The advent of QSFP Active Copper Cable interconnects

The QSFP Active Copper Cable assemblies are high performance, cost effective I/O solutions for 40G LAN, HPC and SAN applications. QSFP+ copper modules allow hardware manufactures to achieve high port density, configurability and utilization at a very low cast and reduced power budget. The high speed cable assemblies meet and exceed Gigabit Ethernet , InfiniBand and Fibre Channel industry standard requirements for performance and reliability..Sopto unique quality passive water piping cable solutions provide power-efficient replacement for active power connection such as fiber optic cables. Optimizing systems to operate with Mellanox’s QSFP Active Copper Cable significantly reduce power consumption. Rigorous cable production testing ensures best out-of-the-box installation experience, performance and durability.QSFP Active Copper Cable are copper cables for data transmission that use a silicon chip (semiconductor) to boost the performance of the cable. Without a chip, a cable is considered a 'passive' cable. Passive cables are liable to degrade the data they carry, due to such "channel impairments" as attenuation, crosstalk and group velocity distortion. In active cables, one or several semiconductor chips are embedded in the cable to compensate for some or all of these impairments. This active boosting allows cables to be more compact, thinner, longer and transmit data faster than their passive equivalents.