4X & 12X Cable Assemblies

4x/12x SFF8470 Cable Assemblies

Meritec offers a comprehensive line of cable assemblies to support InfiniBand architecture specifications at Single, Double and Quad Data Rates and other industry standard interfaces for high speed data transfer applications that include 10G Ethernet-CX4, 40G Ethernet-CX4, 10G FibreChannel, Serial ATA (SATA), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and 10G Myrinet. These cables are also suitable for PCI-Express and Serial RapidIO interconnect applications. Meritec's offering supports channel-based switched fabric IO technology and industry standards for continuous flow serial or parallel link computing. Data rates of 3.2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, and 20G per lane are achievable at various lengths.
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NX+ Test Suite-Infiniband/CX4

Meritec® Infiniband® (IB) Test Suites allow for high bandwidth testing and performance validation of IB copper cable assemblies. The test boards utilize the highest quality PCB materials and components allowing for smooth impedance profiling and minimal crosstalk through the entire signal path.
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4X Low-Profile/Belly-to-Belly

This new Meritec 4X cable assembly offers a unique profile that will allow for a stackable interconnection of two 4X cable assemblies to two receptacles - one on top of the other or belly-to-belly - in a 1U form factor chassis. Meritec's cable assemblies continue to feature their Direct Attach technology which makes their industry leading electrical performance possible.
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Off the Shelf 4X Assemblies

Meritec offers a variety of RoHS compliant 4X (SFF8470) cable assemblies designed to support both InfiniBand and Ethernet-CX4 standards. These cables are RoHS compliant and are in stock for immediate shipment. The current stocked product offering is available in 30 awg, 28 awg, 26 awg and 24 awg Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH) cable with latch actuator. For customer specific or application specific lengths and options, please contact Customer Service at 888-MERITEC (888-637-4832) for price and availability.
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NX+ Board Mount Receptacle

Meritec's NX+ brand product family includes PCB surface mount, SFF-8470 and SFF-8473 IO connector receptacles that mate with all SFF-8470 cable assemblies and offer improved crosstalk performed at InfiniBand 5G DDR, 10G QDR, and the developing 20G EDR data rates.
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Mini-SAS to SAS with LSZH

Meritec's Mini-SAS (SFF-8088) to SAS (SFF-8470) LSZH cable assemblies support differential pair signaling with low-skew pairs and with shielding for maximum EMI/RFI protection. Meritec's cable technology allows data rates at 3.0 Gb/s and meets or exceeds SAS-2 requirements. Reduced crosstalk and low insertion loss enhance the scalability.
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Rugged 4X Circular Assembly

DISCONTINUED:  Replaced by Meritec's HERCULES

Meritec's Rugged 4X Circular will be phased out in the coming months.  Meritec's HERCULES Cabling System will replace the current 4X solution. HERCULES will meet and exceed your expectations, with its high-speed, rugged traits...there is nothing else available in today's industry.  Meeting many protocols such at Ethernet, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, SAS, InfiniBand, PCIexpress Gen 2, Serial I/O, SATA and more. Please email us at info@meritec.com and refer to "HERCULES" in the subject line so that we can direct you to the product manager associated with the HERCULES product.  The "Rugged 4X" informational sheets are still available below, for any HERCULES literature please follow the links to the HERCULES catalog page.
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HSSDC2

Meritec offers a robust HSSDC-2 cable assembly product family. These cable assemblies meet the requirements for ANSI T11 FibreChannel industry standards and InfiniBand Trade Association consortium standards.
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4X/12X Copper Mesh Assembly

The image shown is typical of a Copper Mesh Assembly, sometimes referred to as a Backplane Extender or simply as a Daisy Chain assembly, using the Meritec 4X or 12X connectors (12X shown). These assemblies eliminate the need to pass point-to-point signals throughout the backplane and can possibly reduce layer count in the backplane. The configurations can range from the lowest level at 1X to highest level at 12X by using either 4X or 12X backshells. Each individual cable length is a 4X cable (three to a 12X backshell). Each backshell can be selectively loaded to accommodate customer specific applications. These assemblies are capable of data rates such as InfiniBand through QDR, CX4, SAS and RapidIO. For additional information please contact Ken Braund, Business Manager, NX Products.

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