FCI to Feature High-Speed I/O Connections at SuperComputing 2011 Exhibition

Etters, PA, November 02, 2011 --(PR.com)-- FCI, the global leading connector manufacturer, will showcase products for high-performance computing (HPC) and data center applications at Booth #4807, Level 6 during the upcoming SuperComputing 2011 (SC'11) exhibition to be held November 14-17, 2011, in Seattle.

FCI Electronics Division will be highlighting its High-Speed I/O Connections offering - including copper cable assemblies, active optical cables, transceivers, connectors and cages - to accomplish high-speed Infiniband, 10/40/100G Ethernet, Fibre Channel or SAS cable links. The complementary range of high-speed backplane, coplanar, orthogonal midplane, mezzanine and I/O connectors enabling complete, end-to-end link solutions will also be featured.

The featured High-Speed I/O Connections products will include:
· QSFP+ (Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable) connector, cages, copper cable assemblies and active optical cables (AOCs) designed for 4-lane cable interconnect applications demanding 40 Gb/s aggregate bandwidth, such as 40 Gigabit Ethernet or Infiniband QDR
· CXP copper cable assemblies and active optical cables designed for 100 Gigabit Ethernet (10x10Gb/s) or Infiniband QDR 12x links as well as CXP-to-QSFP splitter AOCs
· Mini-SAS HD internal and external connectors, cages and copper cable assemblies to enable 4x to 16x connections among servers and storage arrays at up to 12 Gb/s per channel
· External Mini-SAS connector, cages and copper cable assemblies to enable 4x connections at 3 - 6 Gb/s per channel among servers and external storage enclosures
· SFP+ connector, cages and copper cable assemblies to support server and storage networking applications requiring a single 8 - 10 Gb/s lane for Fibre Channel, Ethernet or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
· SFP+, XFP and SCFF (Small Cubic Form Factor) optical transceiver modules for 10 Gb/s Ethernet and Fibre Channel applications.

For more information on the high-speed I/O product portfolio from FCI, please visit the web at www.fciconnect.com/hsio or contact FCI at 825 Old Trail Road, Etters, PA 17319-7883; call 800-237-2374; or email at electronics.us@fci.com.

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