The Amphenol Eyemax® High Speed 4X and 12X cable assembly provides serial copper links for industry-standard applications. This copper solution offers a low cost alternative to fiber optics for linking servers, storage and other data network or communication devices. The EyeMax® link solution is designed to provide a continuous flow of serial data and eliminiate data traffic congestion, which can occur among hardware devices that use a paraller bus structure.
Amphenol's Eyemax® cable assembly technology enables high-speed data transfers at >2.5Gb/s per link/channel for cable lengths up to 10 meters. In addition, the Eyemax® cable technology offers <4% cross-talk performance, greater bandwidth, and exceptional overall electrical performance to support switched fabric link capabilities and scalability within and between system hardware applications.
The mating interface used in Eyemax® cable and connector products has been selected as the external I/O copper link for the following industry standards:
- Infiniband®
- 10G Fibre Channel
- 10G Base-CX4 Ethernet
- SFF-8470 for Serial ATA
- Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS)