Intel Photonics for 5G

Delivering Innovation in the Data Center and Beyond
As a leader in silicon photonics, Intel is enabling future data center bandwidth growth and next-generation 5G deployments using smaller form factors and higher speeds, from 100G today to 400G and beyond tomorrow, while providing new platforms for optical integration.

This new technology reduces the total cost of ownership and improves the performance of data center architectures by removing networking bottlenecks that can result in stranded compute capacity. Silicon Photonics helps by:

• Enabling high-bandwidth, software-configurable access to compute and storage
• Permitting Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) deployments to decouple hardware and software resources for disaggregated data centers
  

Wireless networks are evolving quickly as they experience ever-increasing traffic and as they connect to more devices. There is a pressing need for increased bandwidth and range as well as decreased latency and cost, as the industry prepares for the arrival and scaling of 5G networks. In many cases, networks are becoming less centralized and more complex, placing increased demands on the fronthaul network.