Corning Launches Optical Cable Assemblies Built For 21st Century Data Centers
The cabling solution is capable of sending up to 1.6 terabits per second of data at distances of up to 300 meters.
Corning Incorporated has announced the availability of its high-speed MXC™ optical cable assembly to support Intel® Silicon Photonics. Intel’s breakthrough technology delivers optimum performance and energy efficiency within the data center. Corning’s innovative cabling solution is capable of sending up to 1.6 terabits per second of data at distances of up to 300 meters.
Every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created with 90 percent of the world’s data created in the last two years alone. To support this tremendous surge in traffic, next-generation data centers will require full-optical connectivity – not just in the backbone and cross connects deployed in today’s data centers – but all the way to server ports which typically use copper, resulting in slower downlinks.