Cisco Serial Cables the end on the light-blue console cable

Now in addition to all the standard Cisco Serial Cables I am carrying around I have added a mini USB cable to the mix. My console cable bag is growing larger, but this is a standard cable that many of us carry with us anyway. Overtime, we may stop carrying the old clunky serial cables with DB-9 and USB to serial converters. I am all in favor of anything that makes the job easier.I am hoping that this new method continues to be spread to other devices. I also hope that Cisco will enable all of the USB Type-A ports on their other devices for similar connectivity. For years I have hauled around two console cable sets. Because I often connect to multiple devices at the same time, such as redundant supervisors on 6500s or to two supervisors in redundant 6500s or VSS, I need two Cisco Serial Cables. Here is a picture of one of my typical USB cables. I use a Keyspan USA-19HS USB to serial adapter.

SDH SFP only product on the market enabling

We will present TransPacket´s unique technology for optical Ethernet transport with extremely low and fixed latency. Learn how to design an optimal network with the TransPacket H1 to satisfy QoS requirements previously only available in TDM-based networks, and at the same time leverage all the benefits of packet based networks. The products offer significant value for applications within mobile infrastructure, energy and utility markets, transport, data centres and trading. The FUSION Networking product H1 is the only product on the market enabling Ethernet end-to-end network transport with the performance known from OTN and legacy SONET/SDH systems: Zero packet loss, low latency, and ultra-low packet delay variation.We're a leading manufacturer of network access equipment for data and Fiber communications. Our wide Cisco SDH SFP Transceiver and reliability decrease after-sale cost; customized product design gives our products the privilege of low cost and strong competitiveness. lines are able to span multiple applications with its excellent technology advantage. We mainly offer ethernet converters, protocol converters, multiplexers, media converters, digital video optical transceivers. Considering partners as the first tier of Inmidas’ customer supports, we provide them all-sided supports to help them explore, occupy the local markets.

monitoring for the converged next generation SDH SFP

FiberStore Multi-rate 2.67Gb/s transceiver modules are compatible with the SONET/SDH and ATM standards, The SDH SFP modules have a fully OC-48 SONET compliant interface between the SONET/SDH photonic layer and the electrical layer.multiple Ethernet channels.Interface card options include the 4x100BaseT Ethernet interface card (1 VCG, 4 Ports 1 Channel), 4x100BaseT Ethernet interface card (4 VCG, 4 Ports 4 Channels) and Gigabit Ethernet interface card options along with Engineering Order Wire is available.

Extending the interconnect reach of MiniSAS Cables

A new line of MiniSAS Cables assemblies comes in the form of high-performance, cost-effective cabling solutions for high-speed serial buses supporting 4X Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) architectures. The copper cables from Tyco Electronics are designed to be fully compliant with 3 Gbit/s SAS and 6 Gbit/s SAS protocols. Target product applications include mass storage systems, storage area networks and switches, servers and routers.We are very proud of our company’s leadership in developing the silicon for new active MiniSAS (External / Internal)  technology that now has culminated in successful interoperability demonstrations of active cable interconnects, said Gourgen Oganessyan, Strategic Marketing Manager and Quellan’s representative at the T10 Physical Working Group. Extending the interconnect reach of 10 meters specified by the current standard by a factor of over two removed a severe limitation in the operation of today’s datacenters, while retaining complete backward compatibility with existing passive interconnects.

The MiniSAS Cables builders using the 6 Gbit/s SAS technology

 10X the length of a 2 meter assive cable.Quellan, Inc., in analog signal processing and RF noise cancellation ICs, announced the availability of a portfolio of 6Gbps SAS products including MiniSAS Cables, active cable modules, based on its production QLx4600 Lane Extender IC. The company has previously validated the performance of the mini-SAS cables activated by its revolutionary Q:Active  analog lane extender technology at several private and public testing events, most recently at the SAS Plugfest conducted on November 10–14, 2008 at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability lab.

