “At least now we have clarity,” he says. “We understand what the situation is, and we go forward and build around the landscape that we find.”

Continue reading the entire article: https://www.osa-opn.org/home/newsroom/2021/march/the_post-brexit_landscape_photonics_perspectives/

– About EFFECT Photonics –

EFFECT Photonics delivers highly integrated optical communications products based on its Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical System-on-Chip technology. The key enabling technology for DWDM systems is full monolithic integration of all photonic components within a single chip and being able to produce these in volume with high yield at low cost. With this capability, EFFECT Photonics is addressing the need for low cost DWDM solutions driven by the soaring demand for high bandwidth connections between datacenters and back from mobile cell towers. Headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, with additional R&D and manufacturing in South West UK, with sales partners worldwide. www.effectphotonics.com

For more on our technology, visit: https://effectphotonics.com/technology/

– EFFECT Photonics Closes the Acquisition of the Coherent Optical Digital Signal Processing Business from Viasat 

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

EFFECT Photonics, a leading provider of highly integrated optical communication products, today shared that the acquisition of the coherent optical digital signal process business unit from Viasat as announced on March 8, 2022, was closed on April 1, 2022. 

Now that EFFECT Photonics owns the entire coherent technology stack, it will allow the Company to deliver optimized designs that enable the lowest cost and power per bit. The many system performance benefits that come from coherent DSP and FEC will position EFFECT Photonics to drive industry-leading technology innovation which will allow it to deploy coherent solutions into new applications such as data center and access.

Roberto Marcoccia, Chief Development and Strategy Officer at EFFECT Photonics

EFFECT Photonics is also pleased to welcome a team of highly experienced design architects and engineers who will continue with their day-to-day activities under Marcoccia’s leadership. In the coming months, the team will transition to a new location in Cleveland Ohio, which will be the Company’s second location in the U.S. together with the regional headquarters in Maynard, Massachusetts.

This is a very significant step in accelerating our ambitions and to further drive our product portfolio growth. We would like to thank our existing investors and supporters for their continued backing and for making this acquisition possible. In addition, we thank the Viasat teams that worked so closely with us to get this agreement to closing. We look forward to welcoming Viasat to the EFFECT Photonics’ Supervisory Board.

Sophie De Maesschalck, Chief Financial Officer, EFFECT Photonics

This acquisition has clearly positioned EFFECT Photonics as a new highly vertically integrated independent coherent optical module vendor able to provide increased choice, with the ambition to drive coherent technology into new places to further revolutionize the way the world interconnects.

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About EFFECT Photonics

Where Light Meets Digital – EFFECT Photonics delivers highly integrated optical communications products based on its Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical System-on-Chip technology. The key enabling technology for DWDM systems is full monolithic integration of all photonic components within a single chip and being able to produce these in volume with high yield at low cost. With this capability, EFFECT Photonics is addressing the need for affordable DWDM solutions driven by the soaring demand for high bandwidth connections. EFFECT Photonics is headquartered in The Netherlands, with additional facilities in the UK, the US and Taiwan, and a worldwide network of sales partners. http://www.effectphotonics.com Follow EFFECT Photonics on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Copyright © 2022 EFFECT Photonics. All rights reserved. Viasat, the Viasat logo and the Viasat signal are registered trademarks of Viasat, Inc. All other product or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

EFFECT Photonics, a leading developer of high-performance dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical components based on its optical System-on-Chip technology, today announced an investment from PhotonDelta.
EFFECT Photonics has secured €5M in funding to support its growing 5G and data centre business. The funds will be used to further accelerate product development and business scale-up, and thereby strengthens the integrated photonics ecosystem.

EFFECT Photonics’ CEO James Regan says the Internet of Things, virtual reality, and cloud services are growing in popularity every day, increasing the demand for the best service possible. “These applications all depend on the next generation of connectivity, and 5G mobile infrastructure relies on the backing of a world-class optical network enabled by EFFECT Photonics. We are extremely proud that PhotonDelta shows this confidence in us, and are certain that the investment will support our ongoing work to enable this next era of photonics connectivity.”

