• July 01. 2021

We all know AOC active optical cables, but have you heard of AEC active cables? Today, ETU-LINK will introduce to you what is AEC active cable and what are its advantages?     The AEC active cable is issued by the HiWire Alliance, and the HiWire AEC specification defines the standard for basic electrical and mechanical specifications. AEC active cable supports transmission rates of 100G,...

• April 30. 2021

10G SFP+ direct attach cable is a common cable for data center overhead cabling, which is used to connect small access switches and servers. 10G SFP+ direct attach cable is a low cost solution instead of optical module and AOC active optical cable. It has the advantages of low power consumption and low cost. It is an ideal choice for the connection between server and switch to ...

• April 22. 2021

The QSFP28 package has become a mainstream 100G optical module with smaller size, power consumption and price advantages. In practical applications, how should we solve the interconnection requirements of 100G ports and 40G, 25G, and 10G ports? Below, ETU-LINK will introduce several common solutions to you.   QSFP28 port interconnects with QSFP+ port We need to change the switch port configur...

• April 16. 2021

At present, the global network traffic is rising, and users need more bandwidth to meet the application requirements, which promotes the wide application of 400G Ethernet in large data centers. As the key hardware equipment of optical network interconnection in data center, 400G optical module also has a good development prospect. More and more network communication equipment manufacturers, c...

• January 09. 2021

As the internal traffic of the Internet giant's data center increases nearly 100% every year, many giants will seek 200G optical module to solve the growing demand for data transmission. There are mainly two types of 200G optical modules: QSFP-DD and QSFP56. Among them, QSFP-DD refers to four channel small pluggable double density package, which is defined by QSFP-DD MSA group, which is twice the ...

• December 29. 2020

In data center cabling, AOC active optical cable and DAC high speed cable are both used for data center short distance server interconnection and server switch interconnection. Many engineers ask: What is AOC cable? What is DAC cable? What is the difference between AOC and DAC? When should I use AOC vs DAC? This article gives a full comparison of performance, distance, cost, weight, and applicatio...

• December 19. 2020

Data center computer room plays an important role in enterprise data processing and storage, but it is also accompanied by high energy consumption. Among them, the power consumption of network equipment such as switches accounts for 40% - 70% of the total power consumption. In addition, the power consumption of cooling and lighting equipment in the computer room makes up a very high proportion of ...

• October 09. 2020

With the rise of cloud computing, big data and mobile Internet, Internet traffic is increasing day by day. Therefore, the number of servers in global data centers is increasing, and the scale is also increasing. Data centers are also deploying to 100G Ethernet. Next, ETU-LINK will introduce the 100G Ethernet cabling scheme of the data center. At present, 100G data center network cabling transmissi...