Direct Attach Copper Twinax Cable

With the features of the low cost low power consumption and low latency it is an alternative to optical transceivers for short reach links in high speed interconnect applications such as data center hpc and enterprise network storage.

Direct attach copper twinax cable. It is designed for maximum equipment compatibility according to the multi source agreement msa sff 8436 specification. Direct attach twinax cables dacs 10g sfp dac hot. Dac 1 400g 10gtek direct attach cable dac is a twinax copper cable assembly. Cost effective cisco 10gbase cu sfp direct attach copper cable 10g sfp dac twinax cable for 10g ethernet passive or active up to 10 meters lifetime warranty 100 tested.

Active optical cables aocs 10g sfp aoc. Generally twinax cables shorter than 7 meters are passive and those longer than 7 meters are active but this may vary from vendor to vendor. Sfp direct attach copper dac is a popular choice for 10g ethernet reaches up to 10 m due to low latency and low cost. These copper cables are designed as a cost effective and lower power alternative to optical cable assemblies for short length interconnects between active network equipment.

A direct attach copper cable or a dac cable is a twinax copper cable that connects directly the ports or line cards within active equipment such as switches routers servers or data storage devices in a data network. Direct attach twinax cables dacs 10g sfp dac hot. Cable matters 10gbase cu passive direct attach copper twinax sfp cable sfp cable compatible with cisco ubiquiti huawei mikrotik netgear supermicro devices 2m sfp cable 10g sfp dac 0 5m 10gbase cu passive direct attach copper twinax cable for cisco sfp h10gb cu0 5m ubiquiti netgear d link qnap mikrotik supermicro zyxel linksys open switch devices. One major application is connecting network hardware through their sfp interfaces.

Hot pluggable sfp sfp form factor. The passive direct attach copper cables provide highly reliable communication links with superior bit error rate ber performance. Fs dac twinax cable solutions provide optical inter connectivity at data rates up to 400gb s and link distances up to 10m while achieving high port density configurability and utilization. 400g qsfp dd dac new.