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15 November 2011
Emcore ramps production of 56Gbps FDR active optical cables
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has ramped up to full-scale production of 56Gbps Fourteen Data Rate (FDR) active optical cables (AOCs) for high-performance computing, Ethernet router and switch applications.
The 56Gbps FDR cable is the latest in the Emcore Connects Cables line of high-speed active optical cables produced at the firm’s contract manufacturing facility in China. Emcore is the first manufacturer in full-scale production of 56Gbps FDR AOCs.
Designed for high-performance computers, telecom routers, storage networks, and grid and cloud computing systems, Emcore claims that its 56Gbps FDR active optical cables provide the highest aggregated level of data throughput in a compact, lightweight form factor capable of supporting the bandwidth needs of these advanced systems. Each 56Gbps FDR cable has four 14Gbps lanes in each direction. These lanes support InfiniBand FDR data rates and will also run at lower data rates to support 40, 20 and 10Gbps, as well as 40 Gigabit Ethernet quad small-form-factor pluggable (QSFP) installations.
“Our 40Gbps quad data rate (QDR) cables are currently deployed in two of the top five supercomputers in the world,” says VP of business development Jaime Reloj. “By leveraging our next-generation vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and photodetectors, we will continue to advance the technology for high-performance computing applications,” he adds.
Emcore Connects Cables offer the advantages of optical interconnects for high-performance computing at an affordable price, the firm claims. They reduce the installation and maintenance costs of computer clusters, enabling very large clusters, and are suited to building systems based on any architecture that requires long distances and multiple computer nodes in very dense configurations.
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