Electronics Consortium Backs New Miniature Plastic Fiber Interface
From Molex's web site:
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June 3, 1999—An electronics consortium
consisting of Hitachi Cable, Ltd., Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation,
Toshiba Corporation, and connector makers
Molex Incorporated, SMK Electronics Corporation
and Taiko Denki Co., Ltd. today announced
plans to support a new miniature Plastic Optical
Fiber (POF) interface. The common specifications
will cover the connector, transceiver and
cabling, and the group is already promoting the
concept to various POF-related companies.
Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) is suitable for
high-speed data transmission and offers
advantages of flexibility, high bandwidth and
low cost. POF has been adopted in certain
high-speed digital interfaces such as ATM and
IEEE 1394. In those interfaces, however,
comparatively larger PN-type POF connectors
are used, which has driven the need for a
smaller standard. The interface proposed by the
consortium includes optical fiber connectors
about half the size of the current PN-type. The
smaller overall interface size will help meet the
miniaturization needs of future digital home
applications, and enable more devices to be
connected to one unit.
The new POF interface is targetted for future
high speed requirements such as IEEE 1394,
which are expected to accommodate data
transmission rates up to 1Gbps. The POF
interface is designed to meet these next
generation high-speed needs for faster data
transfer rates, no EMI and easy handling.
The consortium plans to introduce the new POF
interface to industry standard organizations
inside and outside of Japan in order to establish
it as a future global standard.
Editorial Contacts
Louis Marra
Hitachi Cable America, Inc.
Tel: 1-914-993-0990
email: lmarra@hitachi-cable.com
Jim Reilly
Matsushita Electric Corporation of America
Tel: 1-201-392-6067
Fax: 1-201-348-7579
email: reillyj@panasonic.com
Mack Araki
Sony Electronics Inc.
Tel: 1-408-955-5673
email: Mack_Araki@ccmail.sel.sony.com
Kenichi Sugiyama
Toshiba Corporation
Tel: 03-3457-2105
email: kenichi.sugiyama@toshiba.co.jp
Aki Tezuka
Molex Incorporated
Tel: 1-630-969-4550
Fax: 1-630-969-1352
email:atezuka@molex.com
Kory Waragai
SMK Electronics Corporation, USA
Tel: 1-619-216-6400
email: Kory Waragai@smk.usa.com
Ken Yamauchi
Taiko Denki Co., Ltd.
Tel: 1-408-738-6943
email: yamauchi@taiko-e.com
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Very, very interesting. And we know that LUMM has high hopes for its POF!!!!!
Cheers,
Don |