Tyco tested its standard External MiniSAS Cable 12M for $199.00 and raised the bar by also testing longer length cables (30 AWG at 5.5m, 28 AWG at 7m and 26 AWG at 8.5m) with 6 Gbit/s SAS signaling speeds—demonstrating its wide breadth of customized cable assembly solutions.
Final test results concluded that no bit errors were detected, which indicates that Tyco MiniSAS Cables perform without dropped data for system builders using the 6 Gbit/s SAS technology. Prior to the event, internal S-parameter and near-end-crosstalk tests were conducted on the cable assemblies to meet the requirements for 6 Gbit/s SAS specifications.

QSFP+ port cages for systems and adapters

 Molex's QSFP+ transceiver can replace up to 4 standard SFP+ transceivers. The result is greater port density and overall system cost savings over traditional SFP+ products. Molex's QSFP+ cable assemblies are designed to accommodate stacked and ganged connector configurations in extremely high-density requirements. This system will support 10G Ethernet, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, SAS and SONET/SDH standards with different data rate options.Molex’s low-power AOC integrated cable solutions provide less expensive, reliable transport for aggregated data rates up to 40 Gbps.
 Mellanox’s solution is being offered in three different options: one QSFP port, six QSFP ports, six QSFP-H40G-​CU3M – Compatible Cisco 40GbE QSFP+ QDR Direct-Att​ach Copper Cable 3ml ports with light pipes. The QSFP+ cages are designed for different markets and applications including hubs, switching, routers and adapters. The Mellanox QSFP+ cages are part of the end-to-end solution that Mellanox offers, allowing you create the optimal system using the Mellanox Silicon IC device and building the best planned data centers with Mellanox Cables and Modules and Mellanox systems and Adapters. The QSFP+ DAC / AOC / Transceivers port cages are being offered in three different options: one single QSFP+ cage, line of six port cages with and without light pipes.

SFP+ Cables significantly reduce power consumption

Mellanox SFP+ passive copper cables are 10Gb/s cables assembly. The cables are compliant with SFF-8431 specifications and provide onnectivity between devices using SFP+ ports. The cables use state-of-the-art signal processing technology to fill the expanding need for cost effective data center interconnects. Mellanox unique quality passive copper cable solutions provide power-efficient
replacement for active power connectivity such as fiber optic cables. Optimizing systems to operate with Mellanox’s 10GbE SFP+ Cables significantly reduce power consumption. Rigorous cable production testing ensures best out-of-the-box installation experience, performance and durability. The Mellanox Passive Copper 10Gb/s SFP+ Cables include a 1-year imited hardware warranty, which covers repair or replacement.The TE Connectivity (TE) SFP+ product family extends the use of the Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) interconnect up to 10 Gbps. This system meets the performance requirements of SFF (Small Form-Factor) specification SFF-8431 and supports 8G Fiber Channel, 10G Ethernet, InfiniBand? standard and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) applications.

SFP+ Transceivers compared with former 10G transceivers

The D-Link 10GBASE SFP+ Transceivers offer customers a wide variety of 10Gbps Ethernet connectivity option for data center, enterprise wiring closet, and service provider transport applications. Compared with existing 10G XFP, 10G SFP+ is with smaller form factor, with lower cost, lower power dissipation, and allows higher port density.The DEM-432XT-DD is a 10GBASE-LR high performance 1310nm Single-Mode SFP+ transceiver with Digital Diagnostics Monitoring (DDM) support. It supports full duplex, 10Gigabit speeds on Single-Mode fiber for distances of up to 10Km. DDM allows Real time monitoring of critical device parameters including: bias current, transmit & receive power, temperature, and voltage. The DEM-432XT-DD is hot pluggable and is backed by a standard 2-year product warranty and free technical support.

