IPtronics fuels Active Optical Cable implementation in the Data Center
Recession or not, IPtronics has experienced substantial increase in demand for 4ch and 12ch solutions
IPtronics is pleased to announce a substantial demand for its silicon solutions for 40 and 120 gigabit/s parallel optical interconnects.
Analyst reports upon analyst reports (Ovum RHK, IGI, Lightcounting and more) have underlined a clear trend in the data center, namely that Active Optical Cables are becoming the interconnect of choice in high speed data centers and HPC clusters. The continuous increase in I/O bandwidth combined with multi-core CPU performance has led to an I/O gap that can no longer be served with copper solutions due to inherent power, distance and bandwidth challenges.
Mass implementation of Active Optical Cables has been characterized by the quest for the best USD/Gbps ratio. Subsequently, we have seen a sharp increase in 40G QDR over 20G DDR requirements as well as 12 channel applications where our silicon enables modules operating up to and beyond 150Gbps.
Our large order intake for our flipchip enabled 4 and 12 channel products clearly indicates that our lead customers have been very successful in both the 40G QDR space as well as the 12 channel CXP space. Based on critical mass, IPtronics will be able to offer new and existing customers economies of scale benefits. IPtronics will continue investing in fine tuning production in order to continuously offer the best price/performance ratio
Jesper Bek, CEO IPtronics Inc says, "I am proud that IPtronics is powering the parallel optical interconnect market and that IPtronics remains the leading vendor of merchant silicon offering the highest bit rates and lowest power alternatives. IPtronics has been successful in winning both captive and merchant silicon sockets with our competitive silicon in key applications targeted at the leading data center, server and HPC manufacturers, and our flipchip enabled devices have enabled our customers to achieve a very cost effective assembly process"
IPtronics targets the 4 channel solutions at Infiniband DDR & QDR QSFP modules, Active Optical Cables, 40GBASE-SR4, video applications and proprietary solutions. The 12 channel solutions cater to SNAP12, CXP, and 100GBASE-SR10. IPtronics expects that the solder bump technology will be widely used in optical subassemblies, also known as optical engines, for the above applications.
Going beyond our existing, fully available solutions, IPtronics has demonstrated 16Gbps per channel operation and will be bringing new devices for the consumer space on the market in the near future
The company operates from its headquarters in Roskilde, Denmark and its US operations, IPtronics Inc. based in Menlo Park, CA.
IPtronics will exhibit at ECOC in Vienna September 21st thru 23rd 2009