Mysticom Semiconductor and The Siemon Company have announced that testing of Siemon's Category 7/class F TERA cabling system with Mysticom's MY3124 XAUI Retiming Transceiver has extended the transmission distance of 10 Gigabit Ethernet for data center applications from 15 meters to 25 meters.
The MY3124 chip and TERA cable assembly is designed to nearly double the distance supported by current Infiniband twinax copper solutions at approximately half the cost.
The real time interoperability test included two MY3124, 10G XAUI-XAUI Retiming Transceivers operating over Category 7/class F TERA cable assemblies achieving a post code BER of 10-16 for the entire duration of the 72-hour test simulating a network environment. This BER level was obtained using the most stringent IEEE approved 10 Gigabit Ethernet Standard Continuous Jitter Pattern Test.
"The increase in bandwidth and storage have created a need for cost effective multi-gigabit uplinks and interconnects in the enterprise and the data center," says Wiren Perera, Mysticom's vice president of marketing. "Working with Siemon has allowed us to extend the reach of 10 Gigabit on standards-based twisted-pair copper cables and deliver cost effective solutions to these applications using our existing technology."
Applications such as server and gateway connectivity in data centers, storage area networks and switch aggregation require 10 Gigabit links.
"Siemon is leading the industry for 10 Gigabit transmission in data centers as well as applications that extend from the data center to the desktop," says Robert Carlson, The Siemon Company's vice president of global marketing. "Siemon is actively involved in the 10G IEEE 802.3an Task Force and its Category 7/class F TERA system will support 10G Ethernet over a full 100-meter, 4-connector channel model connecting data centers to enterprise network users."
The MY3124 is a XAUI-to-XAUI Retiming device that has two identical 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interfaces. The device has programmable data rates with an operating range from 1Gbps up to 3.1875Gbps.
The MY3124 is intended to drive extended distances for point-to-point communications in applications requiring 10 Gigabit over copper and fiber links.
The Siemon TERA, Category 7/class F cabling system exceeds the requirements specified in the second edition of ISO/IEC 11801, "Information Technology Generic Cabling for Customer Premises." The standardized cabling is designed to provide higher bandwidth performance and superior noise immunity for storage, switch-to-switch and data center applications.
The four quadrant fully shielded TERA connector and PiMF (pairs in metal foil) fully shielded cable are designed to provide superior immunity to electromagnetic interference, alien crosstalk and other sources of noise which may be found in data center environments.
Mysticom Semiconductor, based in Mountain View, CA, manufactures high speed communication integrated circuits.
The Siemon Company, based in Watertown, CT, manufactures copper and optical fiber cabling systems and components. For more information visit www.siemon.com.
