Molex, a provider of interconnect solutions for telecommunications, data communications, automotive, lighting, military, industrial and consumer electronics, is set to demonstrate 100 Gbps enabling technology in partnership with Gennum and Altera at the OFC/NFOEC being held March 6 to 8, 2012.
The companies will be showcasing the interoperable capability of a 28 Gbps very short reach (VSR) interconnect solution using Molex’s zQSFP+ interconnect system and silicon photonics-based transceiver over singlemode fiber of 2 km in length. The zQSFP+ system consumes low power, and has good electromagnetic interference protection, signal integrity and thermal cooling. It supports next-generation 100 Gbps InfiniBand enhanced data rate and 100 Gbps Ethernet applications.
PRBS31 data at 28.05 Gbps are transmitted in the channel within Altera’s Stratix V GT FPGA. This data is further transmitted with an insertion loss of 12 dB through a Molex zQSFP+ connector, over a Gennum VSR host channel to Gennum clock and data recovery integrated circuits. This retimed output is sent to a Molex 1490nm 4x28G optical transceiver module, which loops back the data. The Altera FPGA has error checkers that verify the transmission. It delivers high system bandwidth at low power consumption and low jitter. The FPGA supports chip-to-chip, chip-to-optical module, backplane through 28 Gbps transceivers.
Gennum’s CDRs facilitate robust operation for 100GBASE-LR4/ER4, OTU4 optical modules and Nx25G active optical cables. They allow wide-open, clean transmit eyes and low-jitter signals for laser drivers in the transmit direction. The jitter is removed in the receive direction. The CDRs contain equalization capability and provide a strong VSR link.
The companies will be demonstrating the solution during the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) Interoperability 2012 – Enabling High-Speed Dynamic Services multi-vendor showcase.
Source: http://www.molex.com/