100G & 400G TOPICS

Will CS Single-Fiber and Duplex Connectors be Next Trend for Data Center

CS Connector is developed by Senko Advanced Components, and the CS is widely considered to be the best option of the three. This CS Connector design utilizes the tried-and-true standard 1.25mm LC form factor ferrule, but with tighter spacing between the ferrules. With the CS design, pitch is reduced to 3.8mm from the LC standard […]

100G & 400G Data Center TOPICS

What are the reasons a data center might consider installing OM5?

“OM5 offers a longer cabling reach than OM4.” The difference is minimal. For all the current and future multimode IEEE applications including 40GBASE-SR4, 100GBASE-SR4, 200GBASE-SR4, and 400GBASE-SR16, the maximum allowable reach is the same for OM5 as OM4 cabling. Based on application testing recently done with 40G-SWDM4 transceivers, it has been proven that OM4 could […]

Data Center

400 Gbps Data center driven deployments coming in 2017/2018: Heavy Reading

The falling price of 100-Gbps connections within the data center, growth in I/O bandwidth requirements per rack, and a new generation of component technology should combine to drive 400-Gbps optical communications into the field in the 2017/2018 timeframe, says Heavy Reading. The market research firm states in its newly released “400G Components Come Out of […]

100G & 400G Data Center

8-fiber-to-12-fiber conversion cords highlight 40- and 100-G cabling solution

A new 40/100G Fiber Cabling Solutions “that provide a simple economical and fast path from 10 Gigabit to 40G or 100 Gigabit applications, The new products are advanced Fiber Optic Cabling Solutions and “include a variety of equipment cords that allow customers to maintain and fully utilize their existing Plug and Play enclosures and trunks […]