Molex Incorporated to provide TE Connectivity's STRADA Whisper high-speed backplane connector family under second-source agreement

Network solutions company TE Connectivity (NYSE: TEL) on Thursday announced a second-source agreement under which supplier of interconnection systems Molex Incorporated will have the rights to manufacture, market and sell TE's latest STRADA Whisper high-speed backplane connector family.

TE said its upgraded STRADA Whisper connector provides high-speed backplane interconnects and offers data rate of up to 40 Gbps. The connector has been designed with an in-row horizontal pair orientation, which allows for zero skew and also features an insertion loss less than 1dB and flat past 15 GHz. The STRADA Whisper product family is said to be suitable for high-speed applications such as servers, switches, routers, storage, base stations and optical transport, It will be available in traditional board-to-board, orthogonal and cabled configurations in both 100 and 85 Ohm impedance configurations.