{"id":2029,"date":"2016-07-15T07:14:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T07:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarluz.com\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2018-02-24T05:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T05:46:47","slug":"introduction-active-optical-cable-aoc-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarluz.com\/ar\/data-center\/introduction-active-optical-cable-aoc-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Active Optical Cable (AOC Cable)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data requirement is tremendous increase in year 2016 to year 2020, thus a high transmission media is required, Active Optical Cables<\/a> (AOCs) could achieve high data transmission over distances, The AOC with electrical inputs as a traditional copper cable, and use optical fiber as transmission media, it is an ideal to streamlined installation for high-performance computing and storage applications with sacrificing compatibility of the existing standard electrical interfaces.<\/p>\n

The following is a picture briefly show the structure of AOC Cable:<\/p>\n

\"AOCThe AOC Cable generally composed \u00a0as follow:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Active connectors are\u00a0QSFP+, complied with SFF-8436 standard, could be hot-swappable in switch, router, etc.<\/li>\n
  2. The system with 4Tx and 4 Rx channels, could transmit data in parallel to reach duplex data transmission.<\/li>\n
  3. The AOC with O-E (Optical-Electronic) and E-O (Electronic – Optical) conversion module.<\/li>\n
  4. The ribbon optical fiber cable (generally yellow cable for SM (single mode) Cable, and Orange or Aqua for Multimode Cable).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Why Use Active Optical Cable (AOC)?<\/strong>
    \n1. Compared to Copper Cables<\/p>\n