The new patent covers all fiber optic active cable applications and is believed to be fundamental to current and future market segments and platforms related to data communications links between information systems. The new patent’s US Patent No. is 7,494,287 B2.
Typical systems communicate via electrical host adapters that when connected to electro-optical transceivers mated with an optical fiber cable enable high bandwidth, low latency, lightweight and improved airflow data networks.
According to the Active Optical Cables Market Study 2009 by Information Gatekeepers Inc. the overall cumulative cable revenue from 2009 through 2013 is expected to exceed $8.5 billion. This represents a total of 1,040 million meter cables cumulative for the five years.
EMCORE previously announced supporting IBM’s use of 55 miles of our active optical fiber for the world’s first petaflop supercomputer, said Stephen Krasulick, executive vice president and general manager of EMCORE’s Fiber Optics Products division. Krasulick added, For next generation 40 Gb/s and greater bandwidth applications we expect active optical cables to replace copper cables and become the dominate connect solution.
EMCORE currently sells in high volume the ECC product platform for high-performance InfiniBand interconnects that operate at high-speed 20 Gb/s data rates and is sampling new 40 Gb/s data rate cables to major original equipment manufacturers. The company is demonstrating the new 40 Gb/s ECC at the OFC/NFOEC Conference and Exposition from March 24 to March 26, 2009 in San Diego, California.
EMCORE is a US-based provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems.
