MASSTART aims to provide a holistic transformation to the assembly and characterization of high speed photonic transceivers towards bringing the cost down to €1/Gb/s or even lower in mass production. This will guarantee European leadership in the Photonics industry for the next decade. MASSTART will surpass the cost metric threshold by using enhanced and scalable techniques... [Read more]

NEWS & EVENTS

MASSTART-project presents current trends at ECOC 2021 in Bordeaux

The ECOC Exhibition is the key meeting place for everyone in the fiber optic communication technology industry. From September 13-15, 2021, companies and research institutions will showcase the latest developments and innovative products from this realm in Bordeaux, France. The H2020 MASSTART project, led by Fraunhofer IZM, is one of the exhibitors at ECOC 2021. MASSTART intends to establish a new assembly and test paradigm for next generation 800G and 1.6T transceivers, including on-board configuration, using robust, low-cost, and high-throughput […]

Data Center Interconnects – Towards Mass Manufacturing

H2020-MASSTART Project has proudly contributed to the Photonics Days Berlin Brandenburg 2020 organized by OpTecBB with a dedicated Conference Session on Data Center Interconnects – Towards Mass Manufacturing, Tue., 6th October 2020, chaired by Benjamin Wohlfeil (ADVA) & Paraskevas Bakopoulos (Mellanox Technologies / NVIDIA).

Session on “Data Center Interconnects”
at Photonics Days Berlin Brandenburg

In order to bring the costs down to €1/Gb/s or even lower in mass production, a holistic transformation to the assembly and characterization of high-speed photonic transceivers is required. https://photonics-days-berlin-brandenburg-2020.b2match.io/agenda?session=62260 Take part in this year’s virtual conference session and find more information on the Photonic Days Berlin Brandenburg 2020 (October 5 – 8): Photonics are at the heart of many other innovations. Without photonics there are no computers, no internet, no cloud as we know it. Without photonics industry 4.0 […]

What´s MASSTART?

Get a first look of the MASSTART transceiver in the new video

2nd MASSTART-Meeting at Fraunhofer IZM

While all project partners of MASSTART had their second Project Meeting, they produced individiual statements and answered the following questions

Welcome to our brand new website!

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website! Our aim was to offers our viewers a user-friendly, easy to navigate new platform, allowing members and visitors to comfortably browse for information on technological news and event information that MASSTART can provide The streamlined user interface provides a more interactive experience, allowing our colleagues and partners to easily find the information they are looking for. We hope that you enjoy the fresh look and feel of our updated […]

MASSTART Kick-off meeting in Berlin

MASSTART held its kick-off meeting on the 10th & 11th of January 2019 in the premises of the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (Fraunhofer IZM), in Berlin, Germany. This European research project, led by Fraunhofer IZM, aims to provide a holistic transformation to the assembly and characterization of high speed photonic transceivers for Terabit/s era towards bringing the cost down to €1/Gb/s or even lower in mass production. A total of 22 participants from the 11 partners of the […]

MASSTART Project official start

MASSTART started on the 1st of January 2019 as one of the fourteen new launched #Photonics projects in framework of European Commission ’s #H2020, Photonics21, @PhotonicsEU. Partners are CEA-LETI , ADVA Optical Networking, Mellanox Technologies, ficonTEC Service GmbH, Teem Photonics, BRIGHT integrated Photonics, ALMAE TECHNOLOGIES, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), DustPhotonics Inc., Tektronix. #MASSTART will focus on MASS manufacturing of TrAnsceiveRs for Terabit/s era.