- Supports 40 GB/s and 100 GB/s up to 100 m over Siemon XGLO OM3 multimode fiber optic and MTP connectivity products in short-haul mode
- Supports 40 GB/s and 100 GB/s up to 150 m over Siemon XGLO OM4 multimode fiber optic and MTP connectivity products in short-haul mode
- Supports 40 GB/s and 100 GB/s up to 10 km over Siemon XGLO single-mode fiber optic and LC connectivity products in long-haul mode
- Supports 100 GB/s up to 40 km over Siemon XGLO single-mode fiber optic and LC connectivity products in long-haul mode
- Supports 40 GB/s up to 5 m over Siemon QSFP+ high-speed copper passive cross-link groups.
- Supports 40 GB/s up to 4 km over Siemon Moray QSFP+ active optical cable interconnect groups.
“Siemon has always been at the forefront with its twisted-pair and fiber optic cabling solutions. Our new high-speed interconnect technology supports Ethernet deployments across a wide range of data center configurations,” explains John Siemon, Chief Technology Officer of The Siemon Company. “The decision to develop high-speed interconnect solutions was based on global market trends and technical studies that clearly demonstrated the growing acceptance of direct connections between servers and switches located in the same or adjacent racks. By expanding our product family, we can support both traditional structured cabling and factory-preconfigured, unified architecture deployments to meet our customers’ data center needs.”
While current copper deployments supporting 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps are limited to short-length axial twin cable bundles, this emerging technology is anticipated to lead advancements related to compatibility with next-generation Ethernet applications over twisted-pair cabling.
“Unfortunately, some manufacturers are taking advantage of the lack of information regarding the IEEE 802.3ba standard by claiming compatibility with 40 Gbps applications using twisted-pair cabling,” says Robert Carlson, vice president of Global Marketing at Siemon. “Without an expression of interest from the IEEE, claims about application compatibility cannot be verified. Such claims are misleading.”
Until targets are adopted for a new Ethernet project, the only way to differentiate performance capabilities among manufacturers is to evaluate the capabilities of published standards and select products with stable transmission performance across wide bandwidths.
Based on its industry-leading throughput and bandwidth capabilities, Carlson notes that Siemon’s TERA Category 7A cabling system is ideally positioned to support applications beyond 10GBASE-T. TERA systems offer performance up to at least 1.2 GHz, guarantee transmission headroom to improve signal-to-noise ratio, and have been deployed worldwide for more than a decade.
