Manyresearchinstitutionshave investeda lotofmanpower and resources to developtherelatedtechnologiesandwish todeveloptheir ownopticalinterconnectdevicesandstandards.
"We're excited about the flexibility that these technologies can bring to hardware and how silicon photonics will enable us to interconnect these resources with less concern about their physical placement, " said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and vice president of hardware design at supply chain at Facebook.
These high-penetration levels have put enormous pressure on the electric grid and created considerable doubts about the ability to interconnect more variable resources with the grid safely.