Optoscribe, a Scottish-based manufacture of low-cost, high-volume, glass-based integrated photonics, has opened a new facility to accommodate rapid growth and future expansion plans.
The new 7,400ft2 building includes a Class 1,000 (ISO Class 3) laser processing cleanroom and a Class 10,000 (ISO Class 4) assembly, characterisation, test and assembly cleanroom. In addition, the new facility has ample expansion space to accommodate the company’s aggressive growth plans over the next few years.
According to Nick Psaila, CEO of Optoscribe the growing demand for bandwidth intensive data services together with the proliferation of data-hungry mobile devices and the advent of cloud computing has meant that optical communication networks are under increasing pressure to expand capacity whilst simultaneously reducing energy usage and cost.
This, together with the rapid advance of large data centres as the hub of both vast information storage and big-data computation has pushed forward the widespread adoption of optical interconnect technology to “stitch together” the data centre communication fabric.
“Our new facility provides us with the growing room we need to scale up in line with the growing demand for optical interconnects.”
Formed as a spin-out in 2010 from the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot Watt University, Optoscribe, received investment funding from Archangels, Par Equity and the Scottish Investment Bank in April 2016.
