Meritec announced that it is now now offering quick response, 72 hour turn-around times for customers ordering part numbers in its standard VPX cable product line.
For approximately the past year, the company has been manufacturing a standard VPX cable product line in support of its customer base. The company says its VPX cable system is a flexible interconnect for design, test and deployable solutions, and works to complement TE Connectivity's MultiGig RT range of connectors.
The company says its VPX cabling system allows users to channel data from any slot into any other slot or connector that the customer chooses. The VPX standard was created to meet next-generation needs for high interconnection densities, high-speed operation, and new fabric-based serial switched architectures. Allowing both 3U and 6U configurations, VPX is designed to maximize I/O in a space-efficient fashion.
Lynn Waller Business Unit Manager commented, "We have seen increased demand from our customers needing fast turn-around product, with our VPX cabling system it allows the flexibility to accelerate deployment of these critical systems."
Related: Connector Specifier Editorial Guide: VPX Technology Developments and Standards
The Meritec VPX Plus backplane cable interconnection includes a housing that fits around the backplane connector, and a series of cable end modules that are inserted into the housing. The housing and the modules are used in place of rear transition modules. Such rear transition modules are fundamentally very expensive because of size and complexity, notes the company; and, therefore, are not easily replaced with new designs. Also, backplane circuitry, such as that in rear transition modules, has electrical losses that are greater than cable losses.
The present interconnection, according to Meritec, satisfies a need that exists for a connection method that will allow backplane circuit rerouting with small electrical losses, while allowing the ability to be easily changed without large investment. The Meritec VPX Plus System also satisfies the need for a backplane interconnection that will allow direct cabling between the backplane and the enclosure or between the backplane and an adjacent enclosure. Additionally, it will satisfy the need for a backplane interconnection that allows discrete probing of backplane circuitry by providing access at the backplane position.
The Meritec VPX Plus also allows ultimate flexibility when either cabling daughter-card position to daughter-card position, point-to-point, or when incorporating cable I/O from the backplane. This utility recognized the need for laboratory development experimentation and for ultimately deployable product having certain unique functions.
