InterBOARD® OMC Active Optical Cable

The Optical Media Converter (OMC) Active Optical Cable provides full-duplex four-channel electrical-electrical connectivity over distances up to 300 meters using multimode optical fiber.
The OMC Active Optical Cable offers direct connectivity with 10 Gigabit Ethernet CX4 (XAUI), DDR/SDR/QDR Infiniband™, 4 x OC-48 SONET, multi-lane PCI Express, 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel, as well as proprietary backplane interconnections.

Employing Reflex Photonics’ next generation LightABLE™ packaging technology, the OMC Active Optical Cables enable extremely high feature-integration and functionality, designed to meet the harshest external operating conditions including temperature, humidity and EMI interference.

By using media detection circuitry at the host board’s connector, one can swap between the OMC and standard electrical cabling, offering ultimate flexibility at no additional cost.

Highlights:

• 4 independent channels per direction
  
• 3.125 Gbps per channel x 4 channels
  
• Hot-pluggable electrical interface
  
• Low power consumption (1 Watt)
  
• Employing proven LightABLE™ encapsulated optical sub-assembly technology
  
• 0 to 70 Celsius operating temperature
  

Applications

• High-performance computing, Datacom, Telecom and Server data links for:
  
  • Board to board interconnects
    
  • Rack to rack interconnects
    
  • System to system interconnects
    
• High-performance proprietary Backplanes
  
• 4 independent channels for high-speed data communication standards:
  
  • Infiniband™ - 4x SDR/DDR/QDR
  • SONET/SDH
  • 10 & 40 Gigabit Ethernet (XAUI)
  • 2, 4, 8, 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel
  • PCI Express 4x
    

InterBOARD® OMC Active Optical Cable - Product Brief