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1-VIA Active Optical Cable (AOC) products

Active Optical Cable (AOC) Market

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Key advantages of AOC application

  • Increases both reach and bandwidth

  • Ensures transport reliability

  • Provides controlled EMI/RFI exposure

  • Delivers a lower bit error rate (BER) of 10⁻¹⁵, improving transmission reliability

  • Offers enhanced versatility with thinner and lighter cables

AOCs are designed to support a wide range of protocols, including SFP+, Ethernet, and InfiniBand.

Supported protocols for a typical 40Gb/s QSFP+ AOC

  • Multirate: Supports speeds ranging from 1.0 Gb/s to 10.3125 Gb/s per lane, depending on the application

  • 4-channel full-duplex active optical cable transceiver

  • InfiniBand: SDR (2.5 Gb/s), DDR (5 Gb/s), QDR (10 Gb/s)

  • Ethernet: 10 Gb, 40 Gb

  • Fibre channel: 8 Gb, 10 Gb

  • SAS/SATA: 3 Gb, 6 Gb

  • Fibre channel storage area network (SAN): 10G, 20G, 40G

  • Myrinet: 40 Gb

AOC technology applications

AOC technology is widely deployed in various data center applications, including hubs, optical backplanes, rack-to-rack connections, routers, storage, switches, servers, and more.

Target markets and applications for AOCs

  • Mainframes

  • High-performance computing

  • HDTV

  • High-performance personal computers (PCs)

  • Consumer electronics

Applications within the AOC market by bus interface

  • InfiniBand

  • HDMI

  • USB

  • DisplayPort (VESA)

Active optical cable (AOC) technology

AOC technology replaces traditional copper cables by using optical fiber between connectors to transmit the same electrical signals. By converting electrical signals to optical at the cable ends, AOCs enable data centers to significantly enhance both speed and distance capabilities while maintaining full interface compatibility.

1-VIA Active Optical Cable (AOC) diagram

Key advantages of AOC application

  • Increases both reach and bandwidth

  • Ensures transport reliability

  • Provides controlled EMI/RFI exposure

  • Delivers a lower bit error rate (BER) of 10⁻¹⁵, improving transmission reliability

  • Offers enhanced versatility with thinner and lighter cables

AOCs are designed to support a wide range of protocols, including SFP+, Ethernet, and InfiniBand.

Supported protocols for a typical 40Gb/s QSFP+ AOC

  • Multirate: Supports speeds ranging from 1.0 Gb/s to 10.3125 Gb/s per lane, depending on the application

  • 4-channel full-duplex active optical cable transceiver

  • InfiniBand: SDR (2.5 Gb/s), DDR (5 Gb/s), QDR (10 Gb/s)

  • Ethernet: 10 Gb, 40 Gb

  • Fibre channel: 8 Gb, 10 Gb

  • SAS/SATA: 3 Gb, 6 Gb

  • Fiber channel storage area network (SAN): 10G, 20G, 40G

  • Myrinet: 40 Gb

AOC technology applications

AOC technology is widely deployed in various data center applications, including hubs, optical backplanes, rack-to-rack connections, routers, storage, switches, servers, and more.

Target markets and applications for AOCs

  • Mainframes

  • High-performance computing

  • HDTV

  • High-performance personal computers (PCs)

  • Consumer electronics

Applications within the AOC market by bus interface

  • InfiniBand

  • HDMI

  • USB

  • DisplayPort (VESA)

Our range of Industry-leading AOC products designed to enable next generation connectivity at ultra-high-speed and ultra-low-power for data centers all around the world.

High density QSFP+ connector

1-VIA Optical Transceiver
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