Co-Packaged Optics Coverage from CIR

Coverage of co-packaged optics technologies, standards, suppliers and markets from CIR. Our reports, forecasts and market briefs provide clients with actionable analysis of opportunities and future possibilities in this growing segment.

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Market Studies

Detailed Analysis of Co-Packaged Optics Market Opportunities

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Market Forecasts, Shipments, Volumes, Values

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Research Briefs

Focused Analysis and Insights on Key CPO Topics

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Advisory

Ongoing Engagements to Discuss Strategic, Tactical and Operational

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CPO Cover

CIR’s on-going market coverage of co-packaged optics is delivered via this program.  Subscribers receive monthly market briefs analyzing the current hot topics in CPO that are of key interest and relevant to moving the technology and its adoption forward.  This service is available as a stand-alone program or available as part of CIR’s Annual Co-Packaged Optics Subscription Program.

Focus Areas:

  • Product and technology announcements
  • Vendor activities
  • Investments
  • Applications/demand factors (AI, VR, Metaverse, Enterprise etc)
  • User activities
  • MSAs and standards
  • Materials trends

Research Director

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Lawrence Gasman is the President of CIR, a technology forecasting company that he created in 1978 and which has been providing guidance and forecasts for the enterprise computing, telecommunications and optical components sectors since 1985. He has been widely quoted by industry publications for many years and has written numerous articles and four books on technology and technology policy.

Mr. Gasman has spoken at many conferences including OFC. Mr. Gasman holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Manchester and advanced degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the London Business School.

Thinking on Co-Packaged Optics

The Need for CPO in the Latency-sensitive Data Center

Evolution of CPO in 2021 and Early 2022 Co-packaged optics (CPO) has emerged as technology of considerable interest as a platform for deploying optics in large data centers. A considerable segment of data communications sees CPO as a practical way forward to deploy 800G and above interfaces.  It is recognized ...

The Drivers and Timeframe for CPO Deployment

The demand for co-packaged optics (CPO) will be driven by many factors.  Today, latency-sensitive traffic such as AI and ML is getting a lot of attention.  However, this is mostly because AI and ML is new and exciting, while video is old hat.  Nonetheless, CIR believes that the video revolution ...

Co-packaged Optics Standards Moves CPO Forward

Co-packaged Optics standards activity have moved CPO from the realm of discussion closer to real-world adoption: (1) COBO has established a CPO working group. (2) CPO specifications have materialized in the form of the CPO Collaboration Joint Development Forum’s CPO Module product requirements document (PRD). And (3) there is an ...
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