Molex to Release QuatroScaleTM Active Optical Interconnect Solution

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As the industry's demand for long-haul, low-power interconnect solutions supporting next-generation 28Gbps products and data center applications grows dramatically, Molex has announced plans to introduce a range of QuatroScaleTM designs for 100, 200 and 400Gbps products. Source optical interconnect solution.

BrentHatfield, Molex Active Optics Product Manager, said: "Market shows that data center interconnect lengths in the United States now exceed 130m on average, while the 25Gbps MMVCSEL solution uses a target length of only 100m. Data center architecture and OEM provider discovery is based on Silicon photonics optical products offer significant advantages in extending distance with excellent low power performance."

The new QuatroScale solution is based on silicon photonic CMOS technology, achieving the longest distance and lowest bit error rate (BER) and the highest reliability of any 28 Gbps product on the market. The QuatroScale TM100GbpszQSFP+ ActiveOpticalCable (AOC) and onboard module solutions operate at power levels down to 1.5W at 100Gbps, but are capable of transmitting distances up to 4km. The low-power QuatroScale AOC provides achievable 1e-18BER performance—accumulated to run more than 3 billion device hours without module failure. The compact QuatroScalezCDTM AOC provides 16 bi-directional channels operating at 28 Gbps data rates, and data rates can be adjusted to up to 400 Gbps bandwidth.

The QuatroScale portfolio offers cost-effective installation solutions with unique performance to meet the market's needs for large distributed HPC data centers. In the summer of 2014, Molex plans to offer the following product samples based on its innovative silicon photonic optical platform:

·100GbpsQSFP28AOC

· 200Gbps midplane optical module (providing 200Gbps or 2x100Gbps port products)

·400GbpsCDFPMSAAOC

Hatfield added: "These upcoming modular QuatroScale solutions add additional economic value, combined with the lowest cost single-mode structured cabling, that Molex offers customers the most economical silicon photonic solution for next-generation data centers. s Choice."