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13 November 2009

 

Foxconn to make and sell Finisar’s Laserwire 10Gb/s serial interconnect

Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, which makes fiber-optic communications components and subsystems as well as network test & measurement systems, has agreed a strategic partnership in which its Laserwire connectors, adapters and cable assemblies will be manufactured and sold by Taiwanese contract manufacturing services provider Foxconn Technology Group.

Laserwire is a family of 10Gb/s active optical and active copper cables designed to accelerate and support 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server connectivity. Launched by Finisar in November 2007, the extended Laserwire family consists of active cables, a high-density electrical connector and 10G Ethernet adapter modules to facilitate adoption into legacy transceiver ports.

“We have been following Finisar’s progress with Laserwire since its debut and are looking forward to driving 10G Ethernet into LAN on motherboard designs,” says Caesar Chen, Foxconn senior VP of cable R&D.

Picture: Left to right: Brian Sill (Foxconn’s senior director Strategic Alliance), Jerry Rawls (Finisar’s executive chairman), Sidney Lu (Foxconn’s executive VP NWinG), and Jan Meise (Finisar’s director Strategic Marketing).

“Laserwire enables us to provide low-power and low-cost 10GbE connectivity in the data center,” comments Barry Cioe, VP of product management at network equipment maker Enterasys Networks Inc of Andover, MA, USA. “Its flexibility to connect to our XFP and SFP+ ports allows us to offer true plug and play across our entire product portfolio. Adding a second source to Laserwire will help drive the 10GbE ecosystem to adopt active cables into next-generation network architectures,” he adds.

“Foxconn has been a trusted leader in interconnect solutions for a long time and shares our vision of driving low-power, low-cost serial cables into next-generation server connectivity,” says Jan Meise, Finisar’s director of strategic marketing. “I have great confidence in their ability to support customers with the same level of service as Finisar.”

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