EFFECT Photonics CTO Boudewijn Docter adds: “At EFFECT Photonics, we integrate all of the optical functions into a single chip and combine it with low-cost, non-hermetic packaging and automatic tuning. Thus DWDM – the proven solution for core and metro networks – is now simple, cost-effective and scalable enough for 5G infrastructure rollouts around the world. This funding allows us to really push forward our next-generation products to bring even more powerful optical systems to the edges of the network”.

PhotonDelta CEO Ewit Roos explains: “EFFECT Photonics is a key player within our ecosystem, a frontrunner that develops and delivers complex integrated optical products in a high-volume global market that demands 5G connectivity now. To this end, we are thrilled to fund EFFECT Photonics in developing their products and scaling up their business. Their products are supported by many other companies in the field of photonic integration services and components. Thus, the business growth of EFFECT Photonics has a profound impact as it leverages the scale of activity and innovation of the entire supply chain of integrated photonics in the Netherlands.”

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About EFFECT Photonics
EFFECT Photonics delivers highly integrated optical communications products based on its Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical System-on-Chip technology. The key enabling technology for DWDM systems is full monolithic integration of all photonic components within a single chip and being able to produce these in volume with high yield at low cost. With this capability, EFFECT Photonics is addressing the need for low cost DWDM solutions driven by the soaring demand for high bandwidth connections between datacenters and back from mobile cell towers. Headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, with additional R&D and manufacturing in South West UK, with sales partners worldwide. www.effectphotonics.com
For further information please contact us:
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About PhotonDelta
PhotonDelta is a growing ecosystem in Europe that covers a network of companies and knowledge institutes that intensively co-operates for the last 25 years in the research, design, development and manufacturing of integrated photonics technologies and components. Mainly focused on the Netherlands, such a collective and long-standing effort has led us to acquire unique competences and assets in the domain of photonics integrated circuits (PICs). Integrated photonics is a key enabling technology to create scalable solutions for societal and technological challenges the world faces today. By working together within a mission-driven ecosystem, we innovate, reduce time-to-market and create economy of scale that benefits us all. PhotonDelta provides access, knowledge, business development and funding to our partners. Our goal is to further establish and grow the integrated photonics ecosystem by 2026. Funding is made possible by substantial financial contributions from our partners as a result of our ‘partnerconvenant PhotonDelta’ and the “RegioDeal Brainport Eindhoven”. www.photondelta.eu
For further information please contact:

Ewit Roos
info@photondelta.eu
+31 85 112 43 37

Following on from announcing the narrow tunable Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) SFP+ optical transceiver using their optical ‘System-on-Chip’ PIC technology, EFFECT Photonics are demonstrating their auto wavelength tuning feature at ECOC 2018 (Rome) in their private customer suite.

The EFFECT Photonics’ DWDM optical transceiver commences a sequence of wavelength tuning to establish a link with a transceiver at the opposite end of the link. This functionality is host-independent as the protocol is implemented within the optical transceiver.
Auto wavelength tuning simplifies network provisioning and deployment, which is especially useful for large-scale roll-outs of existing and next-generation mobile networks. It also significantly reduces the operational expenditure during the deployment of remote PHY network infrastructure.

The development of auto wavelength tuning is a result of customer feedback and the need to streamline the deployment and provisioning of new network infrastructure using tunable technology. This additional feature is also useful for system diagnostics and optimizing the link performance for communications equipment located in different environments.

Features of the system include:
– Compatible with 50/100 GHz and flexible grid spaced networks
– Suitable for 10Gbps and 25Gbps
– Distances of 40km or 80km
– Up to 40 bi-directional channels

To book a private meeting to see EFFECTs auto wavelength tuning feature at ECOC 2018 (Rome) from 25-26 September 2018, send an email to: meeting@effectphotonics.com

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Internet Service Providers around the world are facing the increasing challenges of delivering more services to their data-hungry customers at a faster speed and a lower cost. Dutch High-Tech company launches its photonic integration technology targeted at mobile networks and Data Centers to address this growing demand, fueled by exceptional market growth at a rate of 58% CAGR for Data Centre interconnects and 45% for mobile.

