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Latest Articles & News
Avago ramps production of QSFP+ AOC and transceiver solutions
(Nov 20, 2009)
Avago Technologies showcased its QSFP+ active optical cable (AOC) and transceiver solutions for short range Infiniband and Ethernet applications at this week's Supercomputing 09 show in Portland, OR.
Tyco: Tests show shielded better than unshielded for 10GBase-T
(Nov 20, 2009)
Test laboratory GHMT AG conducted analysis of two U/UTP, one F/UTP, and two S/FTP systems. Tyco says the results show shielded systems offer superior noise performance.
Ethernet Alliance completes initial SFP+ direct attach copper interoperability event
(Nov 19, 2009)
The Ethernet Alliance announced the results of the SFP+ subcommittee plug fest of 10G SFP+ direct attach copper products based on the SFF-8431 industry specification.
Molex announces iPass+ HSC CXP active optical and passive copper cables
(Nov 18, 2009)
The company has introduced its iPass+ High-Speed Channel (HSC) pluggable CXP copper and optical interconnect system, designed to enable 12 channels of 10-Gbps data for up to 120 Gbps of total bandwidth.
At SC09, Finisar demos 120-Gbps CXP to QSFP active breakout cable
(Nov 18, 2009)
Finisar is holding the first public demonstration of a 120-Gbps CXP-to-QSFP active breakout cable at the SuperComputing 2009 (SC09) exhibition in Portland, OR.
Zarlink ultracompact optical engine enables low-power interconnects for green data centers
(Nov 18, 2009)
Zarlink Semiconductor has announced sampling of the Zarlink Optical Engine (ZOE), a scalable-bandwidth multichip carrier for dense, compact array-fiber transceivers.
Juniper demos new 100G physical interface card
(Nov 18, 2009)
Juniper Networks has introduced a new 10-port, 10-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) physical interface card (PIC) for its T1600 Series core router. With the new 10x10GbE PIC and the previously announced 100GbE PIC, the T1600 will support multiple options for 100 Gbps.
Vitesse IC migrates legacy Fibre Channel storage hardware to 8G
(Nov 17, 2009)
The Vitesse says the VSC8238-02 is a CDR [clock and data recovery] device designed to meet the challenges of transmitting and recovering 8G Fibre Channel data in lossy legacy blade server backplanes and host bus adapters (HBA). The device is also backward compatible with 2G and 4G Fibre Channel for legacy backplane data rate upgrades.
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The Cabling Blog
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
Copper theft is rampant!
Found this story -- which, sadly, has become a common one -- lurking near the bottom of my "recent news" pile.From the BBC News in the UK:Gang rips out 1km of phone cableHundreds of people were left without their landline phone service for nearly 48 hours...
Survey says: Data center virtualization an opportunity for cabling
Not long ago CommScope issued a report entitled Innovating in a Time of Change: Investment and Technical Trends in the Data Center. Some of the highlights from that report have been published in the November issue of Cabling Installation and Maintenance....
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