LPO, short for Linear-drive Pluggable Optics, simplifies the signal processing flow by removing the DSP/CDR chip and adopting linear direct-drive technology, thereby reducing power consumption and latency while retaining the maintenance convenience of traditional pluggable modules. While copper cabling still offers cost and reliability advantages for short-distance connections, it faces the dual challenges of speed bottlenecks and cabling complexity in high-bandwidth, long-distance, and high-energy-efficiency scenarios. To overcome these limitations, a new generation of. Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) are a new optical transceiver technology. This architecture takes advantage of the capabilities in each segment of the link to form a power, cost. FEC (Forward Error Correction), DSP (Digital Signal Processing), CDR (Clock and Data Recovery), DRV (Driver), TIA (Trans-Impedance Amplifier), TOSA (Transmitter Optical Sub-Assembly), and ROSA (Receiver Optical Sub-Assembly). Low latency: Reduces processing and recovery time by eliminating stages.
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