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Plug and play system
Infrastructure specialist Siemon has
expanded its LightHouse
®
advanced fiber
cabling solutions with a comprehensive
Base 8 plug and play system of fiber
enclosures, modules, adapters, assemblies
and jumpers.
Current 40Gb (40GBASE-SR4) and 100Gb
(100GBASE-SR4) per second multimode
fiber applications, deployed for backbone
switch-to-switch links in the data center, are
based on eight optical fibers with four fibers
transmitting and four receiving at either
10Gb or 25Gb per second.
When using 12-fiber MPO/MTP solutions for
these 8-fiber applications, 33 percent of
the optical fiber is unused.While conversion
cords or modules can be used to enable
100 percent fiber utilization, these solutions
add cost and complexity, and increase
insertion loss.
Siemon’s new Base 8 system is designed
to enable 100 percent fiber utilization,
eliminating the need for conversion cords
or modules while providing a complete
end-to-end Base 8 fiber system to support
current and future eight-fiber applications.
“With current and future fiber applications
all dominated by fiber counts that are
divisible by two or eight fibers, including 200
and 400Gb per second over multimode
and singlemode that are currently in
development, using a Base 8 plug and play
system offers the simplest, most efficient
migration to advanced fiber speeds in the
data center,” said Alberto Zucchinali, EMEA
data center solutions and services manager
for Siemon.
Cables for testing times
Pasternack has released four new 1mm
flexible cables, operating up to 110GHz,
designed to deliver precision results
for vector network analyzer (VNA),
semiconductor probe, automotive radar
and military radar testing. The cables
are suitable for applications such as test
benches, radar, microwave radio and
millimeter wave radio.
Pasternack’s new VNA test cables deliver
precise results using a coaxial cable and
1mm stainless steel connector interfaces.
The coaxial test cable is covered by a non-
conductive Nomex
®
outer sleeve. This light
armoring protects the 0.27 inch diameter
cable and improves stability during flexure.
The cables feature 50 Ohm impedance,
a maximum VSWR of 1.5:1 and excellent
phase/amplitude stability under flexure.
The cables will operate over a temperature
range from –65°C to +125°C. The vector
network analyzer cables are RoHS and
REACH compliant, plus the cable assembly
is fully tested and comes with serialized test
data. The cables are available in standard
6 and 12 inch lengths with male-to-male or
male-to-female configurations.
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The new cables from Pasternack
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