Intel is set to speed up data transmission by providing MXC cables for use in data centers and with supercomputers. The company plans to start selling the high-speed cables later this year.
The cables are take advantage of silicon photonics technology, which uses light to move large volumes of data at high speeds through thin optical fibers.
The MXC cables require less power than copper cables to send electrical signals due at higher speeds. They are lower-costs and more energy-efficient, according to Intel.
Mario Paniccia
Mario Paniccia with a 1.6Tbps MXC cable (green) next to a 128Gbps PCI Express copper cable. Paniccia is an Intel Fellow and general manager of the Silicon Photonics Operations Organization.
Silicon photonics can enable a variety of different approaches to data center designs, the company said, including rack-scale architectures.
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The cables can transmit light over a distance of up to 300 meters at 25 Gbps, three times longer than many current technologies. The fibers have a tenth of the bend radius of traditional fibers, allowing the cables to navigate the sharp bends often seen in and around server racks. Corning will also make the ClearCurve LX Multimode Fiber available to other manufacturers.
The MXC cable packs in up to 64 fibers. That means the cables can transmit up to 1.6 terabits of data per second. At that speed, one would be able to download a two-hour high-definition movie with a 4 GB file size in 2 seconds.
The cables are take advantage of silicon photonics technology, which uses light to move large volumes of data at high speeds through thin optical fibers.
The MXC cables require less power than copper cables to send electrical signals due at higher speeds. They are lower-costs and more energy-efficient, according to Intel.
Mario Paniccia
Mario Paniccia with a 1.6Tbps MXC cable (green) next to a 128Gbps PCI Express copper cable. Paniccia is an Intel Fellow and general manager of the Silicon Photonics Operations Organization.
Silicon photonics can enable a variety of different approaches to data center designs, the company said, including rack-scale architectures.
features:
The cables can transmit light over a distance of up to 300 meters at 25 Gbps, three times longer than many current technologies. The fibers have a tenth of the bend radius of traditional fibers, allowing the cables to navigate the sharp bends often seen in and around server racks. Corning will also make the ClearCurve LX Multimode Fiber available to other manufacturers.
The MXC cable packs in up to 64 fibers. That means the cables can transmit up to 1.6 terabits of data per second. At that speed, one would be able to download a two-hour high-definition movie with a 4 GB file size in 2 seconds.
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