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FCI Cable Assemblies Meet SFP+ Direct Attach Copper Interoperability Test Requirements - 01/02/2010
FCI announced that its SFP+ (Small Form-factor Pluggable +) copper cable assemblies successfully passed multi-vendor interoperability testing at the SFP+ Direct Attach Copper Plugfest event sponsored by the Ethernet Alliance at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in October 2009. Multiple physical host (PHY), network interface card (NIC), and SFP+ direct attach cable suppliers participated at the plugfest. The test program consisted of three phases: verification of host transmitter output and compliance of each SFP+ cable assembly to the SFF-8431 specification; compliance verification of the receiver input signal with each cable and transmitter combination; and 10 Gigabit Ethernet BER (Bit-Error Rate) transmission tests where each cable was connected between all combinations of PHYs or NICs. “The demonstrated ability of FCI’s direct attach SFP+ copper cable assemblies to meet the compliance and interoperability testing requirements is a significant achievement,” said Jim David, global product manager for High-Speed I/O products. “Users can be confident that our cable assemblies meet SFF-8431 performance requirements and in using FCI cables with equipment from multiple hardware vendors.” FCI’s SFP+ interconnect system consists of connectors, EMI cages and copper cable assemblies that extend serial data rates up to10 Gb/s at the same linear port density as prior SFP systems. FCI offers surface-mount, pick-and-place-compatible SFP+ connectors, single and ganged cage options, as well as passive and activelyequalized copper cable assemblies. All cable assemblies include the EEPROM memory map capability as defined by the applicable SFF specification that allows for cable-to-system communication. The SFP+ system supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 8Gb Fibre Channel (8G FC) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) cable links with system functionality as defined by the SFF-8431 and SFF-8461 specifications. SFP+ interconnects have been successfully deployed in data center, networking and high-performance computing applications To know more about > SFP+