Photowave is Lightelligence's contribution to the realm of optical communications, specifically designed for connectivity solutions like PCIe and Compute Express Link (CXL). This optical hardware capitalizes on the inherent low latency and energy-saving attributes of photonics, allowing for extensive scalability across server racks, crucial to modern data centers.
Photowave is a trailblazer, marking the first optical interconnect tailored for CXL setups, providing a remarkable latency of less than 1 nanosecond in Active Optical Cables and slightly more in other configurations. It supports advanced CXL standards and PCIe 5.0 speeds, making it a desirable choice for future-proofing data center infrastructures.
Additionally, Photowave proves advantageous in AI data centers, demonstrating significant throughput improvements in memory-intensive tasks such as large language model applications. Through its robust construction and innovative use of multi-mode fibers, Photowave assures a 2.4x improved performance in memory offloading tasks, offering constant high performance levels not seen in traditional disk-based architectures.
