Lane Extenders for Fibre Channel and Storage Applications
Storage Area Networks (SANs) are gaining acceptance in large-scale enterprises, as well as media and entertainment applications such as video networks. Fibre Channel is a multigigabit speed technology which is most common in SANs. Outside these large networks, serial high-speed protocols such as SATA and SAS are used for data transfer between storage devices. As with all other data communication protocols, the growth of datacenters is limited by interconnect reach. Fiber optical interconnects common in other communication standards are generally too costly for storage applications, and in case of SAS and SATA they do not easily support all the required protocol features.
Quellan’s QLx Quad Lane Extenders optimized for storage applications serve next generation solutions for backplanes, line cards, as well as active copper cables that drastically improve signal integrity of serial high-speed interconnects, extend interconnect reach over standard passive cable, while presenting an economical and low-power alternative to fiber optic interconnects. In addition, Quellan has taken a lead in the industry to ensure that its equalizers support SAS and SATA out-of-band (OOB) signaling requirements.
DESIGN BENEFITS
- 300% signal reach extension
- Thinner, smaller copper cable gauge
- Use of cost effective FR4 PCB laminates
- Use of simple ASICS with no digital signal processing
- Extends the life of legacy platforms
END-USER BENEFITS
- Efficiently maximize data center connectivity
- Lower data center operation costs
- Dramatically reduced power consumption
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