Mellanox launches LinkX 200G & 400G cables & transceivers at CIOE and ECOC

Mellanox Technologies Ltd of Sunnyvale, CA, USA and Yokneam, Israel (a supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect solutions for servers, storage systems and hyper-converged infrastructure) has announced new 400G DR4 500m transceivers and 400G direct attach copper (DAC) splitters and 100G SFP-DD DAC cables for server/storage interconnects. In addition, new 200G ‘active’ DAC cables for HDR InfiniBand and 200GbE Ethernet were introduced to extend copper cable reach up to 4m. Lastly, new QSA56 port adapters enable single-channel SFP cables and transceivers to be connected to 200G switch or network adapter ports. QSA56 supports cables and transceivers from 0.5m to 10km.

Mellanox is demonstrating these LinkX products as well as showcasing the full line of 100/200/400G cables and transceivers in booth 1A22-1 (Hall 1) at the China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE 2019) in Shenzhen, China (4 September) and in booth 53 (Hall 1) at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2019) in Dublin, Ireland (21 September).

“We’ve had tremendous adoption of our full line of LinkX 25/50/100G cables and transceivers with web-scale, cloud computing, and OEM customers in China and worldwide,” says Steen Gundersen, vice president LinkX interconnects, Mellanox. “We are just at the beginning of the transition to 200G, and 400G will soon follow. Customers select Mellanox because of our expertise in high-speed interconnects, our capacity to ship in volume, and the high quality of our products,” he adds.

All Mellanox cables and transceivers are designed for very low bit error ratios (BER) of 1E-15 (about 1000 times better than the IEEE industry standard). Error-free connectivity for both Ethernet and InfiniBand is particularly important for latency-sensitive applications such as high-performance computing (HPC) networking, storage, artificial intelligence and hyperscale computing.

At ECOC, together with Ixia (A Keysight Business) using its A400GE-QDD test system and Mellanox 400G DR4 and 200G SR4 transceivers, a live demonstration will exhibit better than IEEE-specified FEC (forward error correction) error density and BER performance.

“Ixia is pleased to continue working closely with Mellanox for ECOC live demonstration of interconnect solutions such as 400G DR4 QSFP-DD and 200G QSFP56 products,” says Nelson Murga, senior systems architect at Ixia Solutions Group, Keysight Technologies. “Using both Ethernet and PRBS signals over Mellanox’s interconnects with our test system validates performance that exceeds the requirements of the 400GbE and 200GbE standards.”

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