POET Technologies Inc. announced a collaboration with MultiLane Inc. to develop next-generation, performance-optimized pluggable 800G, 1.6T and higher speed transceivers using POET's newly designed transmit and receive optical engines. POET and MultiLane will focus on jointly developing pluggable transceivers that will reduce cost and improve power efficiency over existing solutions, and address the increasing need for more scalable hardware components for AI and cloud data center markets. The intent with this collaboration is to design cost-optimized 800G modules that offer superior performance with both the DSP integrated version as well as Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) variants.

The collaboration with MultiLane will significantly shorten the design cycle time for POET's technology and will enable to bring this value to global customers much more quickly. Initial samples of pluggable transceivers from this collaboration are expected to be available in late 2024.