Published date: 8 June 2022

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Opportunity (published 8 June 2022, last edited 24 June 2022)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Transceivers - 31711110

Location of contract

B4 7ET

Value of contract

£120,000

Procurement reference

ASTONUNI001-DN615867-66877948

Published date

8 June 2022

Closing date

24 June 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

30 August 2022

Contract end date

29 August 2027

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The project is involved in designing and implementing research in Optical Communications on the basis that correct equipment is purchased. This involves purchasing Network Testers and associated test systems for operation above the threshold of 200Gbit or above to enable pre-FEC and post-FEC BER measurements of advanced 200 Gbit/s and 400 Gbit/s long haul DCO transponders such as.
• 200G/100G CFP4-ACO Analog Coherent Optical Transceiver
• 100G/200G Tunable CFP2-DCO Coherent Transceiver, up to 1000km
• CFP2-DCO 100/200/300/400G Flex Coherent Transceiver
• 400G CFP2-DCO Digital Coherent Optics Transceiver
• 400G Digital Coherent Optics QSFP-DD ZRplus
• QSFP-DD-400G-DCO-ZR
• Coherent QSFP56-DD 400G


About the buyer

Contact name

SHIRLEY O'REILLY

Address

Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
England

Telephone

+44 1212044395

Email

s.a.oreilly@aston.ac.uk

Website

http://www.aston.ac.uk