Nice Achronix demo, but how fresh?

At the beginning of the current week (Aug. 30), I took careful note of a brief item in Lightwave about an Achronix demonstration with Opticomp of a 120-Gbit/sec system, expandable to 160 Gbits/sec, based on multiple 40-Gbit channels.  It’s certainly nice to see the 9-FPGA Bridge100 board be put to such heavy lifting when the IEEE 802.3ba standards for 40- and 100-Gbit Ethernet are just gaining traction.  But then I noticed that the Bridge100 demo made its debut at the Advanced Microelectronics and Photonics for Space conference at Lake Tahoe in early June.

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