Eindhoven, 18 April 2016. Eindhoven University spin-out, EFFECT Photonics, has recently launched and is sampling its first product family based on its optical ‘System-on-Chip’ photonic integration technology. The successful launch took place in March at a leading global industry trade show, OFC, in Anaheim, USA and generated strong interest with customers, analysts and trade media.

With the existing internet infrastructure unable to support the end-user demand, EFFECT’s photonic integration technology will address the increasing need for optical fiber bandwidth at low cost. With this revolutionary technology, an entire optical system can be integrated into a single chip, the size of a grain of rice, and manufactured cost effectively into a module that fits into the palm of your hand. Another advantage of this technology is its energy efficiency over existing solutions. This significantly reduces energy consumption, contributing to the overall sustainability of the Internet.

EFFECT’s optical ‘System-on-Chip’ technology will extend the edges of the Internet to help deliver high speed broadband to users at home, in the office, and on the move by improving broadband connection speeds and from mobile cell towers into the core of the Internet. The opportunity in this market is forecasted to grow to €30 billion by 2025.

EFFECT’s technology is integrated into a module which can handle many simultaneous data connections, greatly reducing the cost, physical space and power needed per connection. This technology makes it very attractive for Internet Service Providers and will ultimately benefit end-users. EFFECT’s products also support industry standard equipment, which means they can be used in existing and future communication systems.

CTO and founder, Boudewijn Docter commented “The last years have been very exciting; building our company from scratch, forming a great team, raising funds and making the technology ready for mass production. It’s a great adventure and recognizing the positive impact this will have on end-users around the world, makes it even more rewarding!”

Further information:
Email: press@effectphotonics.com

We are proud to announce we’ve been chosen as a finalist for the PIC Awards 2017. The voting process is open until 21st February 2017. The winners will be announced on the 7th March at PIC International Conference in Brussels. We’d love you to vote for us! To do this and for more information visit the PIC Awards website.

Curious to see how we did? Check out the outcome right here!

EFFECT Photonics announces a new, full band tunable optical System-on-Chip to meet the surging demand for inter-connecting Data Centres.  This new optical SoC integrates:

• Extended 40nm C-band fully tunable laser
• Integrated on-chip wavelength measurement and control
• High speed, >32Gbaud Mach-Zehnder modulators

These optical features address the needs of advanced modulation formats and are optimised for the latest electronic ICs. By combining the optical functions in to a single chip, it enables full on-wafer characterisation and to use EFFECTs low cost non-hermetic packaging to reach the ever-decreasing cost points the market is looking for. This design block will also be combined into further, higher-functionality, multi-channel, optical SoCs.

EFFECT Photonics, recently voted winner of the PIC International award for Advances in Photonic Integration, is combining the performance and tunability of indium phosphide with the cost point of full optical integration to deliver transceiver solutions to industry standard module formats which provide savings in operational costs and Capex to Data Centre operators.

CTO, Boudewijn Docter commented, “We are extremely excited about our new optical SoC and EFFECT continues to develop new optical functions which the market is looking for. In addition, we have also combined our low-cost packaging technology to address the need to drive down the costs of optical transceiver modules for the Data Centre and Metro segments.”

EFFECT will be exhibiting at OFC 2017 (stand #1328) which takes place in Los Angeles, USA, between 21-23 March 2017, and running a separate demonstration of its optical SoC technology.

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Further information:
Email: press@effectphotonics.com
See us at stand #1328 at OFC 2017

Only 6 months after the successful launch of its 100Gbps DWDM transceiver product family in March 2016, EFFECT Photonics is now demonstrating the ability to achieve 500Gbps using PAM-4 (4-level Pulse Amplitude Modulation) up to 75km, with its Optical ‘System-on-Chip’ photonic integration technology. This is the result of ongoing collaboration with the Technical University of Eindhoven, with further developments in the pipeline.

