Combined technology cables for HPC

In collaboration with Quellan Inc, Gore hosted demonstrations of "active," Gore Extended Reach Cable Assemblies conforming to industry standard QSFP (4-channel) and SFP+ (2-channel) form-factors and operating at 10Gbps/channel over a 10-meter span of AWG28 copper cable.

These new cables are designed to address numerous next generation protocols such as InfiniBand, Quad Data Rate (QDR), 40GbE, 10GbE and 8G Fibre Channel. The family of new products is constructed with Gore's Advanced Cable Technology and integrates Quellan Q:Active silicon technology.

The complementary effects of the combined technologies reduces link jitter, crosstalk and other signal impairments. These new products will enable a 1RU switch populated with 32 QSFP ports to transport up to 1.280Tbps of data within future clusters. and the cable sssemblies promise to offer link distances of greater than 20m, reduce bundle mass in crowded cable plenums while consuming 5 times less power than fiber optic technology.

"The introduction of this low power signal conditioning technology has allowed us to deploy the next generation of higher speed interconnects without impacting conventional cluster architectures," comments Ed Turkel, manager of product marketing, high-performance computing.

"We're delighted to be a key enabling ingredient in Gore's growing Extended Reach cable portfolio," said Tony Stelliga, Quellan's Chairman and CEO. "We have an exciting array of low-power, Q:Active devices available and in development to support the rapidly evolving data center vision with Gore. Our analog, CMOS technology is particularly well suited to the removal of link impairments while consuming the least amount of power and offering the lowest signal latency available in the industry."

Source: http://www.gore.com/