The company has introduced a line of SFP+ copper cable assemblies developed as a lower-power alternative to optical cables for short reach links in high-speed interconnect applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), enterprise networking and network storage systems.

VSC8248 has four clock and data recovery channels with integrated electronic dispersion compensation.

A 40-Gbit/sec active optical cable expands Siemon's data center solution and service offerings.

The company says the cables are specifically designed to improve the overall performance of fiber networks by significantly reducing system attenuation, which can lead to system unreliability and downtime.

Phyworks says its PHY2210 equalizing cable transceiver enables cable manufacturers to extend the reach and reduce the gauge of active copper cable assemblies supporting all standard data rates 1 to 10.5 Gbps. The transceiver provides a single design platform for multiple protocols, suiting SFP+ active copper cables, Infiniband cables, 6.25G backplanes, Fibre Channel (1G, 2G, 4G and 8G) and Ethernet (1G, 10G) networks.

The IBD Brand Cleaner ODC reduces cleaning costs to less than 25 cents per cleaning, its manufacturer says.

The reduced-diameter MRJ21 system is about as thick as a No. 2 pencil and weighs 40 percent less than comparable four-pair systems, its manufacturer says.

Voltaire Ltd. has introduced a 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch with a built-in, low latency Ethernet gateway for seamlessly bridging traffic to and from Ethernet-based networks.

Mellanox says its ConnectX-2 EN maximizes HP system performance and flexibility with 10 Gigabit Ethernet latency, power and virtualization performance.

Avago Technologies has further expanded its family of SFP+ optical transceiver modules for 10-Gbps Ethernet equipment designs. The new SFP+ transceiver series include the 10/1-Gbps dual-rate AFCT-701SDDZ 10GBase-Long Range (LR) singlemode and AFBR-703SDDZ 10GBase-Short Range (SR) multimode fiber transceivers for use in enterprise and data center applications.