With Internet traffic expected to grow at an annual rate of 22-25% until 2020, the majority of this growth is coming from interconnecting Data Centres and in the Metro-Access segments. The need to reduce cost, power, and size continues to be a major driver of product innovation.

EFFECT Photonics is addressing this need with its Optical ‘System-on-Chip’ photonic integration platform by combining all of the optical functions into a single chip, and packaging this with its own low-cost ‘gold-box free’ packaging technology. The optical functions include: multiple DBR lasers, low-voltage drive MZ modulators, AWG, and wavelength monitoring, all within the single chip.

The powerful combination of EFFECT’s Optical ‘System-on-Chip’ photonic integration platform, unique low-cost packaging, and PAM-4 ticks all the boxes, reducing cost, power, and the physical size of the module – all this without the need for more expensive long-haul coherent optical transceivers.

VP Sales and Marketing, Robert Hughes commented “We knew very early on that combining many optical functions into a single ‘System-on-Chip’ offered a real alternative in the industry. This integration together with our novel packaging technology allows us to differentiate ourselves in the DCI and Metro-Access part of the network.”

EFFECT will be at demonstrating its 500Gbps PAM-4 capable TOSA at ECOC 2016, which takes place in Dusseldorf, Germany, between 19-21 September 2016.

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Further information:
Email: press@effectphotonics.com
See us at stand #625 at ECOC 2016

Dutch company enables photonic integration technology for mobile networks and datacentres and revolutionizes density, cost, and power.

EFFECT Photonics today announced that it has closed its Series-A funding to bring its Optical System-on-Chip technology to market to meet the soaring demand for bandwidth in cell towers and between datacentres. The first close of the investment round was led by investment company b-to-v Partners, and included the Brabant Development Agency (BOM) and Optidob. EFFECT Photonics develops and delivers highly integrated optical components based on InP (Indium Phosphide) which is the material of choice for combining efficient laser light sources, waveguides, modulators, amplifiers, and photodiodes used in optical communication systems throughout the world. Using EFFECT Photonics’ System-on-Chip Technology, port density can be increased by over 6-times and operational expenses reduced by 40% when compared with existing approaches.

EFFECT Photonics is a spin out from the prestigious Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) which has been at the forefront of European photonic integration research. EFFECT Photonics, the recent winner of the Invest in Photonics Best Company award combines a team of integration technology innovators and experienced photonics industry veterans with backgrounds in Bookham, Nortel Components, JDSU and Agility.

James Regan, CEO, commented: “Dramatically increasing consumer demand for mobile video is driving a wave of data through cell towers and between datacentres that is expected to rise ten times over the next four years, creating a capacity crunch that only Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) can solve. With our DWDM Optical System-on-Chip and advanced packaging technologies we enable the cost structure network providers need in a competitive market environment.”

Dr. Christian Reitberger, joining the board of the company on behalf of b-to-v Partners, commented: “We are excited to work with the EFFECT Photonics team to deliver on the vision of highly cost effective photonic integration, combining the intellectual capital of Eindhoven and the South West UK know-how clusters. The photonic manufacturing ecosystem has finally evolved to make capital-light photonic hardware companies a reality.”

Miriam Dragstra, Managing Director of BOM Capital added: “We are very pleased to have the opportunity to support EFFECT Photonics as a high-potential photonics start-up in our region, which has established itself as world-leading in the area of Integrated Photonics. Our investment will contribute to increasing that critical mass and its spin-off to the community further.”

For more information about EFFECT Photonics, visit: www.effectphotonics.com.

Source: EFFECT Photonics.

About EFFECT Photonics
EFFECT Photonics B.V. is spin out from the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) and is a leader in the in the design and development of optical components using multichannel Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) in Indium Phosphide for mobile networks and datacentres. Headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the birthplace of Philips, with additional R&D in South West UK and sales partners worldwide. For additional information, visit: www.effectphotonics.com.
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About b-to-v Partners
Based in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany, b-to-v is one of the leading networks of private investors in Europe. The company also acts as an independent investor and invests in start-ups, mid-size companies and special investment opportunities in the areas of Internet&Mobile, Life Sciences and Clean Technologies. b-to-v’s investment philosophy is based on creating sustainable added value for its portfolio companies while leveraging the industry expertise and entrepreneurial know-how stemming from the b-to-v’s network of private investors.

