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"800G Pluggable MSA" aiming for a maximum of 800 Gbps, adopting three modulation methods

"800G Pluggable MSA" formed in September 2019 to "solve network problems of Chinese companies"

This time about the last MSA for 800G, "800G Pluggable MSA". It has more information than ETC (Ethernet Technology Consortium) and QSFP-DD800 MSA, and the specifications for 800G PMD have been released for the time being, so it may be said that it is a little more positive. First, let's introduce based on the presentation at the time of MSA formation.

最大800Gbpsを目指す「800G Pluggable MSA」、3つの変調方式を採用

The 800G Pluggable MSA was formed on September 6, 2019. The initial member companies are Accelink, CTTL (China Telecommunication Technology Labs), H3C, Hisense Broadband, Huawei, Inphi, Luxshare, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Tencent, and Yamaichi Electric.

After that, Baidu, CIG, Fujitsu, and Lumentum joined, and now 14 companies are Promoters, and 26 Contributors, a total of 40 companies, which is a large scale for MSA. The release date at the time of formation is September 10, but this seems to have taken time to translate from Chinese to English, and the original release is September 6.

By the way, this MSA formation presentation on September 6, 2019 was announced at the time of "CIOE (China International Optoelectronics Expo) 2019" held at the Shenzhen Convention Center at that time. As with the first 10 companies, most of them are Chinese companies, so it can be seen that the nature of this MSA is to "provide solutions to the network problems of Chinese companies."

From the photo in the press release. It is a little unusual for the ratio of Orientals to be so high in network-related standards.