Marvel 1.6T Optical DSP Platform Won LEAP Award
Design World recently announced the winners of the 2026 LEAP (Engineering Achievement Leadership) Award, with the Marvel 1.6T optical DSP platform combination winning in the connectivity category. Marvel stated that the company has decades of expertise in the field of optical DSP and pioneered the 1.6T era. The award-winning product portfolio was released earlier this year, covering Ara T, Ara X, Aquila M, and Petra.
Four products covering different applications
Ara T is the first 8x200G Transmission Re Timing Optical (TRO) DSP designed for high bandwidth medium distance links ranging from 5 to 500 meters. It can reduce the power consumption of optical modules by over 35%, thereby lowering the overall cost of ownership for network deployment. Ara X is the first 1.6T DSP with advanced link reliability capabilities, enabling customers to achieve higher resilience in optical networks. Petra is the first 3nm 8x100G to 4x200G transmission that achieves high energy efficiency and unlocks new, more flexible infrastructure designs. Aquila M is the first coherent optical DSP optimized for O-band and integrated with Media Access Control Security (MACsec), adding critical built-in security to the next generation of optical links; This product is built upon Marvel’s expertise in coherent reduction DSP and the original Aquila coherent reduction DSP for scale across applications.
The Ara series has previously won multiple awards
Ara T and Ara X extend the award-winning original Ara product, the latter being the industry’s first 3nm, 1.6T PAM4 optical DSP. Earlier this year, Ara was named the Interconnect Product of the Year by Electronic Products and received the Leading EDGE Outstanding Design Innovation Award. Marvel stated that these four latest products collectively highlight its leadership position in the 1.6T innovation field. Marvel provides the industry’s widest portfolio of end-to-end connectivity platform solutions for scale up, scale out, and scale across AI infrastructure.