Product category: Analogue and Mixed Signal ICs
News Release from: Quellan | Subject: Q:Active components
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 31 January 2007
Active technology shrinks
data centre cabling
Quellan has helped Leoni to create the world's smallest gauge active cable for use in today's mega data centres
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Embedding Quellan's Q:Active components in each end of a passive cable boosts signals and reduces noise, yielding a decrease in cable diameter by 70% while increasing cable reach up to three times that of traditional passive cabling. 'The need for extended interconnect reach, reduced weight and latency and increased air flow is of paramount importance to next generation data centres', said Lloyd Dickman, CTO, System Interconnect Group, QLogic.
'Quellan has clearly demonstrated that their active cable collaboration has yielded an innovative family of products to meet this burgeoning market need'.
With passive cables, the propagating data is attenuated and distorted; a problem compounded with higher datarates and smaller gauge cabling.
With Quellan's Q:Active technology embedded inside connectors, the impairments are removed and cabling can now run three- to four-times farther, and operate at one-third the diameter of current cabling options.
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Active cable transforms data centre cable interconnects from passive, nonactive devices to intelligent roadways for use in today's mega data centres
'Our data centre customers have been clamouring for lighter, longer reach, and lower powered interconnects to alleviate the weight and bulk problems associated with today's mega data centres', said Henning Hansen, General Manager of Leoni, North America.
'By activating our advanced cable technology with Q:Active from Quellan, we can solve this problem and revolutionise the industry'.
Mega data centres currently use interconnect conduits that reach 4m in diameter and weigh as much as 3 tonnes.
Q:Active reduces the weight of these conduits to just a fraction of existing deployments.
This results in dramatically increased air flow, lower overall power consumption and greater density in the data centre.
'Today's data centre cabling clusters are exceeding three tons in weight and plugging 10 foot diameter conduits - reducing reliability and blocking critical airflow', said Tony Stelliga, Quellan's CEO.
'Our Q:Active technology will reduce weight and area by two-thirds - yielding a low-cost, lower energy solution to this growing problem'.
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