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Lennart Meyer
HOSCHKE & CONSORTEN Public Relations GmbH
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About BOM
The Brabant Development Agency (BOM) promotes business development in a number of ways, with a particular focus on innovative companies and cross-industry initiatives that give the Brabant economy a lasting and competitive edge in a rapidly globalizing world and place the region among the top in Europe in terms of knowledge and innovation. BOM employs themed funds to invest venture capital in concepts with a promising future and encourages other public and private partners to come on board. In addition to venture capital and business development, BOM encourages knowledge-intensive and other foreign companies to establish themselves in Brabant. BOM also revitalizes existing economic potential, primarily by means of overhauling aging commercial sites.

EFFECT Photonics announces sampling of its narrow-band tunable DWDM optical transceivers targeted at Next Generation Mobile Networks.

As the capacity needed in cell towers soars with the latest Cloud RAN architectures, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing is required, delivering 40 or even 80 wavelengths on the fiber. This brings challenges in operational complexity to manage this many part codes from supply chain and deployment to the cell towers. Tunable wavelength lasers can solve this, but traditional full-band tunable modules are too expensive for this application.

Leveraging its optical System-on-Chip technology with advanced photonic integration and low-cost packaging, EFFECT Photonics provides an optimized solution dramatically reducing the number of part-codes at a cost point which meets the needs of Mobile networks.

EFFECT Photonics combines many optical functions within its PIC platform including, tunable lasers, MZI modulators, waveguides, SOAs, photodetectors, along with integrated wavelength locker to simplify the manufacturing process through integration. This coupled with EFFECT’s low-cost packaging enables the ability to scale in volume cost effectively.

CEO James Regan commented, “We are addressing the need for low cost tunability at the edges of the network by integrating the optical functions and simplifying packaging. This approach enables us to support our customers by reducing inventory and sparing costs by more than 90%.”

Recently voted winner of the PIC International award for Advances in Photonic Integration, is combining the performance and tunability of indium phosphide with the cost point of full optical integration to deliver transceiver solutions to industry standard module formats which provide savings in operational costs and Capex to Data Centre operators.

EFFECT Photonics will be exhibiting at ECOC 2017 (stand #549) which takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden, between 18-20 September 2017, and will be running a demo of its optical SoC technology.

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Further information:
Email: press@effectphotonics.com
See us at ECOC 2017 stand #549

Days after EFFECT Photonics announces the sampling of its low-cost narrow-band tunable DWDM SFP+ optical transceivers for Next Generation Mobile Networks, it enters into an agreement with Skylane Optics to supply lineside optical DWDM tunable SFP+ optical transceivers to Telecom operators across Europe, North and South America.

Leveraging its optical System-on-Chip technology by using its high performance photonic integration platform, EFFECT Photonics offers a narrow-band tunable DWDM SFP+ optical transceiver designed for Telecom lineside applications. The costs associated with using EFFECT Photonics narrow-band tunable optical transceiver enables a reduction in sparing and provisioning costs by over 90%.

Skylane CEO, Philippe Bolle commented, “EFFECT Photonics’ narrow-band tunable optical transceiver addresses a need for Telecom operators to reduce their sparing and provisioning costs. In addition it solves the lack of availability of 10G DWDM fixed wavelength EML optical transceivers.”

VP Sales and Marketing, Robert Hughes commented, “We are extremely excited to be working with Skylane Optics to support them with this opportunity.”

Recently voted winner of the PIC International award for Advances in Photonic Integration, is combining the performance and tunability of indium phosphide with the cost point of full optical integration to deliver transceiver solutions to industry standard module formats which provide savings in operational costs and Capex.

EFFECT Photonics is exhibiting at ECOC 2017 (stand #549) which takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden, between 18-20 September 2017, and will be running a demo of its optical SoC technology.

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Further information:
Email: press@effectphotonics.com
See us at ECOC 2017 stand #549