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Samtec To Demo PCIe® Gen 3 Over Fiber At SC14NEW ALBANY, Ind. --(Business Wire)-- Samtec, Inc., (www.samtec.com) today announced that it will demonstrate remote PCI (News - Alert) Express® (PCIe®) Gen 3 switching over fiber at the SC14 (Super Computing) Conference, November 17-20, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The system demonstrated achieves x8 PCIe® Gen 3 data rates (8 GT/s, 64 Gb/s aggregate) to transmit 4k UHD video 100 meters upstream from a PCIe®SSD to a Server and back downstream to a GPU linked to a 4k display. The demonstration uses Samtec's unique PCIEO Series Active Optical cable assembly based on low cost VCSEL technology. A miniature optical transceiver is located inside the plug at either end and performs the electrical-to-optical signal conversion over the thin optical fiber. The PCIEO Series is mating compatible with the iPass (News - Alert)™ copper high speed port form-factor allowing standard compliant support for clocking, sideband signaling and idle states. They are also a direct replacement for passive copper cables used for current PCIe® expansion and extension systems enabling simple upgrades for existing systems whilst enabling users to choose the I/O solution that fits their I/O application requirements. Common PCIe® Gen 3 applications include Remote I/O, GPGPU Computing, and Disaggregated Computing Architectures, to nae a few. Samtec PCIEO Gen 3 cabling extends its current PCIEO Gen 2 cabling line and is beyond a demonstration level product. It is available to ship today. Samtec is exhibiting at booth #956. For more information about SC14, go to http://sc14.supercomputing.org/.
PCI Express® and PCIe® are registered trademarks of PCI-SIG®. About Samtec, Inc. Samtec, Inc., is an international supplier of interconnects, cable assemblies, and design solutions. Products include high speed board level interconnects, high speed cable assemblies, and optical systems, IC packaging and microelectronics expertise. Samtec provides full channel system support, streamlining and optimizing the signal path, from the IC to the board and beyond. Samtec is the recognized service leader in the interconnect industry.
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