We do provide a good selection of 10G SFP+ cables

Designed for short length, high speed interconnects, this low power, low latency Twinax cable is a cost-effective alternative to fiber optic cable assemblies and is intended for short distance applications such as point-to-point in-rack and across rack network switch/server connections.Backed by our 2-year warranty, this 10Gtek's 10G SFP+ cables is compliant with MSA (Multi-Source Agreement) standards, making it a reliable replacement SFP-H10GB-CU5M cable.The PCIe2 2-port 10GbE SFP+ copper adapter is a generation-2 PCIe adapter that provides two 10 Gb copper small form-factor pluggable transceiver (SFP+) ports for connectivity with other servers or switches in the network.

40G QSFP+ port of a Cisco switch

The Cisco 40GBASE-CSR4 QSFP+ Module is similar to the 40GBASE-SR4 interface extends supported link lengths to 300m and 400m respectively on laser-optimized OM3 and OM4 multimode fiber cables. Each 10-gigabit lane of this module is compliant to IEEE 10GBASE-SR specifications. This module can be used for native 40G optical links over 12-fiber ribbon cables with MPO/MTP connectors, or in 4x10G mode with ribbon to duplex fiber breakout cables for connectivity to four 10GBASE-SR interfaces. Maximum channel insertion loss allowed is respectively 2.6dB over 300m of OM3 cable or 2.9dB over 400m of OM4 cable.isco QSFP+ to four SFP+ copper direct-attach breakout cables (Figure 3) are suitable for very short distances and offer a highly cost-effective way to connect within racks and across adjacent racks. These breakout cables connect to a 40G QSFP+ cable port of a Cisco switch on one end and to four 10G SFP+ ports of a Cisco switch on the other end. Cisco QSFP-H40G-​CU3M – Compatible Cisco 40GbE QSFP+ QDR Direct-Att​ach Copper Cable 3ml currently offers passive cables in lengths of 1, 3 and 5 meters, and active cables in lengths of 7 and 10 meters.

Valiant's Ethernet over SDH SFP modules

FiberStore Multi-rate 2.67Gb/s transceiver modules are compatible with the SONET/SDH and ATM standards, The SDH SFP modules have a fully OC-48 SONET compliant interface between the SONET/SDH photonic layer and the electrical layer. These SONET/SDH SFP transceivers provide multi-rate capabilities and can be used from OC-3/STM-1(155 Mb/s) up to 2.67Gb/s, such as OC-3/STM-1 (155 Mbps), OC-12/STM-4 (622 Mbps), and OC-48/STM-16 (2,488 Gbps) data rates applications.A full range of SFP fibre optic transceivers for SONET/SDH applications up to 2.7Gb/s. Incorporating an LC duplex interface, this range of transceivers is designed to operate on all types of multimode and singlemode fibre in accordance with ISO11801.

SFP+ Passive DAC Cable Assemblies Panduit 10Gig

As virtualization, consolidation, and convergence initiatives continue to expand in Data Centers, so do the demands placed on the physical infrastructure. To meet the needs for higher bandwidth along with lower power interconnects, Panduit offers 10Gig SFP+ Passive DAC Cable Assemblies. This high speed data transport capability is ideal as server virtualization becomes more prevalent. 10Gig
interconnects are needed to facilitate effective server utilization to run multiple virtual machines as well as server consolidation. By incorporating 10Gig SFP+ Copper Cable Assemblies into the physical
infrastructure, organizations can achieve 10Gig performance without additional signal processing or conversion.

This provides an ideal low power, low latency 10 Gbps server interconnect option for top of rack switching deployments. Passive 10Gig SFP+ Copper Cable Assemblies generally have a reach limitation of 7 meters (23 feet), and many network deployments will consist of a mixed copper/fiber solution with Panduit 10Gig OM3 fiber. Panduit 10Gig? SFP+ Passive DAC Cable Assemblies Panduit 10Gig? SFP+ Copper Cable Assemblies are factory terminated and constructed of high-speed twin-axial SFP-H10GB-​CU1M – Compatible Cisco SFP+ cable, SFP+ DAC Twinax cable 1 Meter shielded cable with SFP+ modular connectors on each end. The cables are compliant to the SFF-8431 specification.