Datacenter cable management and power consumption are becoming increasingly critical for high performance computing (HPC) systems, enterprise server and storage applications. While data center power efficiency has been improved dramatically with multicore processing and open standards, the cabling that connects tens of thousands of servers has not kept pace. Cooling is also a paramount issue, and the industry is in need of low energy, small form factor solutions (SFF) for this escalating problem.
Taking its place alongside traditional copper and optical assembly choices, "active" copper cable is delivering a new high-performance option to the interconnect arena.
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