Finisar Introduces Industry's First 150 Gbps Parallel Active Optical Cable
Based on the Industry-Standard CXP Form Factor, Finisar's High-Performance Active Cable Enhances Computing Connectivity in High-Speed Applications
Press Release
Source: Finisar
On Monday June 22, 2009, 4:30 pm EDT
Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR), a technology leader in fiber optic solutions for high-speed networks, today introduced C.wire(TM), a 150 gigabit per second (Gbps) optical link for storage, data center, and high-performance computing connectivity. Based on the CXP form factor, the C.wire active optical cable (AOC) utilizes fiber optic technology to transmit parallel high-speed data in 100+ Gbps applications such as InfiniBand, 100G Ethernet, and proprietary high-speed interconnections. Finisar will demonstrate this new active cable at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'09) in Hamburg, Germany, June 22-24, 2009 at booth #612.
With the increase in I/O bandwidth required by next generation CPUs, protocols such as InfiniBand and Ethernet need very high speed connectivity solutions for next-generation data center architectures. Aggregation Switches, Stacked Switches and Meshed Network Topologies need to deploy cabling solutions which are beyond the bandwidth and distance limitations available in copper.
C.wire provides the smallest footprint of any cable solution available today for applications requiring data throughput of 100Gbps and beyond. It transmits parallel 12x12.5 Gbps data bi-directionally over a multimode fiber (MMF) ribbon cable. Its superior low-power, small bend radius and high-density (Gb/s per mm?) make it the ideal connectivity solution for growing data centers and HPC clusters...
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